Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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