Movie Review - The Wailing

The Wailing (2016)

The Wailing is a South Korean production film with horror, thriller and mystery genres. The movie is predominantly to showcase in a center of a policeman who was struggling in seeking what was happening in the village with a lot of supernatural things that have happened in the village. The movie was a success in terms of shooting and shots were taken in the movie. Also, the main adjustments of lighting in terms of editing are most likely can be seen as an achievement in the movie. Besides, in the movie as if for starters - the first scene that I was kinda stoked when the camera took a shot of an establishing shot with mid rage shot of an old man was sitting on a giant rock by the river while fishing. The scenery of the place and the dim lights make the shot better. The scenery of the mountains and river made the shot more solid in the film. Then, a shot was taken with a long shot in a room while the policeman was getting ready to go to work - the usage of lighting was very dark and with the addition of raining sound effect at the outside that makes the scene more suspenseful. Also, in the movie, there was a scene where the family gathered to eat in a house with a different type of camera shots - for instance, to make the scene more crucial and solid mid-range shot and close up shot was used in the movie to make sure the message and the object in the film were shown to the audience. 

I am not the kind who likes to watch horror movies alone but best believe whenever I was horror movies with my friends I tend to make the movies to become a comedy - meaning, The Wailing is not that scary, to be honest, it's just an adventure of a man and some other prominent actors and actresses who were trying to solve the issues that were happening in the village some kind of supernatural stuff, performing a ritual of exorcisms and mental issues. 

Shots and angles

Establishing Shots - this shot gives an overview of the scene in the movie, where the place of the filming and showing the scenery of the place to the audience

Mid Range Shot - this shot emphasis the actors and the expression done by then which it gives more dynamic to the film so does the character expression in the film.

 Rule of Third and Establishing shot - this shot gives a wide-angle view of the place in the film where the shot was taken, also the placement of the actors are according to the lines in the rule of third.

 Close Up Shot - it gives more messages to the scene and emphasis the object when the close-up shot was taken.