On the heels of the first official poster, Spike Lee‘s remake of Chan Wook-Park‘s Korean cult classic Oldboy gets a entrail-smattered red band trailer. Hoping to win over newcomers to the film and hopefully capture the attention of purists, Lee’s film is already divisive in nature. Personally, I hold no grudge against remakes of foreign films. They’ve given us the likes of The Departed, 12 Monkeys, The Ring, Let Me In, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, amongst many others.

Josh Brolin stars and the synopsis is as follows:

“An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAPHmgz4fok

Oldboy is directed by Spike Lee and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Imperioli. It hits theaters on October 25.