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Audio Format: DD 2.0, DD 5.1 Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 Languages: Korean Subtitles: English, Chinese (T/S) Region Code: ALL Year Made: 2006 Running Time: 90 Release Date: 09/09/2008
In recent years, local horror film directors have struggled to break free from conventional formulas, seeking fear factors in ordinary and familiar places and people.
Mysterious beings appear in an ordinary high schools instead of typical haunted houses, and modern daily items such as mobiles and computers are used as deadly objects possessed by a ghost.
 Such efforts continue in new horror film "Apartment" ("A.P.T"), which transforms the modern residential space into the most dreadful place, and takes a critical look at individuals in the aviary-like place.
Directed by Ahn Byeong-ki and starring actress Ko So-young, the film revolves around Se-jin (played by Ko), a single successful woman living alone in an apartment.
Her neighbors start to die one by one, and she happens to find out that people are mysteriously killed every night, always at 9:56 p.m., when the light goes off in the apartment complex building opposite her own.
She's never really paid attention to her neighbors, let alone people living in an adjacent apartment, but now she has an urge to save them from their seemingly imminent deaths.
Although no one listens to her, she gets to learn about a secret her neighbors share about a paralyzed girl in the apartment who they take care of.
As the director is well known for hit horror films including "Nightmare" (2000), Phone (2002) and "Bunshinsaba" (2004), the film is stylishly rendered and has many enjoyable yet scary moments adapted from a popular cartoon that was serialized on the Internet.
Fear factors are developed and linked with social issues typically affecting apartments in big cities.
The most crucial blow to the film is in the end of the film when the secrets of the apartment are revealed through many flashbacks and dialogues, leaving little room for audiences to reason and think.
Se-jin, a young woman who lives in an old apartment in a Seoul suburb, amuses herself by observing the windows of the apartments on the other side. One day, she notices that the lights of some of these apartments are turned off at the very same time. She begins to suspect that this pattern is somehow related to a series of mysterious deaths in the neighborhood. She becomes more and more deeply involved as she attempts to solve the mystery.
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