Product Description WAILING - ULTRA HD - A rash of brutal murders sweeps through a quiet rural village where a mysterious stranger just appeared. When the investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he consults a shaman for answers - unknowingly escalating the situation into something far more dangerous. Review "one of the year's best films" --The Examiner"hideous and exquisite, heart-breaking and horrifying" --The Last Thing I See"a masterpiece of mood" --Polygon
J**R
Really Really Good
Amazingly good movie. The only issues I had was the lack of an English dub (would've liked the option) and during the opening credits, the credits are overlapping with the subtitles with no color to show which is which.
M**N
Don't fret, it has subtitles.
The bad reviews are for a previous digital release of this movie. Subtitles have been added and all has been righted. The blu-ray has had subtitles from the get go. I wish some of those people would update their reviews (or Amazon wouldn't lump all reviews together for different versions of the same movie) as this movie deserves a much higher score. The blu-ray is a bit barebones, but it is otherwise a perfectly good release of the movie. If I see the scores balance out I might drop my review a bit, because a movie this good really does deserve more special features.As far as the movie itself (outside of the physical product of the blu-ray), it is a masterpiece of horror well deserving of the acclaim it has received on the film festival circuit. Horror has seen a resurgence in the US, but few of those recent releases display half the nuance and writing chops displayed in Na Hong-jin's The Wailing. Korean directors have demonstrated a strong flair for genre pictures for several years now (The Host, Mother, I Saw the Devil, Snowpiercer), and now with films like The Wailing they're giving Hollywood a serious run for its money on production value. This is a gorgeous movie at all levels. The video and sound are both top notch, and the acting is superb. This is a movie that will revolutionize genre film-making in Korea, and I can't wait to see what other goodies we get from the peninsula in the next few years.
K**D
Excellent horror movie
Another excellent horror movie from South Korea I really like the movie and I enjoyed watching it a lot
J**S
One of a kind
Horror pure blood , scary and strange , love it , slight comparisation , Burning , I Saw The Devil , Memories of Murder .
B**K
bluray 4k quality is superb
bluray 4k ultra quality is excellent with dolby vision. Very sharp, and deep colors. The only issue as someone else pointed out is that there are credits in the beginning that get english subtitles along with the actual dialog subtitles, so its a lot of text on the screen for the first several minutes.I currently only have a sonos arc with subwoofer, but the audio quality is also excellent, I'll update once I get rear speakers to test the dolby atmos but I'm not an audiophile. I won't do a movie review here, this review is solely for the bluray 4k ultra disc.
B**S
Flawless suspenseful horror
I watch a lot of horror movies (and I do mean a lot of horror movies--they're one of my passions), so when I say that this is one of the finest horror films I've seen in recent years, you know that's not empty praise. And in fact this really is one of the finest horror movies I've seen in recent years. It's wonderfully performed, beautifully shot, and amazingly suspenseful throughout.Admittedly, it's a long movie and a bit of a slow burn at times, but none of the slower sequences are ever boring. Rather, they're fascinating as the filmmakers gradually reveal information and provide layer after layer of suspense. And this is genuine suspense. The viewer is never entirely sure what's actually going on. This is, in large part, a tale of suspicion and paranoia and the viewer consistently struggles to know which suspicions are founded and which really are just the products of paranoia. It's not a new cinematic device, but it's used about as well as I've ever seen a movie use it. Similarly, the basic plot and premise of the film will be familiar to horror and thriller fans, but they're rendered perfectly to create that rarest of all entities: a horror movie capable of haunting even the most jaded of horror fans.If you haven't seen this yet, you really owe it to yourself to watch it.
S**Q
Great movie
This is one of my favorite South Korean horror movies. A great story. Has a touch of humor.
J**M
I am glad to have been able to order this DVD through ...
I am glad to have been able to order this DVD through Amazon.Com. I live in a Little Red Dot called Singapore where Korean movies and TV dramas are very popular. Yet, I couldn't find this DVD at DVD shops. I read a newspaper review of the movie and wanted to see it but work commitments got in the way and I missed it. When it comes to horror movies, Korean horror takes a backseat to Japanese horror. The Wailing is one of the better Korean horror movies. Briefly, the story is about a police officer who is called to investigate a series of murders in a rural community. The victims have their bodies mutilated. Plenty of gore for horror fans who want to see a bloody mess. There is a suspect - an old Japanese man who lives alone in the village. The suspicion is later shifted to a strange young woman who is thought to be a witch. So, is it the old Japanese or the young woman? A shaman is called to exorcise whatever demons that are believed to have been unleashed upon the villagers. He's no angel. I will stop here to avoid giving a spoiler. There's an air of mystery over the murders and how these were committed. I like the rural setting. There are creepy moments but, despite the gory scenes, this movie didn't scare the daylights out of me like the Ju-On movies from Japan did. Americans should give this movie a try - get a feel of rural Korea and Korean horror. Want to see something Korean that is really scary? It's not the demon in this movie. The scary one was in my country on 12 June where he shook hands with President Trump.
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