Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
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| Hangul | 곤지암 |
| Hanja | 昆池岩 |
| RR | Gonjiam |
| MR | Konjiam |
| Directed by | Jung Bum-shik |
| Written by | Jung Bum-shik Park Sang-min |
| Produced by | Kim Won-kuk |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Yoon Byung-ho |
Production company | Hive Mediacorp |
| Distributed by | Showbox |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | $2.2 million |
| Box office | $21 million |
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (Korean: 곤지암; RR: Gonjiam) is a 2018 South Korean found footage supernatural horror film directed by Jung Bum-shik, who co-wrote it with Park Sang-min. Based on the real 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 as the members of a horror web series crew who travel to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast to garner views and publicity.
The film was released on 28 March 2018. A critical and commercial success, it grossed $21 million on a budget of $2.2 million and became the third most-watched horror film in South Korea after A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and Phone (2002). It was later screened at the 20th Udine Far East Film Festival. The film is regarded as one of the best of its genre, with some critics claiming that it "mastered" found footage horror.