While Korean cinema has a long and pretty terrifying history when it comes to ghost films, the spooky sub-genre doesn’t tend to be forefront in people’s minds when the discussion of South Korean films leans towards horror. Without a doubt, the far more prevalent and easily more recognisable revenge’ 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 country’s fully stocked library of films waiting for a release. And while April’s MHz did next to nothing for most fans of the genre, the company’s latest acquisition, Warning Do Not Play may fare a little better. An aspiring film maker, Mi-Jung Yi-Ji Seo – 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 doesn’t only turn into an obsession for the young filmmaker, it becomes the inspiration for her own film. She will document her hunt for “Warning” and that will become her own scary movie. Tracking down the director, Jae-Hyun Seon-kyu Jin – 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 – 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 director’s tricks don’t 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 phone’s 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 Peele’s Get Out and why you should stop watching The Help Seo’s 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.BecomeEivor, a mighty Viking raider and lead your clan from the harsh shores of Norway to a new home amid the lush farmlands of ninth-century England. Explore a beautiful, mysterious open world where you'll face brutal enemies, raid fortresses, build your clan's new settlement, and forge alliances to win glory and earn a place in Valhalla. 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. “Do you have a religion? Stop thinking about Warning, start going to church.” Mi-Jung Ye-ji Seo – 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 – 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 “Warning”, supposedly made by a ghost. Finally, she is able to track down director Kim Jae-hun Seon-kyu Jin – 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-Jung’s 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. “So, what happens to the director and her friend, in the end?” Warning Do Not Play is available to stream now on Shudder. DirectorKim Jin-won GenreHorror/mystery StarringYe-ji Seo, Seon-kyu Jin, Yoon-ho Ji Thishelp content & information General Help Center experience. Search. Clear search
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WelcomeWelcome back to my channel! I love my South Korean horror, so of course I was gonna check out the new Shudder horror movie, Warning: Do Not Play!JoinKim Jin-won, director of the infamous Korean shocker The Butcher, returns with a very different horror…Korean 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 wasn’t released properly in Korea and which quickly became notorious in international horror circles, it’s 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, Kim’s latest is a far more conventional slice of horror, following a new director called Mi-jung popular TV actress Seo Yea-ji, recently in It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, who has been stuck in development hell for some eight years trying to get a genre film made, and who’s 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 film’s 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 doesn’t have much in common with The Butcher as a horror film, and it’s a considerably more conventional affair that’s 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 there’s 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 doesn’t 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, it’s easy to see some of the same here, with Mi-jung’s 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 Kim’s own first and second features. Though the film’s scare scenes are all well-handled, its more surreal and ambiguous elements come across as being more key, and it’s hard not to think that if this had been the focus, it would have been considerably more it’s 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 won’t 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 » 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 hamfest’… more… Read on → On this day 15 years agoThe WigWhat’s this? A wig that will make you look and act just like all those other scary Asian horror girls? 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01 Jul 2020 Cinéologist’s review published on Letterboxd Please play because Kim Jin-won’s “Warning Do Not Play” is a solid exercise in mood and paranoia. It can be criticized for the more clichéd aspects of the story, like the protagonist always ending up in places where she shouldn’t be then having to fight for her life, but that is not the point. The goal is to provide a creepy time and it works. Unlike most modern horror movies that mire themselves in busyness, noise, and jumps scares, this one often chooses stillness, silence, a growing sense of desperate Mi-jung Neo Ye-ji has two weeks left to submit a workable film or else she’s out of a job. She is so stressed, she has started to have nightmares of being stuck in a movie theater with a ghost. A friend and possible romantic interest, Joon-Seo Ji Yoon-ho, tells her about a film, submitted by a university student as his final project some time ago, that was so scary, audiences left the auditorium in the middle of the showing because they couldn’t handle the images on screen. At the time the director of that feature, Jae-hyun Jin Seon-kyu, claimed it had been shot by a ghost. No one has heard of him since. Wishing to know more about the movie and the filmmaker, Mi-jung decides to investigate and, if possible, get her hands on a copy of the urban of the strongest elements in this gem is the writer-director’s ability to get us into the headspace of our heroine. She is often alone in her apartment. She finds herself lost in her notes, movies, her own thoughts. We see glimpses of her past when she tried to commit suicide in a bathtub. Was she bullied? We are not provided precise reasons why she felt she needed to end her life. And when she is outdoors conversing with another person, it is as though she isn’t fully there. We feel this dark cloud hovering right behind her, the blinding need to make a horror movie—it just has to be horror—even though she lacks compelling inspiration or original vision. Because we are given time to appreciate her motivations and circumstances, we understand why she feels she must gamble her life constantly to have a taste of is a story, I think, about social approval. The ghost—which looks rather scary not when it moves but when it stands still with those bulging eyes staring deep into your soul—works as a metaphor for that voice in our heads that tells us we must constantly deliver, move forward, and accomplish in order to be regarded as a productive and/or successful member of society. It is the pressure that we put upon themselves and how we mistaken that at times for Mi-jung want fame? I think she does, more than she herself knows or cares to admit. At least more than the need to exorcise the sadness and tragedy of her past. This is the aspect of the screenplay I felt could have used further development. I enjoyed that for this particular character, it is important that she be lauded or celebrated or else she does not feel complete. I don’t think she really cares whether her work is an original or a forgery so long as someone else elevates her with congratulatory words and final act might have been more effective had the more overt horror elements, like characters being dragged across the room by an invisible presence and dying in gruesome ways, been more subtle and the tragedy of human foibles been amplified. The former gets repetitive after a while. Still, “Warning Do Not Play” is worth seeing because it is not just a horror movie offering cheap scares. It has something to say about human nature. Block or ReportWarning: Do Not Play est un film réalisé par Kim Jin-won avec Seo Ye-Ji, Seon-kyu Jin. Synopsis : Une réalisatrice de film d’horreur en devenir est à
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, 鬼片：即将上映, 鬼片：惊吓现场, 暗转, Presencias Malditas, Warning Do not play, ワーニング その映画を観るな, 암전, Затмение, 暗战, 鬼片：即將上映 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 🔦.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 “Play”, 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 haven’t quite wrapped my mind around yet. If you like films about making horror films, you’ll probably have a good time. I was expecting a haunted tape, which this has, but it’s 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 cliche…
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