Warning A must-watch ghost tale! Check out our review for Kim Jin-wonâs South Korean horror for Shudder. By Rachael Harper 11-06-20 77,715 Aspiring director Mi-jungâs life revolves around horror movies. Not only does she direct them, she consistently dreams about them and then enthusiastically writes about said dreams when sheâs awake. But when Mi-jungâs obsession leads to her persuing a rumoured horror movie shot by an actual ghost, her fixation on the genre gets far too close for comfort. Struggling to find a story for her next movie, Mi-jung Ye-ji Seo believes this ghost-shot frightener named Warningâ is the key to hitting the big time. However, with flashbacks to an attempted suicide in her past, Mi-jungâs life has a few horrors of its own, and the deeper she goes into this ghostly tale, the more her own life blurs into that of the movie. Make no mistake, Warning Do Not Play may sound a little The Ring-esque with its haunted filmâ skew but this is just one of the many ways this movie squarely lines up your expectations and then quickly pivots away from any assumptions. What starts off as a seemingly simple ghost story leads the viewers down paths of abuse, mental health, aspirations, escapism, death and good old-fashioned humans being absolute bastards. The story divulges into various directions at one point weâre even asking ourselves if Mi-jung IS the ghost but writer and director Kim Jin-won juggles all of them with seeming ease, steering the story in a very linear if complex direction. This is aided massively in Ye-ji Seoâs performance, which anchors the whole movie in a central focus on the character of Mi-jung. We find out pretty early on that Mi-jung is an unreliable protagonist but that doesnât stop us wholeheartedly following her on what is clearly a treacherous journey. Kim Jin-won also heaps on the terror without resorting to jump scares or gory set-pieces. Sure thereâs plenty of blood to go around, but the really unsettling moments are shrouded in the sly use of shadows and in the viewersâ imaginations of what we DONâT see even when Mi-jung photographs the horrors around her with her phone weâre not overly privy to what she captures. The final third of the film does drag slightly, with a showdown that loses momentum after a while. However, Kim Jin-won sticks the landing by shining a dark spotlight on humanity having the capacity to be a hell of a lot more evil than an enraged specter ever could be. Warning Do Not Play is available on Shudder now.
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Synopsis Watch at your own risk. 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. Cast Crew Details Genres Releases Cast Director Producer Writer Cinematography Additional Photography Stunts Composer Studio Country Language Alternative Titles Amjeon, éŹŒçïŒćłć°äžæ , éŹŒçïŒæćç°ćș, æèœŹ, Presencias Malditas, Warning Do not play, ăŻăŒăăłă° ăăźæ ç»ăèŠłăăȘ, ìì , ĐĐ°ŃĐŒĐ”ĐœĐžĐ”, ææ, éŹŒçïŒćłć°äžæ Genres Theatrical 15 Aug 2019 South Korea15 29 Aug 2019 Singapore17+ Popular reviews More 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. 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. 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 Warning do not play - Shudder originalSpoken language KoreanSeated 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 đŠ.I look around me, getting orientated. I adjust my glasses and run my fingers through my shoulder length black a flashlight in hand, I walk towards the exit to the auditorium. I am unable to⊠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 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 has its moments, but unless you're a die hard K-horror fan I can't give it a very strong recommendation. 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 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⊠Pretty disjointed. Kind of confusing. Moderately spooky. It's fine. also my advice on whether or not you should ever watch this on Shudder...For awhile now I have had this in my queue on that particular streaming service. One day I stumbled upon its title, laughed, saw it was a Korean picture, and was dumbstruck when I saw that the plot description mentioned something about a film MADE BY A GHOST. How could I not see a movie w/ such a plot point? I've seen some praise this... I wish my opinion matched theirs. It will be explained why I encourage those who see this on Shudder do NOT press âPlayâ, watch something else story follows a young filmmaker who is in the horror genre and⊠Always loooooved the idea of cursed / haunted films - this has a good enough premise and some effective scares they're hit or miss and the ghost starts showing up too much to remain scary for me, but some of those early ones, particularly in Mi-jung's apartment worked well imo. I just can't help feeling a little underwhelmed by the script and the eventual direction this ended up. It's a fine, light, breezy watch, but nothing spectacular. Kinda would have preferred to just watch the actual footage "shot by a ghost" instead as a feature-length. Mi-jung an excellent Seo Yea-ji is a young, bespectacled filmmaker who becomes obsessed with finding an obscure student horror film that may or may not have been made by a ghost. Her search leads her to the reclusive director Kim Jae-hyun a broken and intense Jin Seon-kyu and a copy of the elusive film. When she finally watches it, strange things begin to happen and it becomes difficult to tell what is real and what is is a really cool film that I havenât quite wrapped my mind around yet. If you like films about making horror films, youâll probably have a good time. I was expecting a haunted tape, which this has, but itâs got more in⊠My streak of competent horror couldn't last forever...Warning Do Not Watch isn't exactly incompetent if a little incoherent. An adaptation of The Ring, Warning contemplates a young, aspiring director looking for inspiration to make a horror film. She hears a rumor about a VHS tape that kills people yatta yatta yatta...she finds the movie, it's evil and ghosts attack. What kills me about Warning is the potential of the ideas namely, the director's past trauma in the first act and the time overlap suggestions of the third act. Many people enjoy horror film because it repurposes trauma as something approachable and entertaining. Although hinted at in the beginning, Warning's emphasis on the why of genre peters as genre clicheâŠ
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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 clichĂ©s 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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La busqueda de una pelicula grabada por un fantasma es una idea genial, y durante la primera la promesa de una pelicula peculiar cumple... hasta que a la mitad ella consigue la pelicula maldita. Con la informaciĂłn que se provee en la primera mitad no hay que ser un genio para descifrar cĂłmo culminarĂĄ el asunto. La confrontaciĂłn final contra el fantasma no fue del todo satisfactoria. Ojala alguien pueda hacer una mejor pelĂcula con esta idea en un futuro. I enjoyed this film for the most part. It has very good atmosphere, acting, and cinematography. Overall, the story holds your attention & feels pretty creepy throughout. However, the latter part of the movie gets a bit muddled, which makes the conclusion feel a bit confusing at first. Still, itâs film-within-a-film setup is interesting and Iâd say itâs definitely worth a watch. Perfect for a rainy day. Entertaining abliet light on scares. Stylistically harkens back to the j horror boom of early 2000s. Unfortunately drops the ball in its rambling, incoherent 3rd act. Not enough investigating the mystery, too much vague haunting and ghost murder. I think itâs got good bones, but in the end it didnât really do it for me. if youâre going to go into found footage go all the way!!!! cowards!! A fun movie about a lost horror movie with some good creepiness. The first half is really spooky getting into the mystery, but once things hit the fan it lost me a little. Still, not a bad watch. While I did like this film more than I disliked it, it was very close. It had some cool gore and a few genuinely creepy sequences. But like... it didn't make a whole lot of sense and in its efforts to be clever or meta it ends up eating its own tail and choking on it a little bit. Does that make any sense at all? I dunno, it's like 3am right now. Anyway; the characters are somewhat interesting and⊠Warning Do Not Play is just the another average Korean horror film, but good average one. I thought its gonna be silly and stupid execution but the amount of suspense there is not that bad. I liked that this one is not just a horror movie with tsunami of jumpscares but to think about the story plot is easy to catch, but also not cheap. This is also quite brutal, I adored it. Audience Score đ
60% The actress is pretty that's really the only positive thing about this movie. Girlbossed her way to fame and fortune. Who am I to judge
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