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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

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The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
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Rocco T. Thompson Rue Morgue Magazine A lean and mean feature that proves the increased mobility of the personal camera need not preclude the art of scare making. Jul 3, 2024 Full Review Rebecca Sayce Starburst This is the definition of terror: needling into your brain and never offering even a morsel of relief throughout its runtime. Rated: 5/5 Jun 27, 2024 Full Review William Schwartz HanCinema Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum is unapologetically a gimmick horror film, where the only relevant character trait is narcissism prefacing a cosmic reminder of just how insignificant any individual human life really is. Aug 20, 2019 Full Review Min-sik Yoon Korea Herald The blur between fiction and reality works well, but the problem is that it has been done before, and done well, several times since The Blair Witch Project popularized it in 1999. Jan 9, 2019 Full Review Ernesto Diezmartinez Cine Vértigo "A harmless but entertaining pop-corn movie". Rated: 1/4 Dec 22, 2018 Full Review Mabel Salinas Cine Premiere Beom-sik Jeong's film does not stagnate in the substitutes caused by sudden stridencies; his camera handling is intelligent, credible and the setting is crucial for the development of the story. [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Nov 26, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Yash B Found footage horror movies aren't necessarily a new concept at this point in time, but using a real location as the inspiration for "Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum" does make the film feel original. This movie has a good amount of setup which leads to an intense and terrifying finale. I watched this movie with a group of friends and genuinely think it would have been too scary for my taste otherwise. I do like how the movie has some mysterious elements, but I also felt it could have dived more into backstories of whatever presence was attacking the characters in the movie and felt more interesting from a story perspective. Nonetheless, I think the movie is fully functional as a thrill ride and has everything horror fanatics would want from a movie like this. Overall, it is a scary, unsettling, and engaging movie that kept me creeped out and was fun to watch with a large group. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/25 Full Review acsdoug D I think the "found footage" genre played itself out a long time ago, and for a while I thought this was just another "young people doing stupid things" horror movie. But at the midway point the movie produces some genuinely frightening images. There are enough of those to recommend the film. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/10/25 Full Review Steven Y Found footage horror isn't a new sub-genre, but it's difficult to find films that do anything new with the concept. Gonjiam:HA doesn't really go anywhere fresh and it is a little clumsy in some really important places, but it's generally quite a good attempt. The setting does the majority of the heavy lifting; an abandoned asylum is obviously a creepy environment, so the storytelling and the set-pieces are already massively enabled by that context. Visually it's impressive and the performances are fairly convincing, but, as is the case with most horror, it largely loses its footing in the final act and fails to deliver the punch it spent much of the film promising. Decent, if not at all remarkable. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/09/24 Full Review Zea Z worst movie ive ever watched in my whole life Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/23/24 Full Review Alejandro D Una película buena, recomendable para amantes del terror que buscan una nueva experiencia, buenas tomas de cámara que te generan una nueva experiencia de inmersión en la película. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/05/24 Full Review Eli B I myself am not the biggest found footage guy. But hot damn they knocked it out of the part. The screaming from the girls and the guys was kind of annoying but it's a solid movie all the way until 1 hour in and then it's spectacular Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/11/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
Director
Jung Bum-shik
Producer
Kim Wonguk
Distributor
Well Go USA
Production Co
Hive Media Corp.
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 13, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 18, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$111.2K
Runtime
1h 33m
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