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Do-won Gwak, Jeong-min Hwang, Jun Kunimura, Woo-hee Cheon, Han-cheol Jo, So-yeon Jang, Hwan-hee Kim, Kang-kuk Son, Mi-nam Jeong, Gwi-hwa Choi, Ki-cheon Kim (więcej)Opisy(1)
W spokojnej koreańskiej wiosce dochodzi do szeregu tajemniczych i gwałtownych zgonów a niektórzy mieszkańcy zaczynają zdradzać oznaki prowadzącej do szaleństwa choroby. Śledztwo prowadzi Jongo-Goo, miejscowy oficer policji. Początkowo jako przyczynę zgonów podaje zatrucie dzikimi grzybami, jednak wkrótce zaczyna mieć co do tego wątpliwości. Gdy docierają do niego plotki o tajemniczym Japończyku, który niedawno zamieszkał w okolicznym lesie, nieznajomy staje się głównym podejrzanym. Oznaki opętania zaczyna wykazywać także mała córeczka Jongo-Goo. Od tego momentu policjant zrobi wszystko by ocalić swoje dziecko od niebezpieczeństwa. (Mayfly)
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Clocking in at two and a half hours, The Wailing is, in a typical Korean fashion, an incongruous mix of comedy, family drama and especially horror, with demons, shamans, zombies, possessed little girls and lots of blood. A lot of the scenes are great on their own, but the movie as a whole cannot be taken seriously at all, if only because of the characters, who behave like idiots. That’s too bad, because the film has high production values and the plot twists in the last third speak of the ambition to innovate genre clichés. [Cannes]
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A richer horror sub-genre blend than I expected. That naked old man with blazing red eyes will probably haunt my dreams for a few days, thanks a lot! Perhaps it is overstuffed, there are so many motifs and evil or potentially evil entities that I’m not entirely sure that I got everything, but the overall impression is very positive nonetheless.
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A film as treacherous, captivating, cunning and unpredictable as the Devil himself. The Wailing is the perfect fulfilment of the basic horror principle that the most frightening thing is the loss of rational certainties, which is felt not only by the film’s characters, but primarily by its viewers.
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The Wailing definitely had the makings of an excellent film. The atmosphere, the village, the cast, a few funny moments in the beginning, and the odd case that the viewer is actually looking forward to solving. But the more supernatural it started to get, the more my hope for a solid script diminished. Then the red eyes, the shamans start showing up, and it ends up being a bit of a nonsensical mishmash. At least they managed to keep the suspense up. 3 stars.
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An interesting Korean genre mix where it pays to follow all the themes closely. Everything may not fit 100% as it should in the end (more accurately – as I imagined it would), but the overall impression of a fairly original crime drama with a distinct mystery atmosphere remains strong nonetheless. If its main investigator had a more in-depth (or more seriously) fleshed out character, it might even have made the cut. Indeed, at times I felt that some of the characters were caricatures of themselves, which I can't quite connect with. 3.5 stars
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