Watched Aug 16, 2020 BurtonMacReadyâs review published on Letterboxd Shudder has debuted several South Korean films as part of their 2020 Originals slate but only MONSTRUM seems to have made a sizable imprint on people. However, there was no way I was not going to end up watching a film called WARNING DO NOT PLAY with a plot description of âyoung filmmaker tries to find a film shot by a ghostâ, especially after I saw the trailer for this on one of the Shudder TV streams. And I gotta say, Iâm surprised by how thereâs been virtually no talk of this. It is a mostly successful take on horror thrillers in the mode of SINISTER and RING/THE RING the film even seemed to take some plot points from Hideo Nakataâs earlier DONâT LOOK UP, particularly in the first half when it is focused solely on the investigating into the mystery. What helps it stand out and seem a little fresher is having the main character be a young director she is described as having had some successful festival shorts but is now struggling to develop a feature with a studio, which brings in such amusing unexpected moments as a hilarious debate among some drunk film students about Christopher Nolan. It really just seemed to be in lockstep with the actual types of discussions young movie makers and watchers have been having for the last few even more essential to the filmâs success is the lead performance by Seo Ye-ji who is immediately assured and likable as the almost Hawksian protagonist with the basically all-male of entertainment industry around her as the club she must break into. You believe both her determination and brashness even as the supernatural horror of the film creeps in more and the film does increasingly come to rely on clichĂŠs and some excessive special effects until much of the tension established throughout is replaced with bigger but more pedestrian ghost attacks. The film also throws in a few too many plot turns way late in the game and while the film certainly drums up some successful scares, thereâs times when too much is shown of the CGI and it takes you out. But even still, it runs only 86 minutes and is consistently effectively directed by Kim Ji-won. It doesnât reach the heights of some of its influences but as a fun watch with some chills, it definitely should be seen by more people. Block or Report BurtonMacReady liked these reviews
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3 star haunted video horror/mystery. Warning Do Not Play is a South Korean Shudder original horror film written and directed by Kim Jin-won The Butcher. It is available on , a premium horror/thriller streaming service and also on Shudder UK. âDo you have a religion? Stop thinking about Warning, start going to church.â Mi-Jung Ye-ji Seo â Save Me, Lawless Lawyer is a young film director. She has been contracted to make a film on the back of film festival success but is struggling to come up with the goods. With her final deadline looming, things look bleak, her dreams provide her with some ideas but not enough. As luck would have it, good friend and former colleague Joon-Seo Yoon-ho Ji â In Between Seasons, Argon remembers a rumour that he heard. A student filmmaker produced a film for his graduation project which was supposedly so scary that half the audience ran out and one of them died of a cardiac arrest. Unfortunately he knows neither the title nor the year it was made, just the University. Spotting an opening, Mi-Jung heads off to Daejeon University to investigate, but runs up against resistance there too until she speaks to the students, who all know the rumours about the film âWarningâ, supposedly made by a ghost. Finally, she is able to track down director Kim Jae-hun Seon-kyu Jin â The Outlaws, Kingdom, however he is less than pleased to see her and offers a stark warning to leave well alone. Of course she does not do this and events begin to spiral out of control as the lines between truth and fiction blur. Warning Do Not Play is an interesting addition to the haunted film genre. It approaches from several angles, traditional horror film style for Mi-Jungâs activities and found footage style for the actual film she is researching, as well as a making-of feature. Clever as all this is however, it does eventually result in the story becoming a little fragmented and rather confusing and difficult to follow in places. It does have a good and very surprising twist and the whole thing is carried by an excellent acting performance by Ye-ji Seo who really makes it believable. The majority of the horror comes towards the end of the film, prior to that it is more of a mystery. Once it arrives it is a blood soaked eyeball fest and quite satisfying. Well worth a watch as something a little different in this genre, sure to delight fans of Korean horror and haunted films. âSo, what happens to the director and her friend, in the end?â Warning Do Not Play is available to stream now on Shudder. ďťż DirectorKim Jin-won GenreHorror/mystery StarringYe-ji Seo, Seon-kyu Jin, Yoon-ho Ji
