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Warning: Do Not Play

Warning: Do Not Play

Horror · Mystery · 2019

A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.

Movie details

Warning: Do Not Play

“Watch at your own risk.”

2019 Horror · Mystery 1h 25m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.2 / 10

Community rating

A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Warning: Do Not Play?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Kim Jin-won

Written by

Kim Jin-won

Seo Yea-ji

Seo Yea-ji

Park Mi-Jung

Joo Jong-hyuk

Joo Jong-hyuk

Jung-min

Jin Sun-kyu

Jin Sun-kyu

Kim Jae-Hyun

Kim Bo-ra

Kim Bo-ra

Ji-Soo

Ji Yun-ho

Ji Yun-ho

Joon-Seo

Cha Yeob

Cha Yeob

Kwang-Bae

J

Jae-Young Joe

Young-Min

Court is in session

Put Warning: Do Not Play on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.