Director Yeon Sang-ho quickly follows up his rage virus thriller Colony with Paradise Lost. Co-written with Ryu Yong-jae and based on the novel 'Black Inferno' by Oh Seong-eun, the film stars Kim Hyun-joo as So-young, a mother who is unexpectedly reunited with her son Sun-woo (Bae Hyun-sung) nine years after his unexplained disappearance. In the intervening years So-young comforted herself with an AI replica of her lost child, and now finds the real thing fails to live up to her fake creation.
Paradise Lost is in US cinemas from November 6th. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
From acclaimed master of Korean thriller cinema Yeon Sang-ho comes a gripping psychological mystery. Nine years after her son vanished in a tragic bus kidnapping, grieving mother So-young copes using alternate reality technology. When her missing son suddenly returns as a cold adult stranger, her world fractures between the real, distant man and the virtual child who needs her. So-young is forced into a devastating choice between truth and illusion.
