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South Korean Horror Film

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The Wailing (South Korean Film Review & Summary)

The Wailing poster

• Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Village People
• Release Date: 2016
• Origin: South Korea
• Film: 1.56 min

Cast

Reference: Wikipedia

• Kwak Do-won as Jong-goo, police man and father of Hyo-Jin.
• Hwang Jung-min as Il-gwang, a shaman hired to protect the village.
• Chun Woo-hee as Moo-myung, the woman in white.
• Jun Kunimura as Japanese stranger.
• Kim Hwan-hee as Hyo-jin, Jong-goo’s daughter.
• Her Jin as Jong-goo Mother-in-law
• Jang So-yeon as Jon-goo Wife
• Kim Do-yoon as Yang I-sam, Japanese speaking deacon
• Son Gang-guk as Oh Seong-bok, Jong-goo police partner
• Park Seong-yeon as Kwon Myeong-joo
• Kil Chang-gyoo as Park Choon-bae
• Jeon Bae-soo as Deok-gi
• Jeong Mi-nam as Heung-gook
• Choi Gwi-hwa as Byeong-gyoo
• Baek Seung-cheol as Friend
• Kwon Hyeok-joon as Friend
• Park Chae-ik as Friend
• Kim Gi-cheon as Dispatch captain
• Yoo Soon-woong as Chief of police
• Jo Han-cheol as Detective 1
• Kim Song-il as Police
• Bae Yong-geun as Police
• Im Jae-il as Police
• Lee In-cheol as Father
• Jo Seon-joo as Bar hostess
• Lee Chang-hoon as Doctor
• Kim Ji-won as Nurse

Something for the weekend.  Watch this space for the review and summary.  By all accounts this film is one horrific and terrifying movie.  Be ready with a huge bucket of popcorn as it will be a two and a half hours marathon.

I have just finished watching this film with the hubby.  Our verdict?  It is a most excellent  & scary horror movie Something you will not forget easily.

It is well made and well-acted.

I wonder how audiences received it at the cinema?  I would not be surprised if there had been a lot of screaming and jumping in their seats.

The first hour was a slow build-up, with humourous touches including some slapstick & pratfall scenes between the leading characters playing the village police. This we think is a clever device & means to lull us the audience into a false sense of thinking this will not be that frightening or scary as the publicity and critics proclaimed. As the story unfolds, a much darker scenario makes its presence felt. The quintessential battle between Good and Evil, with the protagonists as old as time battling for souls of the small village. There is a homage in the movie to probably the best horror movie made, ‘The Exorcist.’