Film

The Wailing

Name: The Wailing
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Released: 2016
Cast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Jun Kunimura, Kim Hwan-hee

A jittery small-town cop stumbles into a plague of gruesome deaths after a stranger settles at the edge of his village, and the film refuses to give you a stable explanation — shamanism, disease, possession, or plain human cruelty — right through its punishing final act. It's long, lurches wildly between farce and dread, and it's built for arguing about afterward, not for answers.

TMDb rating

7.4

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