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.[1][2] A critical and commercial success, it grossed $21 million[3] on a budget of $2.2 million[4][5] and became the third most-watched horror film in South Korea after A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and Phone (2002).[6] It was later screened at the 20th Udine Far East Film Festival.[7] The film is regarded as one of the best of its genre, with some critics claiming that it "mastered" found footage horror.[8]