Hearing impaired Ju-young deals with ghosts and psychotic neighbours as she searches for her missing sister who vanished without leaving her apartment

Weird noises in the dark. An eerily relatable concept that we've all experienced when home alone, where our minds create an infinite number of explanations (mostly bad ones in my case). This flick takes it to the extreme by incorporating a random assortment of odd sounds outside of the ones that could be rationally explained. It was like, hey, real noises aren't enough; we gotta make up super weird sounding shit!💃

I figured Ju-young's deafness would play more of a part (making her more immune to the noise), but it's like it didn't make a difference as she…

Noise is an atmospheric slow-burn that leans more procedural than pulse-pounding, but if you stick with it, there’s a pretty satisfying payoff waiting at the end. The story follows a woman investigating the disappearance of her sister, moving into her apartment and slowly getting to know the neighbors—each of them holding a piece of the puzzle, or maybe just a few more questions.
It cleverly incorporates the protagonist’s hearing aids and speech recognition app into both the narrative and the scares and also plays with sound in creative, sometimes deeply unnerving ways. There’s one moment in particular that is genuinely ear-piercing. I’ve never had a film physically make me recoil from the sound design like that before. If you have…

eu odeio barulho tanto quanto o pessoal desse filme. A única diferença é que não chego ao ponto de ameaçar com uma faca ou avisos na porta, mas são detalhes tão pequenos que ninguém nota a diferença.

Ouvi falar desse filme ano passado, com altos elogios, inclusive. Chegou até a se tornar uma opção para eu ir ver no cinema. Não consegui ir, e acho que devo agradecer aos imprevistos que a vida ofereceu e impediram de eu ir. Porque, embora o filme tenha uma atmosfera interessante, com suspenses que fazem parecer algo gigante, no final ele consegue apenas causar frustração.

A história trabalha em cima do sumiço da Joo-hee e das incansáveis buscas por ela, que sua irmã Joo-young…

Score : 6.4/10 ✅

Seen at Fantasia International Film Festival 2025

-You have to be careful, everyone can hear each other.

Not sure about this one. It's, by horror standards, a well-made, efficiently jumpy, and interesting horror film. Still, the aggressiveness of the ear-ringing sound effect is — in decibels and its usage — highly excessive — to the point where it almost made me dislike the movie. Or perhaps that was the point? At the very least, it held my attention effortlessly; that's the sure thing.

Right after the introduction of a character named Ju-Hee — who is going insane due to the constant noise from Unit 604 just above her — disappears mysteriously. We are then introduced to…

This one really impressed me, especially considering it appears to be the director’s first feature film. At first, I thought it was going to be just another Grudge-inspired story, but it ended up having much more to offer. The influence from that franchise is clear, yet the film carves out its own space. At times it even felt like a mix between The Grudge, Wall-to-Wall, and Ahn Byeong-ki’s 2006 film Apt, but without ever losing its own identity. The atmosphere is eerie, the scares are effective, and the pacing allows the tension to build in a way that kept me invested.

It is not without flaws, but for a debut feature, the execution is stronger than I expected. The way…