Exist Within

"Exist Within" (사잇소리, 2022) — a South Korean thriller you can watch online on iFILM, running 107 minutes.

Eun-soo (Ryo Hwa-young) is a jobless aspiring writer with a competition deadline bearing down. The noise from apartment 501, directly above her own, turns into an obsession. She starts watching her upstairs neighbor Ho-kyung (Park Jin-woo) from a distance, then closer, then she bugs his apartment. He notices. What she eventually uncovers is not what she prepared herself for.

Korean genre cinema gets a lot out of ordinary spaces — walls, ceilings, a building at three in the morning. This film commits to that register and earns its ending. Stream "Exist Within" (2022) online on iFILM.