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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 암전 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 귀신 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. Kim 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? My word, is no one safe? more… Read on →Trending this month...The best in festival coverageComing soon* Beyond Utopia 16 June, 2023 Revenge Adauchi 19 June, 2023 The Execution Game 20 June, 2023 Mad Fate 23 June, 2023 The Night Owl 27 June, 2023 *Dates may change Warning A must-watch ghost tale! Check out our review for Kim Jin-won’s South Korean horror for Shudder. By Rachael Harper 11-06-20 77,715 Aspiring director Mi-jung’s life revolves around horror movies. Not only does she direct them, she consistently dreams about them and then enthusiastically writes about said dreams when she’s awake. But when Mi-jung’s 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 Warning’ is the key to hitting the big time. However, with flashbacks to an attempted suicide in her past, Mi-jung’s 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 film’ 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 we’re 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 Seo’s 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 doesn’t 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 there’s plenty of blood to go around, but the really unsettling moments are shrouded in the sly use of shadows and in the viewers’ imaginations of what we DON’T see even when Mi-jung photographs the horrors around her with her phone we’re 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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