The Wailing combines insight into small town Korean life combined with well-done bad spirit juju South Korean writer/ director Hong-jin Na’s labyrinthine tale of possession follows on the heels of his ...

Blood-spattered thriller The Wailing is, in part, a two-and-half-hour sit-down at Korea's spiritual smorgasbord. The exuberantly desolate movie opens with a verse from the Gospel of Luke, and the ...

The Wailing has confidence. That confidence oozes not only from director Na Hong-jin (The Chaser) but also from the film's distributor, Fox, which premiered the film out-of-competition at Cannes, then ...

In Na Hong-jin’s new film “The Wailing” is set in a rural village that has experienced multiple deaths after the appearance of a mysterious stranger. A deadly sickness spreads across the village, and ...

The Wailing (2016) is a South Korean horror film directed and written by Na Hong-jin. The plot revolves around a police officer who investigates a series of mysterious killings and illnesses in the ...

Spain has a long and fruitful tradition of producing horror films that elevate the genre and become enduring classics domestically and abroad – think Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s “[Rec],” J.A.

The Wailing is a hysterical and strange South Korean epic that tries to be both a horror movie and a thriller, and one could argue that, for the first hour or so, it wants to be a dark comedy as well.

The U.S. title of Na Hong-jin’s new film, The Wailing, suggests tone more than it does sound. There is wailing to be heard here, yes, and plenty of it, but in two words Na coyly predicts his ...