H

you can’t spell Hell without it

Se7en Meets Silence of the Lambs

“What does the H stand for? Hair-raising, Harrowing, Heart-pounding.”
– Todd David Schwartz, CBS Radio

The deeply-tangled mystery surrounding a rash of vicious murders becomes more and more bewildering in H, a psychological thriller unraveling on DVD May 24th from Tartan Video’s Asia Extreme label.

Shin Hyun (Seung-woo Cho) walks into the local police station toting the mutilated bodies of six missing women, confesses to the murders and accepts his fate. A psychopathic serial killer is caught and the case closed. Or is it? One year later, the bodies of two high school girls and a pregnant woman are discovered, killed in the same manner.

Believed to be a copy-cat crime, detectives Kim Mi Yun (Jung-ah Yum, A Tale of Two Sisters) and Kang Tae Hyun (Jin-hee Ji), polar opposites both professionally and personally, are assigned to the case. As the investigation continues, new suspects are taken into custody, but the body count continues to rise. It soon seems that no one, not even the detectives themselves, are beyond suspicion.

Korean, with English and Spanish subtitles, H is presented in anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and DTS Surround Sound 5.1. Special DVD features include an alternate opening; original theatrical and teaser trailers; “Making Of” featurette; photo gallery; and trailers of Tartan Asia Extreme new releases.

All releases on the Asia Extreme label are supported by broad-based and multi-faceted consumer advertising campaigns; a comprehensive online viral marketing campaign; and a public relations push to English-, Spanish- and Asian-language media.

Tartan Video’s Asia Extreme is a premiere collection of stylish international cinema from the proven Asian horror genre which shocks, scares and astonishes in equal measure. In the U.K., Tartan has sold over $50 million of Asian product, which would equate to $100 million in the U.S., making it Britain’s leading independent film genre.
U.K.-based Tartan Films, formed in 1982, is one of Britain’s most respected distributors of films, both theatrically and on home video. Tartan U.S.A., headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., was launched in October 2004 with an eclectic slate of films from established auteurs and up-and-coming filmmakers. Look for a cutting-edge slate of innovative, acclaimed and award-winning feature films to be released theatrically by Tartan Films and to the home entertainment market by Tartan Video. From American independents’ fare to major film festival winners to the best of international cinema, they are films from around the world that entertain, provoke and inspire … and are sometimes controversial. Tartan Video is distributed exclusively by TLA Releasing. For more information, visit www.tartanvideousa.com

H
Tartan Video
Thriller/Foreign
Rated: R (Special Features Not Rated)
Language: Korean (English and Spanish Subtitles)
Format: DVD Only
Running Time: Approx. 106 Minutes (Plus Special Features)