The Wailing
- Release Date
- June 3, 2016
- Director
- Na Hong-jin
- Cast
- Jun Kunimura , Hwang Jung-min
- Runtime
- 2hr 36min
- Main Genre
- Horror
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, Fox International Production, Ivanhoe Pictures
- Writers
- Na Hong-jin
- Tagline
- From acclaimed director Na Hong-jin
Summary
In the small village Goksung in South Korea, police officer Jong-Goo investigates bizarre murders caused by a mysterious disease. His partner relays gossip that a Japanese stranger, who lives in a secluded house in the mountains, would be an evil spirit responsible for the illness. Jong-Goo decides to visit the stranger along with his partner and a young priest who speaks Japanese. They find an altar with a goat head, pictures on the walls of the infected people that died, and an attacking guard dog that prevents their departure until the stranger arrives. Jong-Goo finds one shoe of his beloved daughter, Hyo-jin, in the house of the stranger, and soon she becomes sick. His mother-in-law summons the shaman Il-gwang to save her granddaughter while a mysterious woman tells Jong-Goo that the stranger is responsible. Who might be the demon that is bringing sickness to Goksung?
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