Katalin Varga (DVD, Region B) Guillermo del Toro So you better watch out

So you better watch out

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Katalin Varga (DVD, Region B) Guillermo del Toro So you better watch outBanished by her husband and her village, Katalin Varga is left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son, Orbn. Taking Orbn with her under another pretence, Katalin travels through the Carpathians where she decides to reopen a sinister chapter from her past and take revenge. The hunt leads her to a place, she prayed eleven years prior, she would never set foot in again.