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Today I'll show you a horror film: "Gonjiam, Haunted Asylum"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The film is about a group of people who explore an old abandoned mental hospital
The film relies heavily on the character's own cameras to tell the story
This gives it a more realistic feel
It makes the viewers feel as if they were with the characters themselves
It feels slow-paced at the beginning
but once the scary stuff happens, it doesn't stop
The creativity in the story gives us a fresh take with this overly familiar trope
While we didn't get to fully hear the story of the haunted asylum, it leaves us wanting more
This film is a great commentary on how people use tragic incidents to gain profit and attention
It also asks us the question, "How far would you go for money?"
The film opens with the recording of two teenage boys who are exploring an abandoned asylum,
called the Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital
During their broadcast, they brag about their bravery in entering the haunted asylum
They are in front of the door to Room 4 0 2; and as they try to open it,
they hear a ping-pong sound; and the video cuts off with a face inside one of the rooms
We learn that these two boys disappeared after going into the asylum
Little did they know that their "little" scheme would scar them forever
Ha-Joon, who owns the Youtube channel "Horror Times", recaps the news in his Youtube video
He is briefly summarizing the hospital's history, including the rumors surrounding it
His Youtube videos are becoming popular in pop culture
The asylum was awarded for being the best mental hospital in the 1960's
but it was shut down due to mass suicides, and the disappearance of the hospital director
The rumors vary from one another
Some say that it was a torture facility disguised as a hospital;
or that the Japanese soldiers killed and buried Korean citizens there
but the most famous one is that the director killed all the patients, and hung herself afterward
Ha-Joon announces that Horror Times will be doing an exploration of Gonjiam Asylum,
which he will be doing a live broadcast of
He decides to form a group of six people: Ah-Yeon, Charlotte, Ji-Hyun, Sung-Hoon, Seung-Wook,
and Je-Yoon for the live broadcast
Out of the six, Charlotte has visited three out of the Top 7 haunted places listed by CNN
They all meet up at a café to discuss their plans for exploration
Here, Ha-Joon reveals that he wants to hit one million views to earn from ad revenues
While they are drinking, they discuss more about the rumors surrounding the hospital
They say that no one has ever seen the ghost of the director, only the patients and high school girls
Apparently, high school girls used to go there to test their nerves
but after going in there, they either commit suicide, get in accidents, or get into a coma
The group is in agreement that they all want to go into room 4 0 2,
which no one has ever opened and lived to tell the tale
During their road trip to the asylum, they spin a camera around, to decide who's going to open the door
It lands on Je-Yoon, who is definitely unhappy that he has to do it
They all go for a swim before arriving at their location
When they reach their destination, the asylum's main entrance was barricaded
so they had to enter through the back to avoid the patrolling police officers
Outside of the hospital, they set up camp with the equipment needed for the broadcast
Before officially starting the broadcast,
Sung-Hoon and Seung-Wook go inside the asylum to install surveillance cameras
They all have dinner together, before preparing for the broadcast
They set up two cameras on their bodies,
one that shows their point of view, and one that shows their face
As they are walking to the hospital, they do a video camera and mic test
A bird suddenly flies from the trees, which startles them
They also find a white underwear in the trees, which they decide to use as a marker
When they reach the entrance, they hear police sirens
They cover their lights and stay quiet, so that they would not get caught
The scenes are getting more intense as they hide from the police
On the entrance, they find graffiti that says, "Enter and die" They start the broadcast here,
with Seung-Wook acting as the main host for the stream
Ha-Joon is left behind at their camp, where he gives them directions
They enter the building through the stairs that lead to the second floor,
where the sides are lined with rooms
Ji-Hyun and Charlotte go ahead of them, to set up a small dish of holy water with a camera
This is so that they can capture the holy water's reactions
While Seung-Wook is introducing the viewers to the second floor,
the door to the director's office slams shut
This prompts them to explore the room
They see several photographs inside, including photos of the patients, the staff, and the director
Here, they discover that the director plays ping-pong,
which could be the explanation for the reports of ping-pong sounds in the asylum
They are startled when they hear a noise, and see something that resembles hair from the ceiling
The group splits up to do separate explorations of the hospital
Seung-Wook and Sung-Hoon go back into the director's office to set up a ritual,
while the others are on different floors
Charlotte and Ji-Hyun are on the first floor, also known as the basement
Here, Charlotte signs her name on a wall with spray paint,
to celebrate her fourth visit to a haunted place
Under her name, there was graffiti with the words, "Let's live"
They walk down the corridor, which is filled with graffiti and words
Their light keeps turning off
They decide to go into the laboratory, where there is water leaking all over the room,
medical records all over the floor, and broken furniture
They also find a lot of shattered tiles, medical tools, and medicine bottles
In a cabinet, they find a strange-looking doll
As Charlotte is about to take a photo of what they are finding,
she shatters a bottle with a dead chicken inside of it
After Charlotte and Ji-Hyun's part of the broadcast, we switch to Je-Yoon and Ah-Yeon,
who are on the third floor
