Director: Na Hong-jin
Notable Cast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Jun Kunimura,
Chun Woo-hee, Jo Han-chul, Jang So-yeon
At this point, I feel like Na Hong-jin is just fuckin’ with
us. There is no way that a director takes his first three feature length films
and drops three instant classics. Not just cult classics, but true cinematic
classics that rise above their assigned genres and edgy non-mainstream
elements. His latest film, the horror thriller The Wailing, is just one more film to add to his already impressive
cinematic streak of glory. While The
Chaser and The Yellow Sea both
redefined the thriller into modern effective tales of woe and shock, The Wailing defines what a modern horror
film should look like while retaining the same effective style and writing that
made his previous two outings so bold and real. This film will knock the wind
out of you. It’s a film that defines the best of what horror has to offer by building
a real world with characters you care for…and then utterly destroying it all in
front of you. The Wailing is the kind
of outsider cinema that every film maker should want to make - thoughtful,
shocking, thrilling, and ultimately devastating.