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Sorum (2001)
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Synopsis: The moody Korean horror film SORUM is a slow-paced tale of a haunted building and haunted lives. Yong-hyun is a cab driver who moves into a dilapidated apartment building, living in a room where a terrible death took place years before. He meets the other residents on his floor, and discovers... The moody Korean horror film SORUM is a slow-paced tale of a haunted building and haunted lives. Yong-hyun is a cab driver who moves into a dilapidated apartment building, living in a room where a terrible death took place years before. He meets the other residents on his floor, and discovers that like him, they all carry with them the burden of a secret past. After Yong-hyun makes friends with an abused woman and an unsuccessful writer, events in the building slowly but surely take a series of surprising turns, leading them to suspect that a supernatural force is in effect. SORUM is like a subtle riff on THE SHINING, where the haunted pasts of its characters are drawn out by an eerie building with its own dreadful history. [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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The film's subtle horror is far more effective for me than if all the madness was front and center.
Its pacing is deliberate and demands strict attention until the movie's plot snaps into place towards the end...it's an unusually disturbing and haunting film.


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