The Wailing

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Paul S @PaulIsAll 4h Utter dogsh*t. Plot twists make absolutely zero sense and I'm left wondering how it's possible that this movie was ever made, let alone why there are people on this planet that highly recommend it. Proof I'll never understand reality. See more Angel C @RT52825895 11h Sitting through 2.5 hours is already a considerable investment of time and attention, but The Wailing never feels interested in giving anything back for it. Instead, the reward is snobbery dressed up as profundity: an absurdly intricate web of metaphors, religious imagery and deliberate ambiguity, all leading into a labyrinth that eventually feels like even the filmmaker has forgotten the way out. It mistakes obscurity for depth and confusion for intellectual sophistication. It breaks the basic pact of horror: the protagonist does everything he can, fights like hell, and still gets crushed by a ridiculous and inevitable cosmic trap. That isn’t tragedy, it’s a cheap resource and unreasonably depriving the audience from any reward. See more Jonathan J @jonjondotcom1312 Jul 20 Hilarious. Stressful. Thrilling. Horrifying. Mind-bending. The way the story and the stress builds is peak. See more Draco T @RT64640507 Jun 26 Was interesting until towards the end where the plot stops adding up See more Musa A @doodleflame May 24 Brilliant. Just brilliant. I wasn't sure where the film was going in the first half but it got SO good. One of the best horror movies of all time See more Ahmd K @RT18810073 May 23 If it had been half a star, I would have given it. Too much pointless shouting. Ridiculous characters. Pointless jumping between events. A ridiculous ending. I wasted two and a half hours of my life. See more Read all reviews

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