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Kim Jin-won, director of the infamous Korean shocker The Butcher, returns with a very different horrorâŚKorean writer director Kim Jin-won certainly made an impact with his debut way back in 2007 with The Butcher, one of the most brutal and sadistic horror films from Korea, or indeed anywhere, of the last couple of decades, as well as one of the most effective and nauseating uses of the found footage format. Quite possibly due to the infamy of the film, which wasnât released properly in Korea and which quickly became notorious in international horror circles, itâs taken Kim more than a decade to make his second feature, which arrived in 2019 in the form of Warning Do Not Play, now streaming on postsArticle continues afterPerhaps unsurprisingly, Kimâs latest is a far more conventional slice of horror, following a new director called Mi-jung popular TV actress Seo Yea-ji, recently in Itâs Okay to Not Be Okay, who has been stuck in development hell for some eight years trying to get a genre film made, and whoâs struggling for inspiration. Becoming intrigued by the story of a haunted film which was supposedly directed by a ghost and which brings doom and disaster to those who screen it, she starts investigating the story, which seems to link to the tale of a dead actress. Managing to track down the filmâs director Kim Jae-hyun Jin Seon-kyu, Svaha The Sixth Finger, she finds herself beset by increasingly strange and threatening visions, and her grip on reality starts to safe to say that Warning Do Not Play doesnât have much in common with The Butcher as a horror film, and itâs a considerably more conventional affair thatâs much more in line with what might be expected from the Korean ghost genre. Focusing on a lone female protagonist trying to track down a haunted/cursed film, the script clearly nods in the direction of Ringu and the long list of Korean films which tried to replicate its success, and Kim Jin-won does largely stick to following the usual formula. On this score, while thereâs nothing new, the film is at least efficiently done, moving along briskly and clocking in at just 86 minutes, making it around half an hour shorter than many of its Korean horror peers, something which definitely wins it extra marks. Kim does a good job of balancing atmospheric creepiness with a handful of spooky set pieces, and the film is at its best when trying to pull the viewer into the same confused and unsettled mindset as its protagonist Mi-jung. Seo Yea-ji is great in the lead, and is quite different and both more understated and independent than her counterparts most similar films, and though the script doesnât give her a huge amount to work with, she helps to keep things is a little frustrating is that Kim is clearly a talented director, and there are hints scattered throughout which suggest that something more substantial could have been achieved with Warning Do Not Play. Given that for those who could stomach it, at least The Butcher worked both as extreme torture porn and as a particularly vicious satire on the Korean industry, itâs easy to see some of the same here, with Mi-jungâs unpleasant experiences with the director Kim character, and the idea of her having been stuck trying to get a film made for eight years having a touch of the autobiographical to them, especially given the length of time between Kimâs own first and second features. Though the filmâs scare scenes are all well-handled, its more surreal and ambiguous elements come across as being more key, and itâs hard not to think that if this had been the focus, it would have been considerably more itâs great to see Kim Jin-won back behind the camera, and Warning Do Not Play is certainly worth catching for horror fans, especially those who enjoy slightly self-reflexive films about the film industry. While nowhere near as memorable as The Butcher, it nevertheless shows him as being perfectly capable of working with more commercial genre fare, and hopefully there wonât be such a long wait for his next Do Not Play is available to stream on Shudder the author James Mudge From Glasgow but based in London, James has been writing for a variety of websites over the last decade, including BeyondHollywood in the US and YesAsia in Hong Kong. As well as running film consultancy The Next Day Agency, James is also the Festival Director of the Chinese Visual Festival in London, an annual event which showcases Chinese language cinema... More Âť Read all posts by James Mudge On this day Eight years agoDragon BladeJohn Cusack and Adrien Brody co-star with Jackie Chan in this messy hamfestâ⌠more⌠Read on â On this day 15 years agoThe WigWhatâs this? A wig that will make you look and act just like all those other scary Asian horror girls? 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ďťżRent Rent/buy Rent/buy Warning Do Not Play Photos Movie Info Terror strikes when a fledgling director investigates claims of a cursed student film. Genre Horror, Mystery & thriller Original Language Korean Director Kim Jin-won Writer Kim Jin-won Release Date Streaming Jun 15, 2020 Runtime 1h 26m Aspect Ratio Scope Cast & Crew Critic Reviews for Warning Do Not Play Audience Reviews for Warning Do Not Play There are no featured reviews for Warning Do Not Play because the movie has not released yet . See Movies in Theaters