They find a broken ping-pong table and a dead bird during their exploration
They go into the shower room
Je-Yoon explains to the viewers how they set up cameras in this room,
and shows them the stain on the wall that resembles a person
They proceed to the bathing room
Je-Yoon freaks out when he sees a wig floating in the bathtub
Ah-Yeon picks this up with a stick, and points it at Je-Yoon to spook him
We switch back to Charlotte and Ji-Hyun
They are on the fourth floor, where they set up cameras that detect movements
They stand in front of room 4 0 2, and explain to the viewers that anyone who has tried to open it,
has either died or become unconscious
They make an attempt to open the door,
but it wouldn't budge
They head back to the director's room to do the ritual
The room is set up with red strings and bells, an amulet with a spell, mullet, candles, and incense
The purpose of this is to call out the ghosts
Ah-Yeon is conducting the ritual
They all sit down to observe what will happen
The candlelight started flickering before being blown out
The bells start ringing, before falling down from the ceiling
The group runs out in terror
After this, Sung-Hoon and Sung-Wook have a separate conversation with Ha-Joon
This is where we find out that they had scripted what happened during the ritual
After this conversation, the small kitchen range in Ha-Joon's tent turned on
The monitors and lights turn off
They turn back on, and he continues the broadcast
The group proceeds to go into the lab on the first floor
They notice that the room smells weird
Charlotte notices that the doll they had found before is in a different spot from before
The doll turned out to be the same doll in the photo that they found in the office
Charlotte freaks out when Seung-Wook holds the doll, and runs out of the room with Ji-Hyun
She scolds them afterward, saying that they shouldn't touch anything in places like that
Je-Yeon and Ah-Yeon went to the fourth floor to install more cameras
Seung-Wook, Sung-Hoon, Charlotte, and Ji-Hyun go to the collective care room
They find wooden closets that look like coffins, with holes located at the chest level
Seung-Wook sticks his arm inside one of the holes, and pretends to have his arm pulled inside
When Ji-Hyun puts her arm inside, for a second, nothing happens
Then, she starts to scream as her arm is pulling inside
When she manages to pull away, there are long scars on her arm
The wooden closet's door slowly opens; and Charlotte's scarf is pulled
The group runs out
Charlotte and Ji-Hyun become even more distressed,
when they notice that the words under Charlotte's signature changed to "Let's die"
They decide to leave the asylum, and go back into the tent
Ha-Joon rewinds the footage to confirm if the words had really changed
He lies to Seung-Wook and Sung-Hoon about this, saying that the words had always been "Let's die"
He struggles to convince them that nothing scary was happening during their exploration
Seung-Wook gets upset, and cuts off his radio from Ha-Joon
He has a conversation with Sung-Hoon;
and they both agree to continue the broadcast if they get a bigger share from the ad revenues
Meanwhile, Charlotte and Ji-Hyun find themselves lost,
as they notice that they passed by the underwear marker more than a few times
Charlotte becomes more terrified,
when she notices that the items they found in the laboratory, are on the ground
She looks up to Ji-Hyun, who is behaving strangely
When she pokes her, Ji-Hyun's eyes open
Her eyes are completely black; and she is muttering under her breath
Charlotte gets pulled up by the hair
She runs to the tent
But upon entering the tent, she discovers that she is back inside the hospital
Seung-Wook and Sung-Hoon go to the shower room
They hear a noise from the supply room; and Ha-Joon commands them to enter it
When they get inside, they see a wheelchair move on its own
The door behind them shuts close; and the furniture is suddenly on the ceiling
When the furniture crashes down, objects start flying around, which knocks Seung-Wook unconscious
Sung-Hoon gets pulled outside of the room
When he runs back into it, the door slams in his face and he becomes unconscious
Charlotte and Ji-Hyun are inside the hospital, with Ji-Hyun still possessed
When Charlotte looks down, the doll they found earlier is on her foot
When she looks back up, there is a naked man with a scar on his chest
She tries to open the door
she bangs on it loudly, but it does not open
The man drags her into the darkness
Sung-Hoon wakes up, and runs to Ah-Yeon and Je-Yoon, and begs them to leave with him
He confesses that they scripted the ritual, but that everything that is currently happening, is real
A ping-pong ball gets thrown at them
They hear Charlotte scream inside room 4 0 2
They try to open the door
but it would not budge
A presence slowly approaches them from the other side of the corridor
Room 4 0 2 opens; and the video cameras black out
When they turn on their lights, they find themselves in a room filled with knee-deep water
Someone tries to cover Ah-Yeon's and Je-Yoon's eyes with their hands
When Sung-Hoon checks the camera, he sees a high school girl
When he checks again, he sees the hospital patients
Ah-Yeon gets possessed, then Je-Yoon, then a girl screams at Sung-Hoon's face
Ha-Joon decides to go inside the hospital himself to finish the exploration
When he gets inside, he calls out their names but gets no response
As he is looking outside a window, he feels a presence behind him
When he checks in the cameras who it is, it turns out to be a woman with a bloodied mouth
She strangles him to death
Seung-Wook wakes up to find himself tied to a wheelchair in the hallway
He calls for them
but no one is there
The wheelchair moves to face him towards room 4 0 2
As the wheelchair moves towards the room,
he sees the patients' faces in the rooms lining up the hallway
When he gets inside, the door slams shut
In the end, it is revealed that the broadcast was cut off,
when Seung-Wook admitted that they had scripted the ritual
Their views dropped, with the viewers believing that everything is staged
In the final shot, we see the holy water Charlotte set up beginning to boil
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