# The Wailing (2016)

> A bumbling rural police officer confronts murderous illness, ritual terror, and an unknowable evil threatening his daughter.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/178138

## Facts

- Runtime: 156 min
- Genres: Horror, Mystery
- Director: Na Hong-jin
- Cast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Jun Kunimura, Kim Hwan-hee, Heo Jin, Jang So-yeon, Kim Do-yoon
- TMDB rating: 7.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5215952/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: eerie, foreboding, darkly comic, late night horror marathon, rainy night

## Synopsis

A small village grapples with a terrifying mystery as a father fights to save his daughter from an unseen evil.

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