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User Reviews for: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

$hubes
6/10  2 months ago
If you're into foreign-language horror movies, this might interest you. I found it to be sort of a mix between _The Blair Witch Project_ and something else (that I can't think of at the moment.. maybe I'm thinking of _The Ring_ ?) I mean, the premise was nothing unusual and the scare factor was practically nonexistent: this was more of a "suspense" movie with a couple of jump scares randomly thrown in. The whole thing just, to me, seemed entirely predicatable and of course - exactly as I suspected - the closing scene was basically your "random scene, cut to black, roll credits" that left you staring at the screen. Maybe it's because it was Korean, I don't know, but I really didn't get a lot of the story; perhaps the translation to American English just didn't work. It wasn't a "bad" movie...just not the best hour-and-a-half that I've sat through. (In its defense, however, it wasn't the WORST, either.) I will say that the acting exceeded my expectations. Again, for a foreign-language film (and this wasn't my first FL film, not even my first Korean film) I may have missed a bit of what all went on here since I think some of the scenes and dialogue didn't translate to English real well. (Example: they're scared out of their wits, screaming, running for their lives and the English subtitles read, _"Where do I go?"_ Yeahhhhh...I'm thinking they were screaming something besides _"Where do I go?"_ ) In any event, if you can handle - indeed, if you ENJOY foreign-language films and horror, this may be a nifty little 90-minute film. If you're not into foreign-language films or supernatural suspense, I would suggest giving this one a pass. As an added PS: If you're looking for something with a lot of violence and/or gore in it, you definitely want to skip this one. No violence, no gore, no brutality, nothing like you might find in today's modern American "horror" movies.
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