Product Details

• Actors: Kim Myeong-min, Kim Tae-woo, Kim Yu-mi, Yoo Jun-Sang, Jeong Yu-seok
• Directors: Lee Gyu-man
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Korean
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
• DVD Release Date: August 12, 2008
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0018PH3MO
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #105,580 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Due to inadequate use of anesthetics, a young boy experiences intra-operative awareness during his own heart surgery, hearing every sound and movement of the procedure. The little boy is severely traumatized from this horrific accident. As a result, he ends up brutally murdering a young girl soon after the incident...

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Stupid Cover Art for A Quality Film, October 14, 2008

By	Anticlimacus - See all my reviews

The marketing execs who approve the cover art of these South Korean DVD releases should be shot. Wide Awake (aka The Return) is not a cheap slasher as the cover depicts.

On the contrary, it's a very entertaining thriller with a lead antagonist who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after experiencing anesthetic awareness during a childhood surgury. This is chock-full of originality because the killer uses exotic medical tactics to dispatch his victims. The orchestration behind one particular murder is magnificent, going down as an instant classic in cinema. However, the final half hour drops the ball a bit with an unoriginal, cliched climax and a few too many twists that take the already stretched realism and throw it out the window. A better ending would have made this film critic-proof, but in its current state it still packs quite a punch.

Do yourself a favor and see this. It's quality entertainment.