2018 · horror · found-footage
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
Directed by Jung Bum-shik1h 35m2018
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
Our read: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · found-footage entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / found-footage, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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