Character Relationship Map: Warning: Do Not Play

Characters

• Park Mi-Jung (played by Seo Yea-ji) — protagonist
• Jung-min (played by Joo Jong-hyuk) — supporting
• Kim Jae-Hyun (played by Jin Sun-kyu) — supporting
• Ji-Soo (played by Kim Bo-ra) — supporting
• Young-Min (played by Jae-Young Joe) — supporting
• Soon-mi (played by Jo A-ra) — supporting

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Ji-Soo → Young-Min (Alliance Crewmate)

  Ji-Soo and Young-Min are both identified as members of the crew brought to the abandoned theater.

• Park Mi-Jung → Young-Min (Alliance Crewmate)

  Park Mi-Jung brings Young-Min with the crew to film the staged documentary in the abandoned theater.

• Park Mi-Jung → Ji-Soo (Alliance Crewmate)

  Park Mi-Jung brings Ji-Soo as part of the crew to the abandoned theater to shoot a fake documentary.

• Kim Jae-Hyun → Soon-mi (Conflict Haunting Adversaries)

  Kim Jae-Hyun says that Soon-mi remains connected to the theater and later states that she killed his crew.

• Park Mi-Jung → Soon-mi (Narrative Investigator And Subject)

  Park Mi-Jung investigates the legend that Soon-mi became a ghost and created the cursed film.

• Park Mi-Jung → Kim Jae-Hyun (Conflict Adversary)

  Kim Jae-Hyun demands that Park Mi-Jung remove her post and stop investigating, while she refuses to abandon the project.

• Park Mi-Jung → Jung-min (Social Informant)

  At a gathering, Jung-min recounts a version of the cursed film's history to Park Mi-Jung.

Story Analysis

A pressured filmmaker investigates a supposedly ghost-created horror film until the investigation becomes part of the terror itself.

Plot Progression

1. Rumor Beneath The Screen
2. Theater Of Conflicting Stories
3. Evidence That Fights Back
4. The Theater Experiment
5. A Film With No Safe Ending