Amjeon

Back in 2007, first time director Kim Jin-Won created an one of the most brutal films ever made. The Butcher was a snuff film entirely in first person. The two characters are strapped to chairs, giving helmets with cameras on them and brutally tortured in first person. The three men doing the torturing were filming their every move using handheld cameras.

This film was incredibly brutal and very real feeling. The director has not made another film since that. I was incredibly pumped to see that this director has made this new film for Shudder.

Unfortunately his new film isn't really great. They have some decent jump scares, great environments and the effects looked pretty good, however it has a lot of horror cliche's and the ending doesn't really do the film too much justice.

I think the film is worth a watch at least. I enjoyed it for what it was, I just wish it was better.

The Butcher was a better film. It was clever and unique for its time. Whilst it doesn't hold up too generously now a days, it still a cult classic.

RATED 4/10 Language: Korean

Very average horror flick and lot of scenes are easily skippable... its kind of mixture of various horror movie scenes and highly predictable.... Its not scary and not entertaining one also...

Watch this if you want to see a fragile "protagonist" crying, flailing and waving some sort of razor around for 25+ mins.

This movie has a promising premise, but everything falls apart bit by bit.

At the beginning, this film creates a good atmosphere of terror by scaring us, but that falls off throughout the film, little by little the story becomes boring and slow, ruining the promising premise. This premise is very interesting, but its poor execution means that the idea is wasted and the film is not worth watching, despite the fact that the story is related to the cinema. This film reflects the ambition that we have as human beings towards our profession and that we can do the unimaginable to achieve our goal, it also works as a criticism of film directors who, in some cases, are very demanding with their collaborators by demanding more than the expected. The film has very bad visual effects, everything looks very fake and visual credibility is lost, although the photography can be interesting and decent.

In this film, many things are not fully developed, as well as it fails to give us a good horror story despite the good premise and the promising idea that is not exploited correctly.

Probably one of the most irritating films I've seen in a very long time. Generally South Korean film is excellent but this one is, in my view, a real stinker.

"Warning: Do Not Play" starts of well enough and looks promising but then, for totally unfathomable reasons, heads off on an addled monsterous mystery tour. It took all my will power to see this thing through to its weak tea conclusion.

Its a shame too as the core premise is worthwhile, acting solid and cinamatics polished.

2/10.