After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

There were times when any of us walk into IMDb, click on certain movie only to find that the rating was way underrated, and for this case I am afraid I am on that unease position. Only last weekend that I got the pleasure of watching this movie once again on blue-ray after the first viewing more than a decade ago and it certainly still hold its charm and value very much.First, when I say that this movie was underrated, I don't really blame anyone who might be disappointed or mislead by the fact that this movie very much suggest itself a mainstream supernatural horror movie but instead turn out to be more likely a psychological horror and thus gave a low rating to the movie. I can understand that this whole thing is part of market strategy since by the time of this movie being made horror genre are booming in Asian market and the producers might feel the urge to slip in even the slightest of a horror gesture. Yes, one can safely assume so.Back to the film itself, I am very much agree this was not a film for everybody. The pace was slow but never boring, it was mainly focus on three of our main characters throughout the movie. One is a taxi drive who was on the surface seems like a very decent and nice guy, second is a young and attractive woman who was a regular victim of domestic violence and third is a dime novelist with a work on progress to score his one hit wonder. All of three with their own dark and unpleasant past and all of three share the same creepy and slum apartment building. You are going to have a hunch from start that things are surely gonna turn nasty.The pace flow so slowly that it was more like a character study instead of a story. You can see how they joy and anger, their bright and dark side, their frustration, desperation and at certain point you might even be attempted to think that there might be supernatural involved. After all, some evidences strongly suggest that somehow our main characters were involved or part of the horrible past occurrence in that same apartment building, is it possible or it is all but cruel coincidence? In the end the movie left you with no blatant explanation, and just as confused as the main character might be, you are to take on your own interpretation.Final say, I strongly recommended this movie to any fans of horror and thriller genre. For once in a while you gonna find something precious among dirt. this is it!

Creepy & psychological, with ghostly possession of the apartment building and it's occupants.There's nothing overtly supernatural about the possession here, it's the creepy human actions that have no reason to be performed unless they were driven by unseen forces out for revenge and destruction. Nobody in this building should have this much creepy, bad luck.An scarred, emotionally dead, weird, childishly immature, 30-year-old young man moves into a dumpy apartment building where everybody is in fear. ***Spoiler***********He moves into the apartment, where a writer was killed in a fire after writing a novel detailing how a man beat his wife to death & set fire to the apartment to hide the body, abandoning the baby boy to burn. Oh, and that the ghost mother is orchestrating events to bring back her son to the building. Meanwhile, the barber/landlord is telling stories how there was a murder, fire and abandoned burned baby boy 30 years ago in the building. He has a photo of the Killer Dad, beaten mother and baby boy.The 30-year-old "Taxi-driver" meets a troubled gal at the apt., and strikes up a little friendship. (Her Dad had abandoned her after her Mom died mysteriously.) Next thing you know, she's accidentally killed her husband during her daily beating. (Also note, previously, that she accidentally killed her little boy, during the daily beating, the kid got unknowingly locked in the cupboard & suffocated.) She starts to act motherly towards him and take care of Taxi-driver. Boom, they are having an affair. They get in a fight, he kills her. He's killed before, there's a missing gal in his past, with her jewelry in his fridge, New girl found it, and the cops are investigating. He goes through her wallet, and there's a family photo, with the same Killer Dad, a different mother (rival to the other mother), and this girl.Hmmm, was it the ghost Mom, channeling through the writer to do the novel, to guide the troubled gal to kill her abuser, yet destroy her life and child because she is the daughter of the mother's rival? Did Mom channel through the son to strangle the girl with the new scarf she gave him, because there can only be one Momma parenting him?

An obscure brilliant film, but not recommended for the faint of heart. Yoon Jong-chan's masterful first feature film is a vision into the "heart of darkness" which relies on brilliant acting, cinematography and directing-- not gratuitous gore-- to tell a disturbing psychological horror story which hints at the supernatural. The beautiful and painterly visuals transform a drab tenement into a hallucinatory house of horrors without ANY special effects, cliché jump cuts, or loud sound effects.One of the best films I've seen in years. Left me thinking and questioning reality long after the film ended.Check it out-- if you can find it.

************CONTAINS SPOILERS**************Sorum has been advertised as ghost story and on the surface that is what it appears to be. But there is more about it and that is what makes this film so interesting. Other categories such as social drama or psycho thriller could also be applied to it. As a social comment on parent's behaviour works with some difficulties but it's a nice try. It is economically but brilliantly shot. Somebody has pointed out some similarities with the Sixth Sense, and probably the story is not the most original of all (somehow Barton Fink popped into my mind for its use of the building). Still it has really nice touches such as the story being the source of a novel in progress or is it the other way round?, exposing the dark side of every single character in the film. The supposed hero, the taxi driver, appearing to be the most sane and innocent of all of the characters who just had the misfortune of stumbling across a weird group of characters reveals itself as the craziest of all. The interconnections between the characters might have seemed a bit confusing specially the ending which many couldn't grasped (and here avoids the ultimate flaw of the Sixth Sense which makes use of flashbacks for everybody in the audience to understand what happened to Willis). Not really a scary film I still felt quite shocked by the climatic scene where the taxi driver kills his, yet unknown, half-sister by struggling her with the scarf she bought for him. A scene that under my view is the best of the film and moves this film away from the usual trickery of ghost movies. It is a one shot sequence played in hotel room which follows the development of a row between both characters that ends tragically. The discovery he makes later about his sister and the possibility he might be a ghost or not a real person at all or character from a novel has this sense of futility and not being able to control your own fate that makes the film a gripping experience. A reoccurring motif is water, in the shape of rain, lake, shower, toilet sink and functions not just a substitute for the lack of music in the film but also to create tension as when the beaten up woman opens the wardrobe, where we later discovered her son died suffocated, while we can still hear the sound of water going down a half blocked pipe.