Il-gon Song	...	(Director)
Il-gon Song	...	(Writer)
Woo-seong Kam	...	Kang Min
Jung Suh	...	Min Su-jin
Kyeong-heon Kang	...	Hwang, Su-yeong
Hyeong-seong Jang	...	Choi, Seong-hyeon
Byung-ho Son	...	Kim Cheol-ju
Seung-kil Jeong	...
Won-sang Park	...
Yeong Yun	...
Yeong-jae Kim	...
Seong-cheol Jang	...
Min-hwa Yun	...	Composer
Cheol-ju Kim	...	Cinematographer

Comments: I had to watch this film once, visit IMDb and read all I could from other folks attempting to explain it, then watch it again before arriving at a score of 5. The first viewing left me bewildered. I was pissed that I didn't get it because I liked watching it so much.

The Spider Forest is a place where the souls of those who die alone or unloved live in limbo as spiders until someone remembers them. That's a kinda cool premise. The Spider Forest is also the cobwebbed memories each of us navigate as we attempt to deal with trauma, guilt, shame, etc. Maybe.

This is one of those Korean films which could not exist or be told in linear narrative. There are shots and scenes that come out of nowhere and seem not to touch anything around them until much later in the movie and it is frustrating. So why watch it again? As one can imagine, these out-of-nowhere scenes look completely different after you've been to the end once. All the nuances of the very simple story blossom the second time through.

The film is beautifully shot and the acting top notch. SPOILER ALERT !! Jung Suh, from Green Chair and the Isle is beautiful and captivating in a very understated performance in dual roles, which, by the way, is a huge spoiler (notice this info is absent from the credits) that doesn't spoil a thing. This film is incredibly complex without being obtuse. It is more of a journey than a story. I will be watching it many more times.

Summary: TV Producer Kang Min (Kam Woo-Sung) enters Spider Forest for a documentary. He enters a cabin and discovers two brutally murdered bodies. One is his girlfriend Hwang Soo-Young (Kang Kyeong-Heon) and the other is his colleague Choi Jong-Pil (Cho Sung-Ha). Kang Min also senses someone watching him and runs after that person into to the forest. He's soon knocked unconscious. When he awakens again he continues his chase into a tunnel. Kang Min is then struck by a speeding car.

Two weeks later, Kang Min awakes from a coma. Kang Min must piece back together his memory. What really happened in the forest?



Deep in the forest, a man and woman have been brutally attacked in a cabin and left to die. Arriving too late, Kang chases the killer only to be hit by a speeding car. Barely surviving surgery, he now finds himself a prime suspect. He cannot shake the feeling that there are strange gaps in his memory regarding that night and the killer's identity. While police set out to confirm his story, he begins his own quest to remember the truth about the murder and himself.