SOME SERIOUS EXORCISM

Movies dealing with exorcism are rarely considered anywhere near of being serious when it comes to plot, twist and outcome. Unless they are being rendered by the Koreans.

„The Wailing” will start pretty casual, on the very brink of parody, but things are about to get pretty messy and scary as the twisting script unwinds. There will be no mercy, no happy end and no safe closures to this battle of the spirits in a God forsaken Korean village, following the well lit Korean path of no compromises.

„The Wailing” makes the entire subject of exorcism more than watchable.

THE WAILING – 6/10

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DEJA VU

Horror movies are in a huge crisis. Huge. Especially those revolving around exorcism.

When it hit theatres , „The Conjuring” was something of a refreshment, going back to the roots of the genre and subgenre. However, even then it was obvious that won't be the last one of documentary-like stories about the religious exorcist married couple (Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson).

The second part of the franchise brought us nothing new, plainly switching the location to London and repeating all the frames, cuts and scary sounds of the first one. The only major difference being the very end, blunt even by the subgenre's standards.

„The Conjuring 2” is just a repeating of the same concept without any significant novelties.

THE CONJURING - 3/10

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