Estranhos do Inferno

It's a rare type of Horror kdrama that Don't rely on ghosts or unnatural strength but they are really scary, it horror but not empty plot it have good point and it took that "humans are scary being" in a series note. and success in doing it. and even drag it to the disgusting level not just horror easily . all the character are scary in a different way and This what made the drama distinctive and give it strength. even in that moments when you feel tired in the half part from watching repeat murders/ torture. the characters hold you down bc you want to watch them more and what they will do. i wish i know more about their past put it's true that it didn't fit in the drama to tall stores.

the acting was great and if we going to give credit between plot or acting in this drama although the plot was good, the acting was the best in this drama, everyone portrayed his character perfectly, they amazed me by there acting skills.

Cinematography i think they did good in using that studio with narrow and suffocating rooms and their best was the lead dreams, i think they could do better in filming the murders it self, i didn't notice the music that much in this drama.

i like what they did in the ending it's really fit well with the story the drama build from the start and how the Mental control is the main force in moving everything and making the world around the person. " WE AREN'T STRANGERS, THE PEOPLE AROUND US MAKE US STRANGERS" not only the Eden Studio and Moon Jo was part of Jong woo' end but everyone> his gf(that never believed him), his office collage, his army days and the irresponsible police in his country.

Im Shi Wan / Yoon Jong Woo really did great job it was the first time i watch him and he amazed me he descript every emotion so well i fell to him. Lee Dong Wook / Seo Moon Jo never thought he can be scary character he is great actor for sure.
it's not something i can enjoy if i re-watch it's onetime drama that lose it's power after you know everything. Over all this drama did so well in it's Genres i give it 8.5

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I really expected a great drama. But no, I only felt bored. I was skipping 10 seconds for the sake of finishing this.

My expectation- gore, bloody, scary, disturbing and chilling (if this is the right term). IT. WAS. NOT. I watched this around 1am-3am or 4 but I did not feel scared at all. The only time I felt disturbed is when they ate raw meat.

The drama was very slow. I was expecting something right off at ep 1 since everybody's reaction about it was great, but nah. (Also since the drama is short, around 10 eps only).

Kudos to the man acting as twins, he was too annoying to be honest that I want to punch the screen every time I see his character. The perv one too but the twins were more annoying.

Siwan's GF looked like Ryujin lol.

My reaction watching this was saying "boring, boring, boring" over and over. The only time I was hyped was the ending. Extracurricular was better.

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Terrifying and creepy enough

Story:
As a psychological thriller lover, this was totally my type. I was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole journey and often forgot to eat while binging. Not to mention it was enough to make me lose my sleep those 2 days.

Acting:
10/10 Can you expect anything less from LEE DONGWOOK & IM SIWAN?? They're both legendary and so versatile. Apart from the the other actors were incredible too. Their perfect acting made me lose my mind abs question my existence for the time being.

Rewatch value:
I usually don't rewatch anything. My watchlist is too long. So probably not.

Overall:
It may not be your liking if you're not familiar with this genre. It may seem a little boring to you if you're used to too much melodramatic stuffs. But trust me psychological horror lovers this will blow your mind. I'm very much satisfied with the open ending. You can interpret it however you want. This is my ultimate favorite thriller drama.

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Not unexpected at all; the ending was totally spelled out

1. Story

a. Characters
I hate everyone. They all had such awful personalities or were completely stupid. The mc himself was completely stupid. If you're that creeped out of the residents, move out. idc how inexpensive that place is. Safety>>. Plus, the place was going to be redeveloped in 6 mos anyway so he was bound to move out and his pay just isn't enough.

On the otherhand, I hated his girlfriend too. Not once did she listen to him or even entertained his worries. I get it she's stressed too, but she said he should learn to defend himself so people wouldn't step on him, but she's the exact same—she always just let her boss bully her. Aside from that she can just rant about her life to him too? What is the effing point of being in a relationship when you cannot even rely on each other. L girlfriend. I hated her more than her boss and the MC's nerdy co-worker and boss.

Speaking of which, I was just waiting for them to die. Too bad it was just the ceo. Well at least the nerd got what was coming to him. I'm not an advocate for violence but don't bully people if you cannot handle the consequences.

b. Plot
As I said it made no sense for him to stay. If you feel that unsafe that it was making you crazy, leave. It wasn't like he absolutely did not have money. I'd so go back home if I can't stay at Seoul. There's no point in trying to make a living if I'm dead. It's just so stupid.

