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  Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★★½

  Around Christmas, a lonely career woman (Ko So-young) takes to spying on her neighbours in the adjacent high rise – only to notice a pattern of them turning their lights off in unison, which is inevitably followed by a suicide. After a few deaths, the voyeur Nancy Drews the supernatural case together, and tries to bring it to the authorities’ attention... only to discover that peeping is frowned upon.

  Korean Rear Window... with a ghost.

  APT is one of the early adaptations of webtoonist Kang Full’s work, brought to the screen by K-Horror regular Ahn Byeong-ki (Nightmare, PHONE). Model Ko So-young as binocular sporting voyeur is a bit of a hurdle, and not the first suspension of disbelief the script…

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  Review by Brian2359 ★★★½

  I watched Nightmare right before Apt, and one thing is clear—Ahn Byeong-ki must love J-horror. The two movies I’ve seen from him are clearly influenced by it. This isn’t a bad thing, as I personally love J-horror.

  Apt tells the story of a haunted apartment complex, and while it features familiar tropes like a woman in a red dress and cops not believing the person who sees the ghost, I still enjoyed it. Not as much as Nightmare, but I liked it.

  Overall, Apt is a 7/10 for me.

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  Review by Moresbi ★★★½

  Very, very reminiscent of J-Horror days (it seemed inspired in two very famous J-Horror movies and in an effective way).

  The plot/characters are razor thin (with one exception) and pretty much anything but the "core"/central story is very much "unimportant". There's a couple of twists, which I think worked well in adding to the thrilling part of the movie and keeping things going. The ending could be worse (felt somewhat adequate to what happened in the movie), though some decisions from some characters are almost surreal.

  I enjoyed the movie a bit more because it was strong in the horror elements (not necessarily the kills) and the main story actually "worked" (in a way and giving it some latitude, at…

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 ★★½

  World Tour 2020

  I know there are many out there on Letterboxd, like myself, who got swept along at the height of the J-horror and K-horror craze.

  But I wonder just how many of us are ready to look back and realise that the vast majority of those films weren't very good. They really weren't. This film's director Byeong-ki Ahn was responsible for, in my opinion, one of the better films of that whole craze, Phone. Although most people would even disagree with me on that.

  It's just remarkable how many of them got away with doing almost exactly the same things though. Take APT., a supernatural horror about a spate of 'suicides' in a Korean apartment block. It's the…

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  Review by Maris ★★½ 1

  Idk what I expected going into this, but it was exactly what I expected

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  Review by Margarita M ★★★½

  Thank you The Gazette for recommending this.

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  Review by David Willis ★★

  I've been meaning to check out some of Koreas take on the J-Horror craze in the late nineties, early two thousands and that yearning for my favourite comfort genre brought me to Apt, short for apartment (a missed opportunity to spell it like aPt or aPT.com or something dumb like that lol) last night. Directed by Ahn Byeong-ki, this manages to get most of the well-known J-Horror tropes in. We even get Kayako's eerie throat clicking sound from the Juon franchise. The premise is fairly decent; a young, ambitious Korean career woman (the phrase used in Japan for female salaryman) encounters a suicide on the, impossibly, deserted subway one night. Scrap that. She’s almost dragged onto the tracks by a…

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  Review by Dhaara D. Uchiha ★★★½

  Good Korean horror movie. But, ending twist was lame.

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  Review by Kelly Magovern ★★★

  A little generic as far as Asian horrors go, but still enjoyable if you're a fan of the genre.

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  Review by SwedishWargoat ★★½

  Mediocre "At 9:56 PM there is a suicide and we also see some sort of ghost-thingy" movie.

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  Review by Totosan ★½

  "Toilet Pictures" should have been a hint.

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  Review by jason 🧷 ★★★

  clearly very inspired by ringu as well as ju-on, and maybe even rear window, there's something that unfortunately fails here, when it did not in the others. the characters mainly aren't exactly well rounded, which is unfortunately to be expected from a webtoon adaptation, and a lot of the story itself is extremely predictable, though it does deliver on some of its scares.
  the acting was a pretty high point, and i really like the mid 2000s staple editing, but that's about it, really.
  still enjoyable for the most part, but don't expect too much. it's good if you have an hour and a half to burn, but other than that, there's nothing much here.