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PHOTO mm2 EntertainmentSINGAPORE ââŹâ A film about a director who's making a film may sound a tad indulgent, but that's the basic premise of Warning Do Not Play. Of course, it features a director who's painfully hipster in appearance, who seems like an idealised projection of the writer-director of Warning Do Not Play. With a premise that sounds more suited for an art film than a horror film although it could be both, the movie promises much but delivers something else mm2 EntertainmentThe film centres on struggling director Mi-Jung Seo Yea-Ji who learns of a legendary horror film and goes on a quest to unearth it and find the director of that film, who seems to have gone insane. However, she finds out that there may be some truth in his incoherent ramblings, and finds herself getting pulled into circumstances that led to the creation of the horror mm2 EntertainmentBeing a horror movie affords the chance for interesting and metaphorical visuals, which the film has in spades. It's an interesting bit of artistry, especially when the story goes off on a figurative tangent and blurs the line between reality and the imagination of the characters. The visuals are enjoyable, but the story gets lost in the process. The film can get very disjointed at times, especially when it comes to the horror mm2 EntertainmentHowever, the horror scenes are relatively limited, being left mainly for the third act and to open the film. The bulk of the movie is actually a mystery, one in which Mi-Jung solves sort of by finding the creator of the film she's been looking for. It's probably better categorised as a mystery rather than as horror, given that you're not really that scared for most of the mm2 EntertainmentMain character Mi-Jung looks unlike any director you've ever seen which is good, but bears all the mannerisms and neuroticisms of one which isn't. Perhaps that's why in the story, she projects herself into a character in the film that she's making, as her friend points out. Ironically, it seems like exactly what the actual director of Warning Do Not Play did with Mi-Jung, which makes it a rather meta reference to be had. Then you have the two fictional films in the movie itself ââŹâ the one that Mi-Jung is looking for, and the one that she creates, Both of them are titled Warning Do Not Play, in a very circular, self-referential bit of mm2 EntertainmentYou do empathise with Mi-Jung over time though, partly due to her portrayal as a nervous wreck who has great faith in her vision for a movie, but isn't quite sure what that vision is. She's a difficult character to play, but Seo Yea-Ji manages to pull it off and express the different facets of her character over the course of the movie. Mi-Jung's misplaced faith also mirrors the direction of Warning Do Not Play itself ââŹâ you can't quite shake the fact that the overall direction of the movie is murky, at mm2 EntertainmentDespite its short runtime, there are some very lengthy, sleep-inducing scenes which could have been trimmed for time. These differ from the talking heads scenes, which do discuss some fairly intriguing topics. But as a movie that borders on arthouse, it's inevitable that some indulgent scenes would have creeped their way in ââŹâ which they mm2 EntertainmentWarning Do Not Play is more of a mystery movie than anything else, with some horror elements. It can be a little interesting thanks to its more artistic bent, but it loses its direction trying to be meta at times. By being arthouse, it becomes confusing, which isn't the best thing for a horror movie to you watch this at weekday movie ticket prices? you watch this at weekend movie ticket prices? time 86 minSecret ending? Do Not Play is a Korean mystery movie with horror is directed and written by Kim Jin-Won. It stars Seo Yea-Ji Mi Jung, Jin Sun-Kyu Jae-Hyun, Kim Bo-Ra Ji Soo, and Cha Yub Cha Kwang-Bae. It is rated Do Not Play opens in cinemas- 29 August, 2019 Singapore- 5 September, 2019 MalaysiaMarcus Goh is a television scriptwriter who writes for ââŹĹCrimewatchââŹÂ, as well as popular shows like ââŹĹLion MumsââŹÂ, ââŹĹCode of LawââŹÂ, ââŹĹIncredible TalesââŹÂ, and ââŹĹPolice & ThiefââŹÂ. HeââŹâ˘s also a Transformers enthusiast and avid pop culture scholar. You can find him on social media as Optimarcus and on his site. The views expressed are his Yahoo Lifestyle Singapore on Facebook.
