Spider Forest

Spider Forest
Hangul 거미숲
Revised Romanization Geomisup
McCune–Reischauer Kŏmisup
Directed by Song Il-gon
Produced by Ahn Min-jun
Written by Song Il-gon
Starring Kam Woo-sung
Kang Kyeong-heon
Music by Yun Min-hwa
Cinematography Kim Cheol-ju
Edited by Choi Jae-geun
Distributed by Chungeorahm
Release dates
  • September 3, 2004 (2004-09-03)
Running time
 113 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Budget $1,300,000

Spider Forest (Hangul: 거미숲; RR: Geomi sup) is a 2004 South Korean psychological thriller written and directed by Song Il-gon.

Plot

Awaking alone in the middle of a dark forest, Kang Min sees a secluded cabin nearby and wanders towards it. Upon entering the small home, he is shocked to discover a brutal, bloody crime had taken place. A man, hacked repeatedly by a sickle, lies on the floor, dead. Min hears a noise nearby and discovers his girlfriend Su-Young, stabbed and nearly dead, stammering something about "spiders."

Before he could save his loved one, Min is caught off guard by the killer who unexpectedly emerges and dashes out of the cabin. Min grabs the sickle and pursues the dark figure through the shadowy woods of the Spider Forest, only to be temporarily knocked out with a blunt blow to the face. Min, being disoriented and slightly dazed, sees the killer enter into a tunnel on a road nearby and stumbles after him. Yet upon entering the tunnel, a speeding SUV collides with Min and throws him to the ground, severely injured by the impact.

As he lies on the pavement with his blood streaming across the ground, the dark figure approaches Min and stands mere inches away, as if mocking his inability to capture him. Min extends his arm, desperately trying to grab him, but in vain and he soon loses consciousness...

Min wakes-up fourteen days later at a local hospital with his head heavily bandaged. His friend, a police detective named Choi, is at his bedside to both comfort and question him about the murders. Min discovers that he, in fact, is the prime suspect of the killings due to his fingerprints being on the sickle that he picked up and his relationship with the victims. Choi, wanting to believe in his friend's innocence, asks Min to tell him everything that had happened leading up to the brutal crime. Weaving in and out of consciousness, Min tries to reconstruct the bizarre events, but it proves to be a too difficult task. Min finds that there are some details he cannot remember, while other details he can't even be sure they actually happened. The boundary between dreams and reality become blurred as he tries to piece together his enigmatic past in an effort to complete a puzzle that will, hopefully, prove his innocence...

Cast

Screenplay

“ I started to write about one man's real story: how he killed two people, how he grew up, what happened with his wife, what he saw when he was young, his first girlfriend. The second story is when he wakes up. It's another story, about how he desires and how he wants to be. It's like his dream. Desire changes the reality … into the unreal. That's why I had the idea to write two stories about this character. And then I started to mix what was real and what was his dream, what he really wants. I started to make it a mystery as well. But we have to know about his unconscious, that's why I had to transfer or take out the real facts and start to re-mix the stories. And that's why it took so long to write the script. It was a painful time for me. ”
— Song Il-gon, Don't Forget Him

When He's Cool: An Interview with Song Il-gon.

Budget issues

Actors' pay

Box office

Critical response

Domestic

International

Film festivals

Release dates

Awards

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 James Brown, Don't Forget Him When He's Cool, Senses of Cinema.
  2. ↑ Ranked Box-Office Results (2004), Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved on March 5, 2008.
  3. ↑ Joon Soh, 'Spider Forest' Weaves Tangled Web The Korean Times.
  4. ↑ Seung-Jae Lee, A Mystery Thriller: "Spider Forest" Dong-A Daily News.
  5. ↑ Nayman, Adam (September 9, 2004). "A fest for the eyes". Eye Weekly. Archived from the original on 2004-09-14. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
  6. ↑ Todd Brown, TIFF Report Twitch.
  7. ↑ Josh Ralske, Allmovie Synopsis allmovie.com.
  8. 1 2 Release Dates imdb.com.
  9. ↑ Awards & Nominations imdb.com.
  10. ↑ Awards cinemasie.com
  11. ↑ Paolo Bertolin and Tom Giammarco, Korean Cinema in 2004: Impressions and Top-Ten Lists Koreanfilm.org.

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