Metaphysical horror movie from Korea. Korean cinema is famous for its mystery / horror movies and this is no exception. Filmed with animated cameras in a documentary style, and with a very dark style like REC, it gives a realism to the viewer. So a group of young people, youtubers, go live broadcasting to explore the legendary, haunted psychiatric asylum in Gon-ji-am. A rather dark and scary movie, as the team goes overnight to the remote and abandoned asylum to explore it, and its age-old interior, cold rooms and dark spaces create a very scary atmosphere to the viewer. Contributing to this is the horror on the actors' faces and the use of a moving camera that makes them all more realistic. The effects and the intensity that prevails intensify the terror even more. On the downside, the film unfortunately took too long to get into its main part and when the first indications started, as they admitted, they were fake to have views on Youtube... The film could have been 30 minutes shorter and have a small introduction so that it can enter the main part immediately without becoming boring to the viewer. Unfortunately about the first half of the movie is extremely boring, it is not worth more than 5/10, while the second half and especially the last part is worth 7/10 and is quite strong. Overall it is generally recommended, but they could remove most of the introduction which was boring.
Review of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