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A rookie director desperate for a script seeks out an urban legend about a horror film said to be filmed by a ghost. Mix found footage, classic Asian horror and more than a touch of Christopher Nolan's penchant for nested or complex narratives and you have a fascinating film from writer/director Kim ěě is the Korean title for this film and means "Blackout" which is a much better title as it has multiple levels of meaning for this film. It probably doesn't have that attention grabbing feel of a title like Antrum The World's Deadliest Film which this has been compared to. That said the English title does work it just doesn't have the same this film, Mi-Jung Seo Ye-Ji is a first time feature director coming off of an impressive festival screening. But we find her suffering from that great curse of all creatives, writer's block. Running out of time to present her producers with a script she desperately seeks out a subject. This is a pretty common set up for a ghost story. There are two kinds of ghost story protagonists those who inadvertently contact the ghosts and those who seek out the ghosts. The former tends to show up in films like The Grudge, Rec, The Amityville Horror and The Conjuring. These are usually survival/escape/resolve haunting stories. The latter is more who seek ghosts fall into a few subcategories the desperate, the hubristic, the curious, and the insane. They can be intermixed but typically these people have some sense of what they are getting into and do it anyway. This can lead to unsympathetic or stupid protagonists. Why would you go into the house of legend and why would you stay when the voices scream "get out?"Mi-Jung falls into the category of the desperate and the curious. Her desperation for inspiration leads her to dig up a legendary film called "Warning" that was supposedly filmed by a ghost who murdered the people on screen. But once she finds out about it her curiosity starts to get the better of her and she feels she must find this film. This leads her down a progressively dark path where we learn that there is more to her and this obsession than we first notice I don't mention other actors as much and that's not because they aren't good it's just that Mi-Jung has the responsibility of carrying the film and is in most every shot, many times alone. If we do not believe her, the movie falls helps that Kim Jin-won has penned an interesting script. The film has meta feel in places. A film about a filmmaker seeking a film that's based on a mystery surrounding another previous film gives the whole thing a Russian nesting doll feel. And it works more than it doesn't. The film is narratively ambitious and it doesn't leave a lot of room for character development. Most of it is either expository or used to move the story forward. It's not bad but you won't be finding any grand soliloquies in film though is almost too ambitious. Without the intricate set up and pay off the film is a pretty standard "oh no I opened a can of ghost" based on the Gwishin ęˇě who are ghosts cursed to remain on earth because they have not finished their objective in life one guess what that is. Rather than tell a complex story in a simple way the film tells a simple story in a complex does have a few red herrings and an ending that is ambiguous, the different film narratives collapsing into a single tale about madness, obsession with the camera and what it can do, and an angry ghost. And your enjoyment of the film will come from how well you feel the film accomplishes this narrative direction is spectacular with lots of clever ideas and Jin-won is able to maintain cohesion regardless of which film we are experiencing. The found footage is of a different quality than the main feature and the feature within that has its own vibe. I love that the film doesn't rely heavily on jump scares. There are a few but mostly the film is content with is some gore and it's mostly good. It's a mix of practical and digital and I'll have to say some of the digital elements were very apparent and took me out of the film especially a sequence involving some barbed wire but this is a common gripe for me and may not be for you. There are some digital effects shot not related to the gore that are actually rather exciting and show a clever imagination on the part of the do want to take a moment to single out the cinematography. Yoon Young-soo has translated the director's ideas into some beautiful haunting imagery. Many scenes in the film have a single cell phone light source and it never feels cheap or cheesy. There's a great use of different colored filters to highlight characters and offset them from each other and the backgrounds. Outside of the ghostly moments there is a naturalistic feel to the lighting, especially a couple of scenes at night at an outdoor Do Not Play is a great little horror movie. It has a lot of things I like from different genres and includes some impressive direction and cinematography. If you've seen a lot of Asian horror or a lot of found footage and are looking for something a little different and narratively ambitious this might be for you.
