Review #270: The Wailing (2016)
This review was originally written in October 2023. Gabe's Horror Movie October Review #24 - The Wailing (2016) The Wailing is a Korean film about Jong-goo, a detective investigating a rash of bizarre and brutal murders across the countryside in his small village. While at first the murders all seem linked by a strange skin disease suffered by the attackers, Jong-goo hears tales of a local Japanese immigrant being somehow connected. When following this lead, Jong-goo's daughter seemingly becomes infected by the disease, but a renowned shaman claims she's possessed by a demon, and attempts a ritual to drive the demon out. At the same time the Japanese man is performing a ritual that seemingly brings a dead man back to life as a zombie, Jong-goo rounds up a posse to go kill the Japanese man but they fight the zombie instead, then they accidentally kill the Japanese man by hitting him with their car, but then it seems like the Japanese man wasn't actually involved and inst...