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Korean teen shocker “THE HUMAN TRAP” sets U.S. release date; trailer & poster

Don’t go in the woods–especially when they’re inhabited by a crazed doctor.

Cinephobia has announced that it will bring the South Korean horror film THE HUMAN TRAP (previously titled simply THE TRAP) to Amazon Prime and other VOD/streaming platforms January 12. Written and directed by Lee Moon-young, it stars Kang Byeol, Park Yeon-woo, Kim Dong-ho, Kang Seung-hyun, Song Young-gyu, Moon Won-ju and Kim Ki-nam. The synopsis: “A group of naive teens whose hoped-for weekend outing turns into a deadly camping-trip-from-hell. Before they can sing the first stanza of ‘Kumbaya,’ the foursome are rounded up and taken to a makeshift medical lab where a deranged Christian ‘doctor’ and his evil assistant plan shocking medical experimentations on the captured teens. Infused with pitch-black humor, THE HUMAN TRAP unleashes waves of shocking violence as the terrified teens fight for their lives.”

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