Many will remember the 1996 film by Rob Cohen starring Sylvester Stallone which was so successful that year while in 2019, the Norwegian film “The Tunnel” was definitely a flop.

In between these two works we find "Tunnel" from 2016 by the Korean director Kim Seong-hun (who also writes the screenplay) who with this film will win the Valenciennes Festival and the Brussels BIFFF of following year.

Thanks to this work, the director began to be known and then achieved success with the horror-tinged TV series “Kingdom”, broadcast by Netflix in two seasons, which was considered a small pearl.

“Tunnel” has as its protagonist an actor known to the European public: Ha Jung-woo.

It's impossible not to remember his performance in “The Chaser” by Na Hong-jin or in “The Terror Live” by Byung-woo Kim or in the surprising “Mademoiselle” by Maestro Park-Chan Wook up to the recent and disappointing “Ashfall”, in short an actor of consummate experience who lends his face to Lee Jung-soo, a car salesman who has just concluded an excellent deal (he sold 8 cars in one go) and is about to return home to his little daughter and his wife Seyhun.

After filling up he takes the road that will take him home, a road that passes through the 2 km long Hodo Tunnel.

The man can't wait to inform his wife of his success at work and assures that he is about to bring his daughter a surprise: a beautiful cake just the way she likes it.

Once he enters the tunnel, after a few hundred meters the lighting suddenly goes out and Lee doesn't understand what is happening…