Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
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Hangul	곤지암
Hanja	昆池岩
Revised Romanization	Gonjiam
Directed by	Jung Bum-shik
Written by	Jung Bum-shik Park Sang-min
Produced by	Kim Won-kuk
Starring	Wi Ha-joon Park Ji-hyun Oh Ah-yeon Moon Ye-won Park Sung-hoon Yoo Je-yoon Lee Seung-wook Park Ji-a
Cinematography	Yoon Byung-ho
Production companies	Hive Mediacorp
Distributed by	Showbox
Release date	March 28, 2018 (2018-03-28)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	US$2.2 million[1][2]
Box office	US$21 million[3]

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (Korean: 곤지암; Hanja: 昆池岩; RR: Gonjiam) is a 2018 South Korean found footage supernatural horror film directed by Jung Bum-shik. Based on a real-life psychiatric hospital of the same name, it stars Wi Ha-joon, Park Ji-hyun, Oh Ah-yeon, Moon Ye-won, Park Sung-hoon, Yoo Je-yoon and Lee Seung-wook in the lead roles. The narrative centers around a horror web series crew that travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast to garner views and publicity, unaware that what they'll encounter will be the last thing they'll ever see.

The film opened theatrically in South Korea on 28 March 2018, in the United States on 13 April 2018, and in the Philippines on 2 May 2018.^[4][5] A commercial success, it also became the third most-watched horror film in South Korea after A Tale of Two Sisters and Phone.^[6] Later, it was screened at the 20th Udine Far East Film Festival.^[7]