A trailer has arrived for “The Handmaiden,” a stylish new revenge thriller from Korean director Park Chan-wook (“Stoker,” “Oldboy”). While the film is based on Sarah Waters’ 2002 crime novel “Fingersmith,” set during the Victorian era in Britain, Park has relocated the story to 1930s Korea “under Japanese colonialism,” IndieWire reports.

The film “follows Hideko (Kim Min-hee), a Japanese heiress searching for a husband to maintain her social standing and manage her estate. Devious con man Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) believes he’s the man for the job and hires Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) to pose as Hideko’s young maid in order to deceive her into marrying him. Unfortunately, the plan goes sideways when the two women fall for each other.”

The fast-paced trailer doesn’t include any dialogue, but leaves a memorable impression nonetheless. The scene snippets are sexually-charged with violent undercurrents. In her review of the film, The Hollywood Reporter’s Deborah Young praised the work for its “giddy mixture of historical romance and auteur eroticism… spiced with ghosts, horror, and S&M.”

“The Handmaiden” premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to strong reviews. It will screen at TIFF in September and hit theaters October 14.