ReviewAny creative type who has ever felt the pressure of a deadline or living up to lofty expectations can sympathize with Mi-jung. Producers pinned big investments onto Mi-jung’s big dreams when she became a hot up-and-comer following a successful short in a film festival. Now the fledgling director has to fulfill that promise with her overdue horror movie script, and she doesn’t know where to find gets a good lead from her friend Joon-seo. Joon-seo vaguely remembers an urban legend about a cursed student film whose creator claimed it was actually shot by a ghost. Joon-seo can’t recall the name of the movie or the director, but he does remember a rumor about an audience fleeing in panic when they screened the curiosity sufficiently piqued, Mi-jung starts sleuthing through film festival archives, online forums, and university student stories. At the end of the domino line, Mi-jung finally meets the man who made the fabled film. Physically and emotionally scarred, Jae-hyun is just a shadow of the upstart cinema student he was ten years ago. He responds to Mi-jung’s questions concerning his mystery movie “Warning” only with cryptic gibberish and violent by his deterrence, Mi-jung’s fascination with Jae-hyun’s film evolves into obsession. That obsession compels Mi-jung to steal a hard drive containing footage from the movie. With help from Joon-seo, Mi-jung starts scouring clips for clues about what really happened in the abandoned theater where Jae-hyun shot “Warning.” Mi-jung may have finally found the scariest horror story imaginable, but it may come with the cost of becoming a murderous ghost’s next terrified target.“Warning Do Not Play” is simultaneously difficult yet somewhat simple to review. It’s both of those things for the same reason. Essentially, “Warning Do Not Play” is such a straightforwardly streamlined little haunter, it doesn’t leave a lot to really dig into with detailed competent in technical terms like cinematography, lighting, editing, etc., no one thing in “Warning Do Not Play” stands out as particularly remarkable, although I don’t mean that in a belittling manner. It’s just a challenge to come up with anything eloquent or entertaining to say since “it’s fine” suffices as a summary for almost every element of the story basically boils down to a standard yet serviceable Asian ghost yarn. In addition to the bit about being based on an urban legend, you’ll see beats that typically go with this territory including a wronged woman who turns into a stringy-haired phantom and some squishy scares involving an eyeball popping up for sudden staredowns. The “cursed film” component covers trampled ground too, though it makes for macabre milieus including a spooky scavenger hunt to uncover the truth, a crackpot hideout for the demented director, and light “found footage” pieces to fill in the down to two remaining sentences in my scant screening notes, which is uncharacteristic considering how furiously I usually type or write while watching a film. One of those notes is only an observational aside about the movie’s odd penchant for having the director physically assault Mi-jung whenever he gets angry, with no less than three separate scenes featuring his hands around her throat. Honestly, I think my inability to come up with anything clever or constructive to add speaks more to the wispy impression “Warning Do Not Play” leaves than my inability to contribute meaningful not sure I can say more about the movie without sounding like a high school student effectively shrinking the margins to make it seem like I hit the minimum word count. The basic concept tells fans familiar with Korean horror what they’re in for, which is a medium temperature thriller favoring atmospheric suspense built from breadcrumb trail plot progression over frightful sights and visceral shocks. Set expectations no higher or lower than “average” and the film will meet you right there in the will stay dry. Socks won’t leave your feet. Your mouth might widen in a yawn well before your eyes ever do the same out of shock. “Warning Do Not Play’s” casual creepiness can cash checks for a momentary goose pimple or two. Your mind and your memory will merely have moved on to more resonant matters by the time you wake the next The film’s Korean title is “Amjeon.”Review Score 55
Mistake The performance review is a one-way, top-down process in which the boss serves as judge and jury of employees’ behavior and achievements on the job. Solution: Make it a two-way process, at the very least. (If you really want an effective review system, design a 360-degree system that involves peer reviews as well as a self-review.)Watched Aug 16, 2020 BurtonMacReady’s review published on Letterboxd Shudder has debuted several South Korean films as part of their 2020 Originals slate but only MONSTRUM seems to have made a sizable imprint on people. However, there was no way I was not going to end up watching a film called WARNING DO NOT PLAY with a plot description of “young filmmaker tries to find a film shot by a ghost”, especially after I saw the trailer for this on one of the Shudder TV streams. And I gotta say, I’m surprised by how there’s been virtually no talk of this. It is a mostly successful take on horror thrillers in the mode of SINISTER and RING/THE RING the film even seemed to take some plot points from Hideo Nakata’s earlier DON’T LOOK UP, particularly in the first half when it is focused solely on the investigating into the mystery. What helps it stand out and seem a little fresher is having the main character be a young director she is described as having had some successful festival shorts but is now struggling to develop a feature with a studio, which brings in such amusing unexpected moments as a hilarious debate among some drunk film students about Christopher Nolan. It really just seemed to be in lockstep with the actual types of discussions young movie makers and watchers have been having for the last few even more essential to the film’s success is the lead performance by Seo Ye-ji who is immediately assured and likable as the almost Hawksian protagonist with the basically all-male of entertainment industry around her as the club she must break into. You believe both her determination and brashness even as the supernatural horror of the film creeps in more and the film does increasingly come to rely on clichés and some excessive special effects until much of the tension established throughout is replaced with bigger but more pedestrian ghost attacks. The film also throws in a few too many plot turns way late in the game and while the film certainly drums up some successful scares, there’s times when too much is shown of the CGI and it takes you out. But even still, it runs only 86 minutes and is consistently effectively directed by Kim Ji-won. It doesn’t reach the heights of some of its influences but as a fun watch with some chills, it definitely should be seen by more people. Block or Report BurtonMacReady liked these reviews
Untukurusan horor, film ini cukup membuat penonton terkejut. Di dalam film horor ada film horor, bisa dibilang Horor-ception. Sayangnya, akhir film ini cukup tersesat dan membingungkan. Film Warning Do Not Play merupakan film horor yang memiliki premis menarik. Kita diajak menelusuri misteri film horor yang dibuat hantu. Rent Rent/buy Rent/buy Warning Do Not Play Photos Movie Info Terror strikes when a fledgling director investigates claims of a cursed student film. Genre Horror, Mystery & thriller Original Language Korean Director Kim Jin-won Writer Kim Jin-won Release Date Streaming Jun 15, 2020 Runtime 1h 26m Aspect Ratio Scope Cast & Crew Critic Reviews for Warning Do Not Play Audience Reviews for Warning Do Not Play There are no featured reviews for Warning Do Not Play because the movie has not released yet . See Movies in TheatersWhile 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.TeenInk, a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing, art, photos and forums. Students must be age 13-19 to participate, register and/or submit work.
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