Warning Do Not Play is a South-Korean horror that can proudly stand among the great Asian movies from this decade with a focus on filmmaking, One Cut Of The Dead and The Kirishima Thing among them. It is essentially a ghost story spanning decades which doubles as a cursed-object movie featuring frequently disturbing imagery – mostly of characters in a catatonic state inflicting self-harm – and while the scares can be bare-bones at times, the movie works best as a metaphor for the worst impulses of filmmakers today how they sometimes end up casually exploiting the suffering of others and misappropriate their stories in order to further their own image or to simply get ahead. On the brighter side, it also demonstrates how cinema can be a beacon of hope, making films an act of salvation, and how just pointing a camera at someone and shooting can be the best possible decision. When we first meet Mi-Jung, she’s having a nightmare of herself being alone in a movie theater, and she slowly wakes up and sees a blinking eye on her phone’s cracked screen. As if to foreshadow the movie’s themes, and its structure, this image is a great sum-up of the whole story that is to come it turns out that Mi-Jung is still dreaming, and when she wakes up for real, we get acquainted to her real plight she’s a horror filmmaker under heavy stress because of a looming deadline; if she can’t come up with a scary concept for her newest project in two weeks, she and the whole team will lose the gig. When she hears about an urban legend concerning a film supposedly directed by a ghost that caused walkouts and heart-attacks, she travels to Daejeon to find it. Mi-Jung is immediately likeable, but she can be immensely manipulative as well. She will have her way no matter what. After she doesn’t get anywhere with the film university staff, she meets three male film-school students in a bar, chatting about Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve the movie uses intertextuality to great effect, and its approach feels universal – it’s a story that can be placed into another geographical area without it losing much of its meaning one of the funniest lines is Your work suffers because you just can’t accept Nolan!’, but the sleek cinematography that can feel like a tour-guide to a haunted house, and the stunningly rich color palette are there for diehard Asian cinema fans to enjoy. She promises to grant them any wish if they can come up with a scary story from the Daejeon region. ANY wish?’, one of them replies, and they start arguing among themselves until all three end up sharing the same story, one related to the same haunted’ film from before. The protagonist is no stranger to stealing either. After getting her hands on a clip from the movie, she manages to track down the director and plans to get the full version somehow. What happens in the second act, after the more investigating an urban legend’ feel of the first one, can seem like standard Asian horror there are definitely some 10 to 15 minutes that feel too minimal, too focused on jump-scares rather than on the actual characters, as the true nature of the film comes into play and Mi-Jung has to fight for her life. What she actually does is just walk around slowly with bated breath while the film is teasing the viewer with the obvious scare waiting just around the corner, and while that can be a plus for atmosphere, it also clashes with what came before and might lose some viewers. But worry not just stick with it. It not only recovers from almost having devolved into a standard, low to mid-tied Asian horror, but it also ends up being an excellent example of a frame story, while perfectly using the show, don’t tell’ principle it includes found-footage elements to tell the tale of the cursed film, and makes the characters behind the original movie feel like actual people, by using clever parallels between them and Mi-Jung and benefiting from some truly creative camerawork. It never ever tells you that it’s about filmmakers exploiting real people and their suffering for personal gain, becoming more distanced from reality and their own humanity – it just lets you witness that first-hand with almost every scene, and carries multiple meanings. The best thing about the movie, besides its visuals and storytelling, is the character development. The original film director is a former shell of himself because of past events, and Mi-Jung’s transformation in the film’s climax occurs within a split-second – a result of her survival instincts, but also the fact that she might be different from the get that footage no matter what’ school of thought. Whether she truly changes or is just more clever and devious than the other characters and finds a way to justify her behavior, of if she chooses to just ignore the past, that’s up for interpretation. As such, the movie illustrates how the current generation of directors can borrow from what came before them, ranging from gentle homage to blatant plagiarism, but can also subvert and refocus. Like the character development and what it actually signifies in the larger picture, the film’s twist ending can be interpreted in a lot of ways it serves as a cautionary tale for the viewer, but also perfectly illustrates what exactly Mi-Jung has lost in her journey of recovering the movie Missing and forcing her way into the director’s seat. As such, it is a pitch-perfect ending to a film that manages – in just 86 minutes – to mix urban legends with curses and angry ghosts, while rarely letting go of its characters, their inner world’ and their journey. The film’s structure and approach to scares can be similar to that of Ringu or Ju-On, but the whole package feels closer to underappreciated, but ambitious J-horror oddities from before 2010 like Orochi and the new wave of Western horror movies, because of its metaphorical aspects. Seo Ye-Ji delivers a breakthrough performance here, and the fact that it almost works as a straight-up scary movie – if you choose to ignore the subtext – is a result of director Kim Jin-Won’s ambitious grasp. Warning Do Not Play can be seen on Shudder, or acquired from major VOD platforms, and comes highly recommended. More Film Reviews No Escape is a 1994 American action sci-fi, based on the novel The Penal Colony written by Richard Herley. 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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…

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 Report

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.

