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2019

암전

Directed by Kim Jin-won

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A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.

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haley
Review by haley ★★★ 1

i was fully into this for the majority of the runtime but once you get to the final act, i feel like it just completely loses the atmosphere it worked so hard to create. the acting was great, which was no surprise to me as i'm a fan of multiple cast members, and there were a few good scares with some nice visuals, i just wish the final act could've kept up with the suspense that was built earlier on. i don't think i fully get the ending either, which may be my own fault, so i will definitely have to look into it to get a better understanding. ignoring that, this is still a pretty solid k-horror film and definitely worth checking out.

WestyMovieCrypt
Review by WestyMovieCrypt ★★★

“You know what’s more horrifying than death? Living in horror. That’s the scariest film of all time. If you end up like me, you’re better off dead.”

Park Mi-jung (Seo Yea-ji), a rookie horror movie director wants to make her next movie. In the preparing process, she hears about a banned horror movie from 8 years ago, directed by Kim Jae-hyun (Jin Seon-kyu). The rumour is that a ghost actually directed it. Mi-jung decides to find out what happened in the past, expecting that it might give some inspiration for her upcoming movie.

This 2019 South Korean horror mystery is a slow-burn despite only being 86 minutes long, I really felt the middle part of it dragged its arse a…

Dyrnott
Review by Dyrnott ★★★★ Liked

It was very good! I am a sucker for a movie about a lost horror movie! First half is awesome. The last half gets a little muddled for the storyline but is still good and seems to straighten out by the end. The movie is in subtitles. Give it a try.

Paul Thomas
Review by Paul Thomas ★★★½

For Korean horror, this feels a little standard and normal. I usually love Korean horror as a reprieve from safer American horror.

That said, I still found it an interesting experience with a few scary moments and some nice commentary towards the end on the power and effects of film. The lead performance lifted the movie as well. I can understand others saying it's uneven and disjointed, but there was still a charm to it that pulled me in

Daveski
Review by Daveski ★★½ 3

There are a lot of elements to this that I liked. I love stuff about cursed/haunted films (total aside: if you also dig stuff like that, I highly highly recommend the novel Night Film by Marisha Pessl), and there are some pretty creepy moments. Good use of lighting and atmosphere as well.

The pacing is just all over the place though. It felt super long even though it's only 85 minutes, and I found myself getting kind of bored more than once. The plot seemed too convoluted to me, but I confess that my mind was wandering a bit (due to the boredom) so it's possible I just wasn't paying enough attention.

This has its moments, but unless you're a die hard K-horror fan I can't give it a very strong recommendation.

Freyr
Review by Freyr ★★★½

It was well over a decade ago that I sought out Kim Jin-won's debut film, The Butcher. It had a small cult reputation for its brutality that intrigued me, and I managed to find it on DVD after a bit of searching (at a convention I believe). I hated the film completely, but I also don't want to linger on that too much right now.

It feels very worth mentioning though, as this, his follow up feature so many years later, bears a lot of resemblance to the situation that the director seems to be in (as an outsider looking at these films and the gap between them, with little to go on in regards to what Kim has been…

Geoffrey Broomer
Review by Geoffrey Broomer

Producers are lined up, but Park Mi-Jung (Seo Yea-ji) has a serious case of writer's block... which is a trope that works with novelists, but switched to the realm of auteur filmmaking? If you have nothing to say, fuck off. With two weeks to turn in a script, Park decides to investigate a rumour about a student filmmaker whose final project was screened to a riot, and alleged to have been made by a ghost...

...This isn't the scariest movie ever made, this is a tribute to it...

Ugh. Now there are only a few films about filmmaking that don't generally piss me off - so I'll admit to being biased from the start, and am not rating as a…

DeathBolt
Review by DeathBolt ★★½

Pretty disjointed. Kind of confusing. Moderately spooky. It's fine.

Artois
Review by Artois ★★½ Liked

Warning do not play - Shudder original
Spoken language: Korean

Seated in an darkened auditorium, several students are nearby. We are watching a screening of a movie.
I see the last glimpse of the blue chairs in the auditorium sitting area before my eyes close.
I couldn't have been asleep for more than a couple of minutes.
As I come to, everyone has exited the screening. I'm all alone and it's pitch black. I locate my phone and turn on the flashlight 🔦.
I look around me, getting orientated. I adjust my glasses and run my fingers through my shoulder length black hair.
With a flashlight in hand, I walk towards the exit to the auditorium. I am unable to…