It's not over yet Noise, 1.7 million..Beat the Black nuns to become the biggest box office thriller of the year
Aug 06, 2025
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Based on the integrated computer network of movie theater tickets, 'Noise' surpassed 1.7 million cumulative viewers on the morning of the 6th, and 'Black Nuns' final audience exceeded 1,675,559, making it the most popular thriller of the year. This is the box office news following the break-even point of 1 million viewers on the 18th day of its release, and the 1.5 million mark on the 26th day of its release.
Having won the box office dark horse from Underdog and now the title of the highest box office thriller, 'Noise' shows the power of K-thriller at home and abroad with invitations to overseas film festivals and heated repercussions.
Director Kim Soo-jin, who received great acclaim at the recent Fantasia Film Festival, knows exactly when to re-open sensibly intense and instinctively terrifying scenes, and clearly reveals his talent by using familiar narrative structures as a gateway to ingenious and impressive horror (Cinapse)', 'Screen Anarchy', 'Thriller genre, which follows traditional styles while also excellently completing. Slowly seeping fear intersects with intense emotional outbursts (Eye for Films)', director Kim Soo-jin makes the audience fill the empty space with fear on their own. It proved to be a sensational horror thriller with "Horror Junkies", which is not just a great debut, but a sign of how new a horror movie can be when you trust silence as much as a scream. In addition, it will be officially released in Taiwan and Japan starting this week, and the success of 'Noise' is expected to continue in the long term at home and abroad.
'Noise' is about a real-life horror thriller in which a woman encounters a mysterious incident as she searches for her missing sister in a noisy apartment complex every day due to floor noise. Lee Sun-bin, Kim Min-seok, Han Soo-ah, Ryu Kyung-soo, Jeon Ik-ryeong, and Baek Joo-hee appeared, and it is Kim Soo-jin's first directing debut.
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