The Wailing (2016)

I love this movie so much

Don't Believe the Hype

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I cannot believe all the positive reviews. This was worse than watching paint dry. Actually watching a awful rerun of Ronda Shearer's Up All Night with a equally awful Linnea Quigley-Brinke Stevens double feature would have been far less painful

Movie: The Wailing (15): Horror - KoreanPositives:The screenplay is brilliantly written with no major flaws to deviate you.The film's really scary at times and it succeeds as a horror thriller.Kwak Do-won's performance is a major highlight. Chun Woo-hee is also very impressive, as are Hwang Jung-min and Kunimura Jun.The cinematography is excellent and the film's technical aspects are strong.The unpredictability of the film is what makes it thought-provoking and memorable.The ending is as mindblowing as it is unpredictably excellent.Negatives:Well, not any.Repeat value: YesWithout a second thought, I can say that THE WAILING by Na Hong-jin is undoubtedly the best horror film of the decade, as it proves to be much more than a horror film and delivers something which not every film of this genre has. The film is unforgettable and you definitely won't be able to forget it.

Truly a masterpiece, the first film that I've found that has come close to touching the feeling that the Prestige instilled in me. 9/10.

If you like Asian horror, you probably aren't looking for the equivalent of Abbott & Costello Meet The Spooky Chick With Long Hair. That's close to what Hong-jin Na has done with his half-parody, half-serious take on his supernatural material. He's more serious than not, but he's also fatally hung his tale on a cop protagonist who's a pudgy bumbling wimp. We're meant to see multiplying local horrors as the forge that helps officer Jong-goo man up, if not in the eyes of his bored wife then at least to save his cutie pie kid. He's determined to scream and run for it like a Korean Lou Costello.This prefab spook house is filled with slapstick, zombies, ghosts, plagues, exorcisms and gore, but Na's predictable and it's always obvious where he's going next. He has an OK eye, a plodder's pacing and a manga's paint-by-number characters. His action sequences typically involve the same repeated pratfalls -- he's no Yeon Sang-ho! He does, however, pull out all the stops for a berserk tongue-in-cheek shamanic ritual that's the only memorable sequence in the film.