Directedby Kim Jin-won-II (ęšě§ě) Written by Kim Jin-won-II (ęšě§ě) 86min | Release date in South Korea: 2019/08/15. Also known as "Blackout". Synopsis. A mystery horror flick about a director wannabe, Mi-jeong, who seeks the movie that is claimed to have been made by a ghost. During her search she meets Jae-hyeon, the real director of
While Korean cinema has a long and pretty terrifying history when it comes to ghost films, the spooky sub-genre doesnât tend to be forefront in peopleâs minds when the discussion of South Korean films leans towards horror. Without a doubt, the far more prevalent and easily more recognisable revengeâ model is the go-to for many film fans. So with 2020 being the year that a Korean film is the first foreign language film to take home the Best Film Oscar, Shudder are frontloading their offerings with everything they can grab from the countryâs fully stocked library of films waiting for a release. And while Aprilâs MHz did next to nothing for most fans of the genre, the companyâs latest acquisition, Warning Do Not Play may fare a little better. An aspiring film maker, Mi-Jung Yi-Ji Seo â Diary of a Night Watchman is frantically trying to come up with a new idea for a horror film. When her friend tells her a tale of a haunted film, supposedly made by a ghost and banned from ever being shown, Mi-Jung sets out to find out if the urban legends and rumours are true. Her search for the scary film that may, or may not, have killed somebody durning a university screening doesnât only turn into an obsession for the young filmmaker, it becomes the inspiration for her own film. She will document her hunt for âWarningâ and that will become her own scary movie. Tracking down the director, Jae-Hyun Seon-kyu Jin â Kingdom, getting her hands on a copy of this damned film and getting to the bottom of why the film is so feared might not be as easy as Mi-Jung thinks. But as tales of a young actress burned to death, a cursed film, and a vengeful ghost begin to feel more like real-life, Mi-Jung finds her dream project and the urban legends she is chasing come colliding together with horrific consequences. READ MORE Video Game Remakes â Why Are We So Excited? In 2007, director Kim Jin-Won not to be confused with the excellent Kim Jee-Woon made The Butcher; a found footage style film that took on the taboo of snuff movies, and looked at footage from the angles of the maker and the victim. It was a fun little film with something interesting to say but fell flat with audiences that saw it; primarily for its inability to live up to films like The Good, The Bad and The Weird or The Host that surrounded it. But the filmmaker had an obvious love for the way films are created, and telling stories around their production. Warning Do Not Play, while slightly self-indulgent, is a love letter to the creation of low-budget found footage horror films, even invoking the name of The Blair Witch Project in his script which, for the most part, is solid and tense. While not wholly original, much of the tension in this film is built up through the use of a tiny phone flashlight and us knowing, knowing, something is going to come out of the dark straight at us. Early jumps are telegraphed, faked, and then delivered with excellent timing and awareness of audience knowledge. We know that shadow is going to come at us, and we are pretty sure when. Kim Jin-Won knows we know this and racks up the tension before delivering scares accordingly. Sadly, the directorâs tricks donât last long, and this 85 minute film loses the ability to make you catch your breath and draw goosebumps quite early on. That being said, the scares that hit are good and the ones after that point are still delivered well while looking and feeling creepy, but the story of cursed crews and disastrous shoots has taken over and this horror movie becomes more of a mystery needing solving. Yi-Ji Seo convinces as the desperate director clinging onto the hope of a great idea to turn into a film. Her insistence in putting her life in the hands of her phoneâs measly light in the hope of getting inspiration are admirable and stupid in equal measure. She has audiences begging her to turn and run and screaming at her for going into that basement we all know is going to be far worse for her than she realises. But we can feel the longing for that killer idea in her and while we know it is almost certainly going to end badly, we understand the things pushing her down those stairs and into the dark. READ MORE The Analogy of Jordan Peeleâs Get Out and why you should stop watching The Help Seoâs performance is the main reason to stick with Warning Do Not Play. Her torture at the hands of the ghosts haunting her film is brilliantly portrayed,, even if the hints at her troubled past are frustratingly left by the wayside. She desperately needs a bigger and better film to showcase her talents. Warning Do Not Play is a mish-mash of its influences. From Ringu and Ju-On, to Lights Out with a healthy dose of One Cut of the Dead, the film homages all these great films while never honouring them quite as much as it thinks it is. It is a film to go into with slightly lowered expectations and a less than critical eye. Warning Do Not Play premieres on 11th June on Shudder UK.Netflix Netflix is a TV streaming service that lists movies, TV series and originals. Netflix has created original movies and series including House of Warning Do Not Play is a South-Korean horror that can proudly stand among the great Asian movies from this decade with a focus on filmmaking, One Cut Of The Dead and The Kirishima Thing among them. It is essentially a ghost story spanning