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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.
This category is for films which are set in psychiatric hospitals or insane asylums ... (1972 horror film) Asylum (2005 film) ... House on Haunted Hill (1999 film) ...
“Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum” was a commercial hit in its native South Korea attracting more than 2.6 million viewers and $21 million in box office takings, becoming the second highest grossing ...
Session 9 is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Anderson and Stephen Gevedon. It stars David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Lucas, and Gevedon as an asbestos abatement crew who take a clean-up job at an abandoned mental asylum amid an intense work schedule, growing tensions, and mysterious events occurring around them.
[43] Joe Leydon of Variety gave the film a favorable review, noting its "cheap scares," but adding: "Given the irredeemable cheesiness of the original 1958 House on Haunted Hill, the makers of the remake had nowhere to go but up. So it's not exactly a stunning surprise to find the new horror opus is a slicker and scarier piece of work." [44]
Psychotherapist Stephanie Sarkis says maybe. After all, people cope with anxiety in a variety of ways. For some, horror is a useful way of releasing stress. For others, it only exacerbates it.
Variety was dismissive: "A notorious former insane asylum turns out — surprise! — to be a bad place to visit in this generic horror opus. Reasonably slick but empty, 'Eloise' is no Session 9 as far as haunted-former-mental-hospital horrors go. Heck, it's not even a Grave Encounters 2." [4]
The bloodshed wrought by Ronald DeFeo Jr. the morning of Nov. 13, 1974 was straight out of a horror movie, and eventually became one: the 1979 classic “The Amityville Horror” starring Margot ...