Memories of Murder (2003)

Everyone has moments they’d like to forget, but a victim of a sex-homicide is deprived of the opportunity to let time do its miraculous healing. As a body count of viciously defiled and slain women rises, the two rural South Korean cops and the big-city specialist charged with bringing the killer to justice adopt increasingly more brutal tactics in Memories of Murder (2003). Based upon an actual series of grisly sex killings that terrorized the Korean countryside from 1986 through 1991, Memories of Murder brings to life the harrowing urgency of the investigative team, and also glimpses into the well of black humor that kept them from going insane while failure and shredded flesh taunted their futile moves.