South Korean horror films always brings cool things to the table, and this year Fantasia 2025 got another hit with “Noise”.
This new film from director Kim Soo-jin presents the story of Ju-young, a young woman who returns to the apartment she and her younger sister Ju-hee acquired some months before, after Ju-hee disappears. Ju-young, who has hearing impediment and wears hearing aids, has been away for some time due to work. But as soon as she returns into the apartment, her hearing devices start picking up eerie, creepy sounds that are apparently coming from nowhere.
(Note: In the Press jacket the character main name is “Joo-young” but in the film the subtitles shows “Ju-young”, so I’m going with that in this review)
Frustrated at the lack of help from the police, and without any clues to Ju-hee whereabouts, Ju-young also has to deal with her landlady, who wants to mitigate the news of Ju-hee’s disappearance because it could delay a deal from a realty company to buy (and apparently renovate) the apartment complex where they live.