And I'm just not convinced by the scarriness of the antagonists nor their capacity to drive him to insanity. They weren't scary nor really good at their jobs really. They're sloppy. We're just told through the narrative or through camera work how scary they are. Like he killed them all so easily at the end even when they were so cocky.

2. Acting
It was solid. They were believeable except for their scarriness and all.

3. Overall
Expected ending and tbh boring. They could have expanded it more, could have shown us how deadly, capable, brutal and without empathy the antagonists really are but no.

I don't get whose minds were being blown at the ending. Unless you're a five year-old who has never seen a movie then it was pretty much spelled out that he would go insane and murder someone at least. He wasn't going to go out sane in any situation. Idc how that's rare in kdrama. There were literally no other options with how they set it up so no it was not u expected, not mindblowing and certainly not a masterpiece. They could have done more with the promise and could have actually made it terrifying and actually made the viewers question morality and sanity of humans.

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If this were the only drama available to watch in the whole wide world, I still wouldn't watch it

I made an account just to say how garbage this show is and I have no idea what other reviewers have in their brains, I read them and decided to watch this but it was painful to do so, I felt I had someone over my shoulder pointing a gun at my head to watch it. It's hard to watch especially with those stupid twins, I should've stopped watching it after 2 episodes but decided to carry on with hope of it being a good series. The only hope it gave me was to become a police officer because that female cop is completely useless. The only thing that has going for it is probably the intro music and thats it, felt like a cheap low budget adaptation to what seemed to be a great webtoon as heard from my Korean peers, and even they told me everyone else thought the drama was a complete letdown, so if you're a 14 year old kid with no sense of good cinema go ahead and watch it lol totally not recommending this to anyone. waste of time and can't believe I spent 10 hours on it.

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okay, I'm still recovering from the drama. I only have one question. why has this drama not got the attention it deserved? I could not find one flaw with this drama. I'm not exaggerating when I say this drama is a masterpiece.

Story: I could write pages just praising every line and every word of this drama. It unravels in an almost graceful way, revelation after revelation leaving me breathless. I couldn't stop watching but was too afraid to go to the next episode. There were scenes that gave me literal goosebumps. I had to pause at some scenes to just take in what was happening. I loved the pacing of the story, how each episode just gave us the right amount of fear and curiosity. I could slowly feel myself being sucked into the madness and it made me question myself. I didn't know who or what I was rooting for in the end. The subtle contrasts that I only noticed after rewatching it were really genius. I learnt a lot from the drama.

Acting: I couldn't ask for more from the cast. Everyone gave stellar performances. I can only imagine how hard it must have been for the cast to portray such complex characters but they truly did justice to it. their acting has left a lasting impression on me. one I will not forget for a long time. I have to especially appreciate Lee Dong Wook and Im Siwan. I could see the despair, madness and fear in Jung woo's eye. Moon Jo was like a super hot psycho that I wanted to hate but I mean how can I? just look at him, even his creepy smile made my heart skip a beat. I was scared and in love at the same time. Not to mention the chemistry between them which was like feeling the aftershocks of an explosion. I would love to see them act together in future projects. Everyone did outstandingly.

Music: the few osts that were there were really good however there were not many windows for it in the drama itself so I understand how they might not get the exposure it deserved but god damn was the background music creepy. it was not overdone. just the right amount of creepy music made the scenes thousand times more terrifying.

Overall: 100% recommend (unless you are easily triggered) I mean it is a psycho-thriller. The adrenaline rush I got from watching it is not something I will soon forget.
kudos to the cast and staff of the drama for this rollercoaster of a drama.

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Et si l'enfer, c'était chez toi ?!?

Tu commences le drama… et tu ne sais pas si t’es dans une auberge, un hôpital psychiatrique, ou tout simplement en enfer... 🤷🏼‍♀️, mais un truc est sûr, l’ambiance est glauque à souhait. J'ai senti le malaise dès l’entrée dans la résidence Eden 😵‍💫🔪

Lee Dong Wook... Une ENTITÉ GLACIALE 😱🩶, même avec le chauffage à 40°C, il te file des frissons dans l’âme... Zéro cliché... Juste une présence malsaine, subtile, ultra maîtrisée. Il sourit sans bouger un muscle, il parle doucement... mais je savais que je ne serais pas en sécurité en sa présence... Jamais !!! 🥶

