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The film was the 9th highest grossing Korean film in 2010, with a total of 3,042,021 admissions nationwide.[4] The Chosun Ilbo commented that the film was good for families.[5][6] Cha Tae-hyun found his role challenging, especially because it required him to smoke cigarettes, which he does not do in real life.[7][8]
Sang-man (Cha Tae-hyun) is a depressed man who is unsure of his past and who his family is. He attempts to commit suicide by overdosing on pills, but fails. He then jumps off a bridge into a river, but is saved. Brought to the hospital, Sang-man awakens and sees a man smoking next to him. He tells the other hospital patrons, but no one believes him, as they cannot see this man. During his stay in the hospital he eventually meets four other people nobody can see: a young, elementary school student; an old man; and a sad young woman who frequently cries. Sang-man discovers that they are not people, or hallucinations of his, but ghosts. Meanwhile, Sang-man meets nurse Jung Yun-soo (Kang Ye-won) at the hospital, becomes attracted to her, and feels the urge to flirt with her, but does not.
After being discharged from the hospital, Sang-man goes back to his apartment, followed by the ghosts. He asks why they are there, but doesn't get an answer. He visits a shaman to ask for help. He learns that the ghosts are using his body to experience their unfulfilled desires, and he cannot die until they have moved on. After a few unsuccessful attempts to get rid of them, Sang-man gives up. He agrees to help the ghosts, in exchange for them leaving him alone so he can die.
The old man ghost wants to return a camera he took from his friend while he was alive back to his friend. The smoker ghost wants to get his taxi back and drive it. The kid ghost wants to watch a cartoon movie. The last ghost wants to cook and to eat together with people she cares about. Sang-man does these things to appease the ghosts (as well as swimming at the beach at the smoker ghost's request), at first feeling odd about it, but these events also lead to him getting to know Yun-soo better.
Yun-soo's father dies, and his ghost asks Sang-man to deliver a message to her, along with a gift that he wanted to give her before his death but could not. Sang-man delivers her the message and tells her that it is from her father, but Yun-soo does not believe him and tries to push him away, growing more hysterical about his father's death, but she realizes that Sang-man is telling the truth when she sees her father's last gift for her, and is affectionately drawn to him, and the two become good friends.
Despite his friendship with Yun-soo, Sang-man remains rather sad, and cannot shake his suicidal urges. He tells the ghosts to leave him alone, having fulfilled their requests. When he wakes up the next morning, the ghosts are gone. Locking himself up in the taxi, he prepares to commit suicide by CO poisoning. However, he gains a new appreciation for his life as he thinks upon how he helped the ghosts and his friendship with Yun-soo, and abandons his suicide plans. He asks Yun-soo out for lunch, and she accepts. She tells him of a patient that recently died, a boy who lost all memories of his parents from extreme shock. When Yun-soo asks about the parsley in the kimbap, Sang-man remembers that his mother used to put parsley in kimbap instead of spinach. To his shock, Sang-man recalls his mother's face, and realizes that the crying ghost was his mother.
He runs to his apartment, fully recalling the true identities of the ghosts: his father was the smoker, his grandfather the old man, and his older brother the kid. On a family trip, the taxi his father drove and was hit by a truck and pushed off a road. Sang-man, the only survivor, lost his memory and grew up in an orphanage, and realizes that the ghosts returned to him in particular in the hopes that he would remember them, and that Yun-soo told him about that patient because she suspected he had lost his memory for a similar reason. Sang-man tearfully apologizes for sending the ghosts away and calls out to them. One by one they appear, thank him for remembering them, and assure him he is not alone, aiding him in learning to combat his depression.
The movie ends with a series of photos taken of Sang-man, from his school days, his graduation, to his wedding with Yun-soo. In every photo, the ghosts of his family member appear, but even in photograph form they are visible only to him.
In the post credit scene, Yun-soo finds the photos and remarks on how he is alone in most of them, as she cannot see the ghosts in the picture. Their young son asks about the people standing around him. Sang-man realizes the little boy can see ghosts too.
