Sorum is a 2001 South Korean horror film and the feature film debut of director Yoon Jong-chan. Starring Kim Myung-min and Jang Jin-young, it tells the story of a young taxi driver who moves into a dilapidated old apartment building, the site of a brutal tragedy thirty years earlier. The film has been nominated for and won several awards.

Premise

Looking for a new start, a young taxi driver moves into Apt. 504 of an old tenement named Migum Apartments. He soon finds that the previous tenant died mysteriously, and everyone on the floor is connected to the man. After befriending the neighbor living a few doors down, he falls into an affair that sends them both down a dark path. But there's something else odd about the atmosphere in the run-down building. Does a ghost haunt those living here, or does the evil exist in those left alive?

Cast

Awards

2001 Sitges Film Festival 2001 Busan Film Critics Awards 2001 Blue Dragon Film Awards 2001 Director's Cut Awards 2002 Fantasporto International Fantasy Film 2002 Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema

Reception

Dread Central wrote, "Sorum is definitely a slow burn", but called the film's "subtle horror" effective.