decades which doubles as a cursed-object movie featuring frequently disturbing imagery â mostly of characters in a catatonic state inflicting self-harm â and while the scares can be bare-bones at times, the movie works best as a metaphor for the worst impulses of filmmakers today how they sometimes end up casually exploiting the suffering of others and misappropriate their stories in order to further their own image or to simply get ahead. On the brighter side, it also demonstrates how cinema can be a beacon of hope, making films an act of salvation, and how just pointing a camera at someone and shooting can be the best possible decision. When we first meet Mi-Jung, sheâs having a nightmare of herself being alone in a movie theater, and she slowly wakes up and sees a blinking eye on her phoneâs cracked screen. As if to foreshadow the movieâs themes, and its structure, this image is a great sum-up of the whole story that is to come it turns out that Mi-Jung is still dreaming, and when she wakes up for real, we get acquainted to her real plight sheâs a horror filmmaker under heavy stress because of a looming deadline; if she canât come up with a scary concept for her newest project in two weeks, she and the whole team will lose the gig. When she hears about an urban legend concerning a film supposedly directed by a ghost that caused walkouts and heart-attacks, she travels to Daejeon to find it. Mi-Jung is immediately likeable, but she can be immensely manipulative as well. She will have her way no matter what. After she doesnât get anywhere with the film university staff, she meets three male film-school students in a bar, chatting about Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve the movie uses intertextuality to great effect, and its approach feels universal â itâs a story that can be placed into another geographical area without it losing much of its meaning one of the funniest lines is Your work suffers because you just canât accept Nolan!â, but the sleek cinematography that can feel like a tour-guide to a haunted house, and the stunningly rich color palette are there for diehard Asian cinema fans to enjoy. She promises to grant them any wish if they can come up with a scary story from the Daejeon region. ANY wish?â, one of them replies, and they start arguing among themselves until all three end up sharing the same story, one related to the same hauntedâ film from before. The protagonist is no stranger to stealing either. After getting her hands on a clip from the movie, she manages to track down the director and plans to get the full version somehow. What happens in the second act, after the more investigating an urban legendâ feel of the first one, can seem like standard Asian horror there are definitely some 10 to 15 minutes that feel too minimal, too focused on jump-scares rather than on the actual characters, as the true nature of the film comes into play and Mi-Jung has to fight for her life. What she actually does is just walk around slowly with bated breath while the film is teasing the viewer with the obvious scare waiting just around the corner, and while that can be a plus for atmosphere, it also clashes with what came before and might lose some viewers. But worry not just stick with it. It not only recovers from almost having devolved into a standard, low to mid-tied Asian horror, but it also ends up being an excellent example of a frame story, while perfectly using the show, donât tellâ principle it includes found-footage elements to tell the tale of the cursed film, and makes the characters behind the original movie feel like actual people, by using clever parallels between them and Mi-Jung and benefiting from some truly creative camerawork. It never ever tells you that itâs about filmmakers exploiting real people and their suffering for personal gain, becoming more distanced from reality and their own humanity â it just lets you witness that first-hand with almost every scene, and carries multiple meanings. The best thing about the movie, besides its visuals and storytelling, is the character development. The original film director is a former shell of himself because of past events, and Mi-Jungâs transformation in the filmâs climax occurs within a split-second â a result of her survival instincts, but also the fact that she might be different from the get that footage no matter whatâ school of thought. Whether she truly changes or is just more clever and devious than the other characters and finds a way to justify her behavior, of if she chooses to just ignore the past, thatâs up for interpretation. As such, the movie illustrates how the current generation of directors can borrow from what came before them, ranging from gentle homage to blatant plagiarism, but can also subvert and refocus. Like the character development and what it actually signifies in the larger picture, the filmâs twist ending can be interpreted in a lot of ways it serves as a cautionary tale for the viewer, but also perfectly illustrates what exactly Mi-Jung has lost in her journey of recovering the movie Missing and forcing her way into the directorâs seat. As such, it is a pitch-perfect ending to a film that manages â in just 86 minutes â to mix urban legends with curses and angry ghosts, while rarely letting go of its characters, their inner worldâ and their journey. The filmâs structure and approach to scares can be similar to that of Ringu or Ju-On, but the whole package feels closer to underappreciated, but ambitious J-horror oddities from before 2010 like Orochi and the new wave of Western horror movies, because of its metaphorical aspects. Seo Ye-Ji delivers a breakthrough performance here, and the fact that it almost works as a straight-up scary movie â if you choose to ignore the subtext â is a result of director Kim Jin-Wonâs ambitious grasp. ďťż Warning Do Not Play can be seen on Shudder, or acquired from major VOD platforms, and comes highly recommended. More Film Reviews No Escape is a 1994 American action sci-fi, based on the novel The Penal Colony written by Richard Herley. 