Who let the dogs out? And who knew that a 20-year-old Bahamian pop hit would drive the mystery behind a frenzied Korean creature feature/disaster drama mash-up that screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival?

While driving his daughter to the airport one night, the ambitious deputy director of Korea’s security department has a lot on his mind. He’s cooking up schemes to keep his boss in the lead in the upcoming presidential race.

A massive pileup on the 13-mile bridge that connects Incheon Airport to the mainland stops them dead in their tracks, but he sniffs another PR opportunity. He can’t stop his political scheming, even when a battalion of top-secret, government-trained dogs escapes on the same bridge.

The neglected daughter-workaholic dad dynamic of TRAIN TO BUSAN (the daughters in both films are even played by the same actress, Kim Su-an) is ported over to this taut, rip-roaring slice of man vs. dog mayhem as military and civilian survivors battle themselves and the fanged predators suddenly prowling a suspension bridge that could collapse at any moment.

Lee Sun-kyun of PARASITE leads the cast of this disaster spectacle suffused with “biting” political satire. PROJECT SILENCE roars in with a quick and clear setup and feeds us just enough emotional juice to keep us invested in the fates of this motley crew fighting for their lives, which include a wily tow-truck driver and a woman golfer nervous about her upcoming competitions — in a clear nod to fellow Korean creature feature delight THE HOST. (PIERCE CONRAN)