4 April 2008

Recently widowed TV executive Kang Min awakes in a mysterious forest and heads towards a log cabin only to discover the body of a middle-aged man hacked to pieces and his own girlfriend mortally wounded. Thinking he has spotted the murderer, he gives chase only to be attacked himself.  When he regains consciousness in hospital he finds himself accused of murder. Unable to recall the face of the killer, So he returns to the forest and with help of a detective and a photographer who lives nearby, he tries to piece together the puzzle that will prove his innocence.

Following the success in Korea of his smash-hit comedy Flower Island (Ggot seom), director Il-gon Song, moved into darker territory with Spider Forest (Geomi sup), a psychological thriller with overtones of East European folklore. leads him into the darker territory of psychological thriller. With a cast that includes Gam Woo-Sung and Pak Won-Sang (both from R-Point) and the hauntingly beautiful Suh Jung (The Isle/Seom), Spider Forest is a challenging film which plays more with mystery than horror, creating a sense of intrigue, mixing narrative elements of Memento with the more aesthetic techniques of Eastern European directors such as Kieslowski or Tarkovsky. An adult fairy tale of compassion and deeper meaning, tinged with sadness and combining dreams with memories and as enigmatic as Ji-woon Kim's A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon).

Spider Forest has been announced for UK DVD release on 23rd June 2008 by Tartan at the RRP of £14.99. An anamorphic widescreen picture and choice of Dolby 2.0 stereo, Dolby 5.1 surround and DTS 5.1 surround will be joined by a trailer only.