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Megan Fox plays the role of Emma, a young⌠TheReal Lessons From Kodakâs Decline. Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didnât recognize soon enough that digital technology would decimate its traditional business. However, what really happened at Kodak is much more complicated â and instructive. Willy Shih May 20, 2016 Reading Time: 11 min. Eastman âListen to my warning, donât shed tears of regret when itâs too late.âWant to be spooked out and become afraid of a new ghost story complete with creepy ghoul noises? Shudder has got you covered when it added Warning Do Not Play to its streaming schedule. Directed by Kim Jin-won and starring Seo Ye-ji and Jin Sun-kyu, PremiseMi-jung has to come up with a new horror movie script soon or sheâs going to be in hot water. Her friend, Jun-seo, tells her about an urban legend that might actually be a true story. 10 years ago an aspiring filmmaker screened his new film, Warning, at graduation. Apparently someone had a heart attack and multiple people left in fear. The legend goes that the movie itself was filmed by a ghost. Mi-jung decides to write her script about her own search for this film and begins to do her research. Eventually she discovers the director, the film, and the true story. But if itâs all true, has Mi-jung invited a vengeful spirit into her life?Trigger warnings self-harm Hereâs what I loved full spoilersI wanna dive right in and talk about Soon-mi, the ghost in this movie. Clearly, she is a Gwisin which is a vengeful Korean spirit. These spirits are usually found in abandoned buildings and died without completing something so their spirit remains on earth to hopefully complete the task, growing stronger the longer the task is uncompleted. Soon-mi was an actress in 1980 who died filming in a theater, she was shooting a hanging scene when a fire broke out. Her crew left her and ran, in her panic she kicked the chair out from under her and actually did hang herself. Horrifying. But Soon-mi is out for some fucking vengeance and itâs such a cool idea â she wants her damn movie to be made and for people to see it, and since sheâs basically trapped in this abandoned theater, anyone who enters is at risk. The original director, Jae-Hyun, filmed the theater while Soon-mi killed his crew, he screened it, but it wasnât enough to satisfy her. When Mi-jung ends up in the same situation, she successfully films her movie without killing anyone, then screens it to standing applause. Soon-mi is finally satisfied, we think. But to get to that point Mi-jung has to go through a lot of terrible shit, including being haunted by Soon-mi and she is SO terrifying. Firstly, we never fully see her, she appears in the dark corners, some burned fingers, an eye without an eyelid, stringy hair, bloody cheeks. Weâre never shown a full shot which keeps you pretty terrified as your mind fills in the blank spots. But most importantly, Soon-mi makes some terrifying fucking noises. All I can think to relate it to is like an insect type noise, coming out of a dead womanâs throat, in the pitch black. Move over creepy girl from The Grudge, your noise has been read reviews of this movie and Iâve seen quite a few complaints. Iâve seen folx saying this movie is hard to follow, or reviewers referring to Soon-mi as a Yurei spirit. To those I say; do better. Pay more attention to a movie that has subtitles, work harder while watching it to fully understand the story. And secondly, do your fucking research. This is a Korean film, not a Japanese film. To me, this movie was a fascinating story to chew on and once I had pieced it together it was supremely satisfying. A well thought out plot that turns horror fans against themselves. Most of us watch horror to chase that feeling of fear, of the unknown. Warning Do Not Play throws that in our face â showing us what could happen if we took chasing our horror dream too far. Itâs so damn good. Thereâs also many supremely unreliable narrators here that will twist your view point of the main characters over and is also an incredibly emotional film, both Jae-Hyun and Mi-jung have emotional pasts that play a big part in their story trajectory. It says a lot of about sacrifices and how far someone will truly go to achieve their dream. âYou know whatâs scarier than dying? Living in horror.â Outstanding performances by everyone, some genuinely scary moments including one in the first 5 minutes, a very funny scene involving some film nerds, and a complex story that sticks with you long after the credits also some very unique story telling as the two tales combine in moments, leading to you breathlessly trying to figure out how that was Do Not Play is a must watch for horror fans! âYouâre insane too.â ABOUT SHUDDERAMC Networksâ Shudder is a premium streaming video service, super-serving members with the best selection in genre entertainment, covering horror, thrillers and the supernatural. Shudderâs expanding library of film, TV series, and originals is available on most streaming devices in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Germany. To experience Shudder commitment-free for 7 days, visit .
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