Something strange is happening in South Korea. While Hollywood is churning out dismal remakes and teen-friendly jump scare franchise films, South Korea, for the past decade or so, has been producing intelligent, highly-original and truly effective horror films – including monster movies, zombie thrillers and nerve-shattering psychological mysteries.
The latest is The Wailing, a scary and sometimes funny supernatural epic that mixes police procedural with terrifying occult horror to devastating effect. The film features a bumbling cop investigating a spate of killings that may or may not be linked to a strange man living in the woods, and is packed with incredible set pieces and shocking twists – cementing South Korea’s growing reputation for world class horror. Here are some more that will turn you into a SoKo horrorphile…
R-Point (2004)
A Vietnam war film featuring a platoon of ghosts, this is a genuinely creepy and atmospheric horror film directed by Kong Su-chang,...
The latest is The Wailing, a scary and sometimes funny supernatural epic that mixes police procedural with terrifying occult horror to devastating effect. The film features a bumbling cop investigating a spate of killings that may or may not be linked to a strange man living in the woods, and is packed with incredible set pieces and shocking twists – cementing South Korea’s growing reputation for world class horror. Here are some more that will turn you into a SoKo horrorphile…
R-Point (2004)
A Vietnam war film featuring a platoon of ghosts, this is a genuinely creepy and atmospheric horror film directed by Kong Su-chang,...
- 1/24/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
I've got a thing for military genre films for some reason. Ever since I saw Michael J. Bassett's Deathwatch I've been getting a semi regular fix of various quality in the form of The Bunker, Outpost, R-Point and The Guard Post. All these films have one thing in common and that is a military squad is trapped in a single location, battling either their own demons or physical ones. The Squad (El Paramo) by director Jamie Osorio Marquez joins this group films as a team of Colombian soldiers head out to a radio post high in the mountains thought to be taken over by guerillas. The small outpost is dead silent and empty. But when the lights go on the place is covered in...
- 9/28/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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