Shudder Shudder continues to impress fans with its exclusive content. Shows like The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and Cursed Films are getting considerable buzz, while the films they’re securing exclusive streaming rights to are reliably worth a look. Such is the case with one of the newest offerings, Warning Do Not Play. This South Korean horror effort is from director Kim Jin-Won 2007’s The Butcher. It follows Mi Jung, a young director who’s been preparing a new film for 8 years. She finds herself entangled in pursuit of an infamous banned film that was supposedly made by a ghost. Her search for the film leads her into a web of horror and deceit that she and those around her may never escape. RELATED Shudder’s One Cut of the Dead’ Coming to DVD/Blu-ray Warning Do Not Play is often effective in its use of tension and atmosphere, despite some distracting use of jump cuts and close-ups. There is some imagery that is also quite chilling. With that said, much of the creepy elements of this film feel a little recycled. There’s nothing particularly cutting edge with the design or style of Warning Do Not Play, and it ultimately ends up not being very memorable visually. Much of the film’s strength is in its story. Not without it’s blemishes, the plot of this film spins a bizarre web of history behind the infamous ghost film and the theater that is central to the narrative. It almost feels like a dedication to the passion for movies. A scary statement about how far a filmmaker is willing to go to complete their films. Shudder’s newest exclusive is definitely worth a look. The story is engaging and the atmosphere is effective. What it lacks in style, it makes up for in execution. If Warning Do Not Play and the recent Japanese cult hit, One Cut of the Dead, are any indication, Shudder will be a good place to see new buzzworthy Asian horror films that are worth the watch. RELATED Clive Barker is Suing to get Hellraiser’ Back

June 9, 2020 In WARNING DO NOT PLAY, Mi-Jung Ye-ji Seo is a horror filmmaker in search of her next story. With only two weeks to deliver a script before her development deal falls through, the young writer begins to investigate the urban legend of a student film so frightening it caused chaos – and even a heart attack – at its premiere. But the salacious story doesn’t stop there. Rumor has it the picture was actually created by a ghost that killed the production’s crew before making the movie herself. Unfortunately, while there is plenty of lore surrounding the feature, there aren’t many facts. The filmmakers, and even the movie’s name, seem to be lost. The only clue Mi-Jung has is the name of the school the doomed film team attended. Things become increasingly spooky as Mi-Jung dives deeper into the mystery. Turns out the film was selected for a festival, but the screening was canceled. When she finally tracks down the director, the terrified Jae-Hyun Seon-Kyu Jin demands she forget the film and start “going to church.” Even the movie itself – when she finally gets ahold of it – appears to be a “making of” documentary rather than the fabled horror film. As the lines between real life and the film she’s hunting began to blur, Mi-Jung finds herself faced with increasing threats both tactile and supernatural. WARNING DO NOT PLAY is a terrific story that deftly expands on modern ghost tales and found footage film tropes to create something fresh. Writer/director Kim Jin-wons love of the genre is on full display as the story zooms around every twist and turn. The central mystery is compelling and keeps you leaning forward as Mi-Jung’s efforts uncover increasingly horrifying details of just what happened to the makers of this enigmatic movies. There’s really not a dull moment in the eight-six minute runtime. Along with cinematographer Young-soo Yoon, Kim creates some breathtaking images that will stick with you. One of the standout sequences comes when the supernatural elements first take hold. Kim and Yoon raise the visual stakes by balancing the stark white light of a camera phone with saturated reds and blues that would make Dario Argento proud. Indeed, red and blue are a subtle theme throughout this movie, with red acting as a surrogate for the menacing force unknowingly seeping into the protagonist’s life. But it’s not just the colors that are captivating. The best images in a ghost story are ones that recreate that gut-dropping moment when a shadowy outline tricks the brain into seeing a human form that isn’t there. It’s an important shot to nail, and Kim captures it perfectly. Ye-ji Seo carries the film effortlessly as the plucky horror-loving Mi-Jung; while Seon-Kyu Jin’s performance as the film-within-a-film’s director will leave you just as shaken as any spectral threat. So should you put WARNING DO NOT PLAY on your must-watch list? I think so. Just be forewarned. As Mi-Jung so perfectly says, “It’s a horror film, so definitely not a happy ending.” WARNING DO NO PLAY will premiere on Shudder Thursday, June 11, 2020. Author Recent Posts Adrienne is a writer and editor living in the rain clouds of Seattle. When she is not writing about horror for various websites and institutions, she's staring out the window thinking about commas as a production editor for both fiction and nonfiction books. The rest of the time she can be found screening strange and obscure films for anyone brave enough to join in the fun. Adrienne Clark Kim Jin-won Nightmarish Conjurings reviews shudder WARNING DO NOT PLAY Ye-ji Seo Movie Reviews Post navigation

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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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