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Apt

2006

아파트

Directed by Ahn Byeong-ki

A young woman's curiosity propels her to investigate a series of strange deaths in her neighborhood.

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Geoffrey Broomer
Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★★½

Around Christmas, a lonely career woman (Ko So-young) takes to spying on her neighbours in the adjacent high rise – only to notice a pattern of them turning their lights off in unison, which is inevitably followed by a suicide. After a few deaths, the voyeur Nancy Drews the supernatural case together, and tries to bring it to the authorities’ attention... only to discover that peeping is frowned upon.

Korean Rear Window... with a ghost.

APT is one of the early adaptations of webtoonist Kang Full’s work, brought to the screen by K-Horror regular Ahn Byeong-ki (Nightmare, PHONE). Model Ko So-young as binocular sporting voyeur is a bit of a hurdle, and not the first suspension of disbelief the script…

Brian2359
Review by Brian2359 ★★★½ Liked

I watched Nightmare right before Apt, and one thing is clear—Ahn Byeong-ki must love J-horror. The two movies I’ve seen from him are clearly influenced by it. This isn’t a bad thing, as I personally love J-horror.

Apt tells the story of a haunted apartment complex, and while it features familiar tropes like a woman in a red dress and cops not believing the person who sees the ghost, I still enjoyed it. Not as much as Nightmare, but I liked it.

Overall, Apt is a 7/10 for me.

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felipe
Review by felipe ★★

APT, dirigido por Ahn Byeong-ki, começa com uma premissa curiosa: uma mulher solitária percebe que, todos os dias, exatamente às 9:56 da noite, as luzes de certos apartamentos se apagam e logo depois alguém morre. É um gancho interessante, e a ambientação contribui muito. O filme tem aquele clima gelado, silencioso e opressivo que o terror coreano dos anos 2000 sabia fazer bem.

Logo de cara, fica claro que ele bebe bastante da fonte de Ringu, tanto na estética quanto na estrutura da narrativa. Aquela sensação de maldição invisível, a protagonista tentando decifrar pistas enquanto a morte se aproxima, tudo remete diretamente a esse tipo de horror mais contemplativo e psicológico.

O filme começa promissor, mas rapidamente se acomoda nos…

🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝
Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 ★★½

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I know there are many out there on Letterboxd, like myself, who got swept along at the height of the J-horror and K-horror craze.

But I wonder just how many of us are ready to look back and realise that the vast majority of those films weren't very good. They really weren't. This film's director Byeong-ki Ahn was responsible for, in my opinion, one of the better films of that whole craze, Phone. Although most people would even disagree with me on that.

It's just remarkable how many of them got away with doing almost exactly the same things though. Take APT., a supernatural horror about a spate of 'suicides' in a Korean apartment block. It's the…

telejoseph
Review by telejoseph ★★

é interessante ver que a maioria dos diretores, sejam eles bons ou não, tem uma ideia diferente de montar um filme com a vibe de Janela Indiscreta, mas apesar da ideia ser até maneira, o filme peca na execução e fica clichê o bastante pra se tornar desinteressante e genérico, principalmente porque na época dele já surgia boas obras do terror coreano, e se comparar, esse acaba ficando bem abaixo

Maris
Review by Maris ★★½ 1

Idk what I expected going into this, but it was exactly what I expected

If it Bleeds/We can Kill it Loven
Review by If it Bleeds/We can Kill it Loven ★★★ Liked

Apt is a 2006 horror movie that's kind of like South Koreas own attempt at J-Horror and Hitchcock...think 'Ringu' meets 'Ju-On' meets 'One Missed Call' meets 'Rear Window'...
Again we get the girl with the long black hair who makes that sleep apnea/death rattle, choking sound--and a lot of other old J-horror tropes make cameos--plus there are times in this movie where it's edited weird or it felt like the version I was watching was missing some scenes...
About half way thru this story, I was kind of meh, but I really enjoyed the second half of this movie and the ending--I really wanted the whole movie to be about the girl in the wheelchair and her sociopath neighbors...

MY FAVORITE SCENE--Who was the ghost or girl in red from the subway?--what was the point of that scene?--her suicide had nothing to do with 9:56, did it?...damn it...

Kelly Magovern
Review by Kelly Magovern ★★★ Liked

A little generic as far as Asian horrors go, but still enjoyable if you're a fan of the genre.

Luka
Review by Luka ★★★½

Falls off a bit after the strong opening, but recovers quite nicely and remains engaging and effective for the majority of the runtime. Not necessarily that memorable though (I've seen it before and couldn't remember a single thing about it).

David Willis
Review by David Willis ★★

I've been meaning to check out some of Koreas take on the J-Horror craze in the late nineties, early two thousands and that yearning for my favourite comfort genre brought me to Apt, short for apartment (a missed opportunity to spell it like aPt or aPT.com or something dumb like that lol) last night. Directed by Ahn Byeong-ki, this manages to get most of the well-known J-Horror tropes in. We even get Kayako's eerie throat clicking sound from the Juon franchise. The premise is fairly decent; a young, ambitious Korean career woman (the phrase used in Japan for female salaryman) encounters a suicide on the, impossibly, deserted subway one night. Scrap that. She’s almost dragged onto the tracks by a…