Et tout le reste du cast ?!? Et bien standing ovation malaisante... La proprio creepy, le pervers, les jumeaux en bug mental permanent... Personne ne surjoue. Ils sont tous subtilement anormaux, et c’est ça le pire... 🤪🕷️

La vraie réussite du drama, c’est ça, tu ne sais plus si tu regardes un mec en danger... ou un mec qui devient le danger... Si c’est la vraie vie ?!? Son roman ?!? Ou juste un esprit en train de vriller pour de bon... Et moi, spectatrice, je sombrais avec lui, sans même m’en rendre compte… 😰📖😂

Et alors cette fin... Une fin ouverte, mais bien sombre et bien vicieuse. Il n’était pas un monstre… mais Eden l’a façonné comme tel... Ce n’est pas juste l’histoire d’un tueur… c’est la naissance du mal... En silence, sous nos yeux 😶‍🌫️🩸✌🏻

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HEAD TILTING

It's a lot darker when you feel inside the misery.

It the entire series, all we hear and see was Jong Woo's point of view. We weren't able to know what the weird ones really think or feel. And it'll remain a mystery.

The introduction was not really intriguing to me. I thought it's just the characters, Eden Studio residents, are creepy while Jong Woo was an innocent person who'll make those people pay from whatever they'll commit or blah whatever. It's only I wasn't that fond first. But it gets more interesting even the direction of the storyline wasn't what I expected but awed me eventually.

Overall feeling was creepy, thrilling, and mysterious especially the ending with no explanation. As I said, we don't know any backgrounds and the real reason of the residents. It's practically a cliffhanger for me aside I want more.

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The Best psychological thriller i ever watched !!!

short synopsis:- The main protagonist, Yoon Jung Woo (Im Si-wan) lives with his mother and an elder brother who suffers from a mental illness. After failing to find employment that fit his needs, one day his collage senior offered him a job in Seoul. He agreed to the offer and moved to Seoul.After arriving in Seoul, he found a motel in a redeveloped area which suited his budget, despite the fact that he would have to share the kitchen and bathroom with other residents. He eventually discovers that the other residents are strange and suspicious, mainly the dentist Seo Moon Jo (Lee Dong-wook).

The drama delivers a fantastic job of capturing the unpleasant and dark atmosphere of the small, filthy dorm with strange and frightening neighbors of a motel. The director and writer were successful in keeping the story moving at a steady pace while balancing the dark and horror elements.
Screenplay plays crucial to reveal plot twists in this drama and make to think the characters are illusional or real. And the characterizations perfectly designed like webtoon ( i haven't read )..
This drama acts like an eye opener to not ignore those who need help.
And the psychological manipulation does not just come from any one person or thing. It comes from people, their physical surroundings and the greater society.

Two main protagonists:-
Im Si Wan was excellent in his role given his career best performance and Lee Dong-wook, Compared to his previous roles, his character in this drama was entirely dii different. You'll witness a completely different side of Lee Dong Wook that highlights his versatility as an actor.


Finally:- Strangers from Hell gives the best psychological thriller experience with a superb cast, outstanding direction and Screenplay with a completely gripping story.

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So this drama has:
The most overreacting stereotypical boring psychopath. The other characters acting is alright, but they tried too hard to make this guy edgy.
Bad communication, ridiculous investigation, dumb decisions, cliches...
Unlikeable characters all around
Very annoying twin brothers
Worst girlfriend material
Very predictable "plot twist"
Everything is predictable from a mile away

And of course in the end our crime writer guy who got so brainfucked by the events of this show be writing "die" endlessly over and over again. Totally buying that of course.....

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A friend of mine loved this drama so I decided to give it a go. I had tried watching it once before, but had a hard time getting past the first episode. Since I've had more time recently, I pushed myself through it.

I have to admit that the acting is fantastic. As I was watching, I kept wanting to scream at the screen telling Jong Woo to get out of that literal hell hole. Everyone really did such a wonderful job playing characters that I hope are nothing like their real life personas ;)

However, I felt like ten episodes of this was too much and would have been done better as maybe a slightly longer film. Halfway, I was ready to call it quits again because it was not only a bit repetitive but also, such a drama is rather psychologically and emotionally taxing as well. I wonder if this would have been a drama that would have been better watching week after week rather than binging over the course of a few days.

I rated the rewatch value low since these dramas are hard for me to watch again, especially already knowing what happens. I'd say it's probably not a drama for everyone, but if the theme is up your alley, then it'd likely be a good one to check out.

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