Directed by Il-gon Song
Country of Origin: South Korea
After being brutally attacked in the Spider Forest (every town has one), Kang Min (Woo-seong Kam), an editor at a TV station, wanders into the road and is struck by a car. While recovering in the hospital, he finds himself the chief suspect in the murder investigation of two of his coworkers. Kang must return to Spider Forest to find out the truth even if it kills him. Maybe it’s that pesky head injury or maybe Kang was just a little crazy to begin with, but he’s having trouble distinguishing between reality and delusion. This is gonna be fun! (Not really.)
One thing that really surprised me about Spider Forest is the music score. At first, it had some annoying stingers and I was like “Oh boy, here we go.” And then the music takes a giallo-style turn with some harpsichord and I was back on board. With a bit of a David Lynch influence (apple-chomping sex fiend!) and a labyrinthine plot with the past and present overlapping one another, there’s a lot to unpack in this film. While it has horror elements such as an unreasonable number of spiders crawling on corpses, this is a very bleak but engaging thriller through and through. Recommended!
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