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Title: The Wailing (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Do-won Kwak | ... | Jong-goo | |
| Jung-min Hwang | ... | Il-gwang | |
| Jun Kunimura | ... | Japanese Man | |
| Woo-hee Chun | ... | The Mysterious Woman | |
| Hwan-hee Kim | ... | Hyo-jin | |
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Jin Heo | ... | Mother-in-Law |
| So-yeon Jang | ... | Wife | |
| Do-yoon Kim | ... | Yang Yi-sam | |
| Kang-gook Son | ... | Oh Sung-bok | |
| Seong-yeon Park | ... | Kwon Myung-joo | |
| Chang-gyu Kil | ... | Park Choon-bae | |
| Bae-soo Jeon | ... | Deok-gi | |
| Mi-nam Jeong | ... | Heung-gook | |
| Gwi-hwa Choi | ... | Byeong-gyoo | |
| Seung-chul Baek | ... | Friend | |
In the small village Goksung in South Korea, police officer Jong-Goo investigates bizarre murders caused by a mysterious disease. His partner relays gossip that a Japanese stranger, who lives in a secluded house in the mountains, would be an evil spirit responsible for the illness. Jong-Goo decides to visit the stranger along with his partner and a young priest who speaks Japanese. They find an altar with a goat head, pictures on the walls of the infected people that died, and an attacking guard dog that prevents their departure until the stranger arrives. Jong-Goo finds one shoe of his beloved daughter, Hyo-jin, in the house of the stranger, and soon she becomes sick. His mother-in-law summons the shaman Il-gwang to save her granddaughter while a mysterious woman tells Jong-Goo that the stranger is responsible. Who might be the demon that is bringing sickness to Goksung? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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This movie was a hell of a ride. About 40 minutes into the movie, I stopped to look at how much time was left and was actually RELIEVED to see that there was still so much left. That's how engaging and interesting the story was for me.
Before watching the movie I read one review on here that said it was a "smorgasbord" of genres (it was a positive review), but it doesn't really feel like it. I mean, yes, I can see it, but the storytelling is so fluid and well written that the multiple genre aspects didn't feel out of place at all. It works. It works so well that I almost feel like it's redundant to point out that there are "so many genres."
I found the second half of this movie quite similar to The Witch. Not necessarily in terms of the storyline, but the pace, the severity, the terror. Both movies are quite psychological. But The Wailing delivers somewhat of a more complex storyline.
Cinematography was breathtaking. Jun Kunimura was ridiculous (in an oh-so-good way). All the actors were on point. I'm not going to point out or mention "Asian horror" here (although, technically I just did I guess, lol). I just don't think that it's necessary to pigeonhole this movie into anything other than what it is; a great horror.