Eun-soo dreams of being a professional writer but in reality, has been jobless for quite a long time. While she is looking for materials to submit a contest exhibition, she gets sick of the annoying noise from upstairs and she wonders what is going on. She begins to watch over the owner of the upstairs and the guy Ho-kyung lives right upstairs, also realizes that Eun-soo is keeping her eyes on him. Eventually, Eun-soo witnessed the staggering truth. Another annoying noise again, the story is only able to exist in imagination, could it be real?
Sound
That noise becomes a character you can't unhear
Acting
Ryu Hwa-young's unraveling is uncomfortably raw
Direction
Kim Jung-wook weaponizes vertical space
Director
Kim Jung-wook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korean indie thriller scene has been quietly obsessed with 'gawi' (가위) pressure paralysis and ceiling horror since The Wailing—this is the apartment-dwelling, broke-millennial evolution.
The sound design was reportedly created by recording actual stressed floorboards in a 40-year-old Seoul villa; several festival audiences reported insomnia.
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