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Entering a hut somewhere in the woods, Kang Min (Kam Woo-seong) finds his
girlfriend Su-Young (Kang Kyeong-heon) & her boss Choi (Jang Hyeon-seong)
brutally slaughtered. What's more, he also finds the killer is still in the
hut, & gives him a chase through the woods, but is knocked out by him ...
Coming back to his senses, he soon finds himself in a tunnel ... & is
run over by a car, & left to die. Fortunately another car comes by &
takes him to a hospital, where he is saved from dieing but spends the next
fortnight in a coma.
Waking up he asks his cop/friend Kim (Son Byung-ho)to look for the corpses
in the hut, & despite Kim doesn't really believe the story of the murders,
claiming it on posttraumatic stres, he finds the 2 corpses there.
Kang Min no tells him his tale, of how he after the death of his first wife
Eun-ah really loost it & was a drinking wreck, until Su-young, who worked
for the same tv-statin as he did, came along & accpted him as the loser he
was, & soon they became a couple. However, due to his carefree attitude,
Kang Min is soon fired from the station ... which finally gives hm a boost to
ask Su-young to marry him, & to do the documentary about a haunted forest,
the Spider Forest, he always wanted to do ...
& for his documentary on Spider Forest he even has a new clue to follow
up on, sent to him by photoshop owner Kim Su-Jin (Suh Jung) who lives near the
forest. But at that time Kang Min also gets weird phonecalls, & someone
sends him an undeveloped roll of film ...
Kang Min then went to spider forest, & to the hut where he later found
the corpses, & claims he saw them fucking, but left the scene when he
noticed someone else in the woods, but hiding.
Next day he went to Su-jin's photoshop where she told him a spooky story
about the forest, in which a boy & a girl witnessed the girl's father
slaughtering her mother & her lover, then slaughtering the girl while the
boy lost all his memory of the ncident.
When Min Kang develops the photos in Su-jin's photoshop, he realizes these
were the last photos his wife had taken, & that supposedly crashed in the
plane, with her ...
Only then did he go back & found Su-young killed ...
Back in the now, the police tries to check up on Min Kang's story, that
proves to have inconsistencies on all corners though, as Su-jin has died, &
already years ago, & against all susppicions was not killed by her fatther
like in the story she told either but died from pneumonia. & the photoshop
did not belong to her at all, but to Kang Min's own father ...
Kang Min has meanwhile escaped the hospital & gone to Spider Forest on
his own ... only to realize it was indeed him who killed Choi & Su young in
a fit of rage, but his mind has played tricks on him, mixing memories from
different times to obscure the memory ...
Deliberately slow-moving thriller that is not so much relying on shock
effects but on its creepy atmosphere & its overall concept that nothing is
what it seems. However, every now & again, the film takes just one surprise
plottwist too many for its own good, so some of the revelations that are
supposed to come as a surprise have already become painfully obvious during the
proceedings (e.g. that photoshop girl Su-jin is not real but only a figment of
his imagination - or a ghost -, & most of all, that he himself is the
killer). However that all said, it's still a entertaining & spooky film.
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