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.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.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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Lee Seung-wook
- Seung-wook
- (as Seung-Wook Lee)
Mun Ye-won
- Charlotte
- (as Ye-Won Mun)
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It's definitely worth the watch if that's what you wanna know. The acting was great and funny! I felt like I actually cared for the characters. The premise is very interesting, but some scenes seem inspired by Grave Encounters. I was instantly hooked from the start but towards the end, things stopped making sense... I felt like they rushed it and didn't bother to explain anything... but it was a fun movie!
If you're a fan of scary B movies, the scares are amazing on the second half. I really hate the blacking out/glitching effect the movie did. I enjoyed watching it when everything rolled out.
Normally I am critical of found-footage horror, as it usually is unnecessary and brings nothing more to the story. Usually found-footage movies would do better as a "regular" movie. This is not the case for Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. With new cutting-edge technology, and a reason as to why the actors know how to work a camera, it serves this movies purpose excellent. There is little shaky-cam and other "effects" that you would usually see in found-footage, which in my opinion ruins the movie.
The story itself is pretty standard, 7 young "ghost hunters" enter an old insane asylum, mainly for views and profit, which makes it more realistic than other similar movies. The pacing of the movie is pretty slow, and nothing really happens for the first half, but it's worth it!
I originally wanted to give this a 6, but considering this is a horror movie, and one of the scariest of it's sub-genre I've ever seen, I bumped it up to a 7. If you want a scary movie without too much plot, this is the movie for you.
The story itself is pretty standard, 7 young "ghost hunters" enter an old insane asylum, mainly for views and profit, which makes it more realistic than other similar movies. The pacing of the movie is pretty slow, and nothing really happens for the first half, but it's worth it!
I originally wanted to give this a 6, but considering this is a horror movie, and one of the scariest of it's sub-genre I've ever seen, I bumped it up to a 7. If you want a scary movie without too much plot, this is the movie for you.
The movie started off pretty slow. Once it started ramping up though it definitely moved pretty quickly. I would say probably only the last half an hour was the really creepy part, but it was definitely worth the watch. It was a little hard to follow at certain times because the cameras keep flickering and turning off and you think that it's something wrong with your TV or Internet, but that's the way they have the movie set up. I appreciate it that there were English subtitles and those subtitles included telling us what the words on the doors meant as well so we knew which room they were going into.
You start to hate one of the characters about halfway through and you hope that they die through the rest of the movie. A good "found footage" movie.
My son and I have been looking for horror movies that will actually scare us and this one definitely creeped us out enough to where we had to watch TikTok for a little bit afterwards to take our mind off of it.
You start to hate one of the characters about halfway through and you hope that they die through the rest of the movie. A good "found footage" movie.
My son and I have been looking for horror movies that will actually scare us and this one definitely creeped us out enough to where we had to watch TikTok for a little bit afterwards to take our mind off of it.
This is a found footage film. It's not much different than others out there but it did a great job of building tension once it got going. I think that it should have moved a bit faster at the beginning.
I was disappointed that there wasn't much of a story about the hauntings. It seemed like it only gave enough information to imply that it might have been haunted. I wanted more details.
I thought it had a couple of creepy moments and overall, I enjoyed it.
I was disappointed that there wasn't much of a story about the hauntings. It seemed like it only gave enough information to imply that it might have been haunted. I wanted more details.
I thought it had a couple of creepy moments and overall, I enjoyed it.
Did you know
- TriviaThe filmmakers were unable to get permission from the South Korean government to film in the actual hospital, so scenes in the film set in Gonjiam were actually filmed in the National Maritime High School in Busan, with the production team adhering closely to the floor plan of the hospital to recreate exactly the same exterior and hallways.
- GoofsAt the start of the film, they meet in a restaurant for the first time. Yet on the way to the hospital, they refer to a previous trip. In the footage of everyone jumping into the water, it's all the same faces that supposedly just met. * EDIT - they referred to a previous trip & then *all of them that just met* went jumping into the water. They talked about doing it & then they did it. Not a goof.
- ConnectionsReferences Retour à la maison de l'horreur (2007)
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- Also known as
- Gonjiam: hospital maldito
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- Gross US & Canada
- $115,252
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $19,017
- Apr 15, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $21,180,050
- Runtime
- 1h 35m(95 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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