Hi guys hope you are going well and welcome back to another foreign film friday it is the first Friday in the month of February and i could not ignore your requests any longer so let's jump into this review of the South Korean film "The Wailing" This is a suspenseful horror film written and directed by Hong-jin Na and opens on a small-time cop in a small-time village who comes across the most horrific and gruesome family murder that has this ritualistic spin. The cop is Jong-Goo he's pretty lazy he's a bit of an underachiever and he's in way over his head. After the second lot of the shuttering family murders occur with whispers start to arise of a strange Japanese hermit loner guy up in the woods who might have something to do with it. Steeped in traditional folklore and partial legend this is a film that gets super bloody and super dark and for me it was the leading cop character being plunged further and further into solving this mystery that had me hooked as other villages start coming down with this rabid sickness including his young daughter. What started this generic whodunit murder cop case twist itself around on you by ACT 2 into something that I did not expect. Now yes it is quite a long film and over i think about two-and-a-half hours so some might waiver in their concentration towards the middle there but let me tell you this film has a mic-drop of an ending that will have you feeling like your stuck in a black hole of dread that only the great horror films can do. You do need to pay attention and I appreciate when a filmmaker doesn't spoon-feed his audience but by the same token I knew what was happening at the end but i still needed to go online after the movie was finished just to kind of figure out exactly is my theory of what i had just seen with correct and I always find that really kind of fun and interesting when you have to go away after the movie has finished and try and piece it together even a little bit more. Honestly I'm surprised by how long it has taken me to finally see this film, it is right up my alley and easily makes it into my top five horror films from 2016... Creepy unsettling and quite bloody. I really should do my top five horror films from 2016. Guys that is it from me for this month's foreign film friday make sure you leave me a comment in the comment section down below let me know what film I should review for next month's episode, also don't forget if you haven't already you can subscribe to my channel here and keep up-to-date with my other movie and TV reviews and i will see you next time. Bye!
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