29/23
At the beginning of the film they meet in a restaurant for the first time
Synopsis
The team of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. He soon encounters much more than he bargained for as he moves deeper into the nightmarish old building. The filmmakers were unable to obtain permission from the South Korean government to film in the actual hospital, so the film’s Gonjiam action scenes were actually shot at Busan National Maritime Academy, with the production team adhering strictly to the hospital’s floor plan, for to recreate the exact same exterior and corridors..
They were talking about doing it & then they did
But on the way to the hospital, they refer to a previous trip. In the footage of everyone jumping into the water, all the faces are the same, who supposedly just met. * EDIT – they referred to a previous trip & then *everyone who just met* jumped into the water.
References Homecoming on Haunted Hill (2007)
No nonsense.. I’m usually critical of found footage horrors as they are usually unnecessary and don’t add anything to the story. Normally, found footage films would do better as "regular" movie.
This is not the case with Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
With the new cutting edge technology and the reason the actors know how to work a camera, it serves the purpose of this film perfectly. It has some shaky-cam and other "effects" which you usually see in found footage, which in my opinion ruins the film. The story itself is pretty standard, 7 young "ghost hunters" entered an old madhouse, mainly for views and profit, making it more realistic than other similar films.
If you want a scary movie without too much plot, this is the movie for you
The pace of the movie is quite slow and nothing really happens in the first half, but it’s worth it! I originally wanted to give this a 6, but considering it’s a horror movie and one of the scariest it’s subgenre I’ve ever seen, I bumped it up to a 7.
Angel Torrado(https://bl777.ph/)