Murder Death Koreatown

Murder Death Koreatown

In the past years, found-footage and mockumentary movies have been running low in numbers and popularity, and I'd wish for some kind of unlikely resurgence. With the slim amount of information we have available about "Murder Death Koreatown" , it's hard not to be a little excited for it, being a found-footage flick and all. Obviously, it's a fictitious movie, and a familiar marketing campaign choice, but cool nonetheless. It also seems to have majorly one guy under probably what's most of the crew positions, which I deem to be a bonus point.

This is one ordinary man's documentary crew on a spiraling quest to solve a murder that took place in his house complex. A woman has killed her husband, seeming inconsistencies have been seen around the crime scene, and our main character makes himself the unprepared civilian detective, trying to solve a mystery of maddening proportions. It's okay, it's enjoyable enough, provided you're into stuff served in this style. Our documentarian is the modern average Joe, a little hard to like at times, but got used to him, as the movie does speak to the viewer like a YouTube video, it feels like the kind, which allows for lower production qualities and generally smaller, mostly shorter, more personal projects to have a great and different effect than a, say, 90 minute movie. That's one of the characteristics that this film has going for it. It's also effective in regards of realism that it very likely has friends, relatives and non actor persons from their respective actual lives playing all the supporting characters. An absolute stand out for me was the homeless man whom the documentarian gets acquinted with, he added not only to the realism, but also worked with the plot. The more underwhelming flaw has to do with the plot as well, and it's in how the whole journey ends, kinda dropping ball on finishing the idea and opting for a more simplified outcome. There was a point the film tried to make, and somewhat managed, but to little satisfaction. Some dialogue jumped out as too stiff a little, some bits of acting were shadier than others, but it never gets bad-bad. As far as technical value goes, it is indeed a YouTube level production, possibly entirely filmed with a phone, but that's part of the magic in this genre of horror.

Somehow, I got expectations a little higher than this, but it turned out to be a decent supplement for the lack of f-footage horror movies on my plate. If you dig them, try giving this one a chance. My rating: 5/10.

Do not waste your time with this horrible film. How this was even marketed is beyond stupid. Guy behing the camera is a complete idiot. It was an endurance trial listening to the dialog of the rude, whiney, unconvincing charachter. The movie picks up speed like a ball of dung picks up more dung rolling down a dung pile. Probably the worst, most nonsensical, boring, idiotic found footage film ive ever seen.

It was presented as if it was going to be very mysterious and it was just listening to the gentleman talk. The most interesting part was the gentleman from the alley who mentioned he served in Nam.

I spend my spare weekends digging through found footage recommendation lists for gold and when I found this I thought it could've been something really great. It was a waste of time. Listen to the bad reviews they are more than fair and true. This movie has no plot and no pacing whatsoever. It just is bad. And the fact that they used real people's reactions to a real murder without their knowledge is very messed up. There's no redeeming quality to this movie. If you want to watch a found footage movie about a descent into madness than watch My European Nightmare it will give you what you were looking for and more.

I was super disappointed at the end of this movie. The build up was ok, but there was no payoff. It was the same thing over and over again with this irritating and manic dweeb obsessing about something that clearly no one cares about. He doesn't want to let it go so he drags us on his weird quest. Instead of adding new things each time incessantly circles the block, we're again treated to the same old crap. This had potential. It just didn't give us anything to think about. The main guy was so annoying I was rooting for whoever or whatever was the mysterious antagonist.

I also wasn't buying his little secret he lets you into midway. It was stupid. I don't know ifI want to put myself thru that again.