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Movies I watched in December 2019 (20 movies items)" Date: 12/7/2019 Viewed: Shudder First Viewing Note: I wanted to check out this movie for the last few years now after hearing about it back in 2016. Three years later, I finally got the chance to watch this movie and I really like it. I love how the dark and twisted the story was. Every moment in this movie had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. I also love the dark and gritty atmosphere that this movie has. The cinematography is wonderful to look at and it really helps capture"
Movies Watched in 2019
Movies Viewed in 2019 (200 movies items)" First Viewing Viewing Date: June 7th Via: iTunes Store Plot: Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter. Rating: 7.7/10"
Fall Horrorfest 2018 (40 movies items)" Watched October 31st Rating: Streamed on Netflix I didn't realize The Wailing was a horror film for a long time, even though I've seen it pop up on netflix for ages. I'm glad I finally saw someone mention it in relation to zombies, otherwise I might have skipped it over again. What a good movie! I love how some east Asian films there is a sense of humor and fun through even their most dramatic or horrific movies and this one had a lot of the same. It took its time to build itself up in a way"
The 50 Greatest Horror Movies of the 21st Century (50 movies items)"Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing is a work of thriller maximal-ism, thriving on genre crosspollination and tonal hyperbole, particularly a destabilizing contrast of broad comedy with ultraviolent portentousness. Na is an atmospheric reveler who sets the film’s narrative traps so gradually that we come to accept his increasingly insane plot as inevitable. He’s at once fashioned a hangout movie, luxuriating in the eccentricities of the story’s village locals, and a relentlessly precise and moment"
Movies Rewatched in 2018 (25 movies items)"March 24th Directed By: Hong-jin Na 2nd Viewing Original Rating: 4.5 After: 4.5 Favorites Before 20 Favorites After ??"
Film Journal 2017 (162 movies items)"Eric Tsang's new career as a Korean police officer doesn't quit pan out but his spirits will not be broken even with a knife sticking out of his chest."
Miika's Movie Diary - 2017 (250 movies items)"11.12, PC Hitusen ylipitkä ja alkuun liikaa jarrutteleva, mutta muuten kiinnostava tarina poliisista ja kylässä leviävästä sairaudesta. Mystinen ilmapiiri ja juonenkäänteet toimivat, eikä näyttelyssäkään ole mitään vikaa."
Best of the year 2017 (39 movies items)"This starts out slowly but then gets better and better. I've been meaning to watch this again and with better understanding of the Korean mythology/lore (I read about it after seeing the film first time)."
My Favorite Films (50 movies items)" Directed by: Hong-jin Na With: Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do-won Kwak Plot: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter."