The film opened theatrically in South Korea on 28 March 2018 and in the United States on 13 April 2018.[4][5] A commercial success, it also became the third most-watched horror film in South Korea after A Tale of Two Sisters and Phone.[6] Later, it was screened at the 20th Udine Far East Film Festival.[7]
Two boys are recording their exploration of the abandoned Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, where rumor states that the ping pong-loving director of the hospital killed all of the patients and went missing. The two head to Room 402, the intensive care unit, which no one has been able to open before. They try to open the door but suddenly hear a ping pong ball. Their broadcast abruptly ends but not before catching a glimpse of a ghostly face. After seeing news of the teenagers' disappearance, Ha-Joon, owner of YouTube channel "Horror Times", decides to explore the building.
Je-Yoon and Ah-Yeon try to open the door to Room 402, while the other four explore the "Group Treatment Room," where there are many strange coffins with holes in them. When Ji-Hyun puts her hand in a hole, her hand is pulled and wounded. Disturbed, Ji-Hyun and Charlotte decide to abandon the project and leave the asylum. Ha-Joon reviews footage of all six participants standing together and becomes disturbed as well, unsure who filmed it if all six were in the shot. Seung-Wook and Sung-Hoon, unsettled from seeing actual paranormal activity, continue onward with their scripted investigation after receiving a promise from Ha-Joon that they will receive more pay if they do. They see a wheelchair moving by itself in the basement. Everything in the room begins to float, and both boys are knocked out by flying objects. Seung-Wook awakes and is dragged away by an invisible force.
Sung-Hoon, Je-Yoon, and Ah-Yeon find themselves in a dark room with no exit, standing in knee-deep water. Numerous ghosts appear and they are possessed one after the other and eventually swallowed by the darkness. Ha-Joon, seeing his view count nearly reaching 1 million views, goes to investigate and gets strangled to death, seemingly by the ghost of the director herself. The last one remaining, Seung-Wook, awakens and finds himself strapped to a wheelchair and is the final one to be pulled into Room 402.
The film takes place in the former Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, purportedly one of Korea's most haunted locations. In 2012, CNN Travel selected it as one of "7 freakiest places on the planet."[8][9]
Most of the scenes in the film were filmed in the National Maritime High School in Busan, with the production team adhering closely to the floor plan of the actual hospital to recreate exactly the same exterior and hallways.[10]
Before the release of the film, the owner of the asylum filed a lawsuit against the film being shown in theaters, claiming that the film will have negative effects on the sale of the building. However, a Seoul court in late March 2018 ruled in favor of the film being shown.[11] On 28 May 2018 Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital was demolished.[12]
In April 2018, just days after the film was released, actor Lee Seung-wook who made his debut with the film announced his departure from the entertainment industry. The actor, who was reportedly absent from promotional activities for the film, cited personal reasons for the decision.[13]
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum came in first at the domestic box office on March 28, 2018, alongside the openings of Hollywood film Ready Player One and local film Seven Years of Night, collecting US$1.2 million from 198,369 admissions.[14] Remaining at the top spot for the next four days, the film earned US$10.2 million from 1.37 million admissions in its opening weekend and accounted for 40% of the total weekend box office receipts,[15] the biggest March opening ever achieved by a Korean film.[16]
After three weekends, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum has attracted near to 2.6 million viewers and accumulated US$21 million in box office takings, the second biggest gross for a Korean horror film, behind 2003's A Tale of Two Sisters.[17][18]
Aedan Juvet of Bleeding Cool claimed the film "mastered" found footage horror, naming it amongst some of the best of its genre.[19] The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 91% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10.[20]
*1 although vaguely defined in the film, things are much more fleshed out in the manga and TV series. Although the two differ, they both have the main centre of the action as the fictional Japanese city of Niihama, built on reclaimed land in the Seto Inland Sea following the complete destruction of the Greater Tokyo area in World Wars 3 & 4
Like Japanese horror, Korean horror focuses a lot on the psychological and the twisted. Family is usually depicted as both the horror itself and the reason to fight back, as family is an important part of the culture. In contrast to American horror, themes reflect and express problems in society, including classism, the education system, and obsession with social image. With great Korean directors helming these films, it's no wonder why American directors name them as influences.
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