THE WAILING (2016) Ending Explained
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In the terrifying THE WAILING, a Korean village is turned upside down when a mysterious Japanese man appears, and brutally slain bodies start piling up. It's up to a local cop who finds himself targeted by the evil to unravel whats going on to save his family. We're breaking down the quite complicated twists and turns of the, who the real bad guy is, and explaining the ending that ties everything together.
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Has anyone noticed this dude has never put an ad into his videos. No sponsors, just pure greatness. Much respect
No raycons or mystery killer box or shadow legends.....
I thought he was sponsored by that audiobook thinh
Damn. No.....I respect the hustle when you can tell someone's heart is in it. But it's something I never noticed...I guess since he's got that old CZcams feel.
Just reaching out, spreading the word to his fellow movie lovers. Real passion projects.
I believe he has but it’s very few and he doesn’t make a 10 minute out of it. He’s a keeper!
Read this comment while watching an ad LOL
Yeah if it's a horror movie and it's Korean, don't expect a happy ending
I agree. lol
Train to busan flashback intensifies.
Mild Mango. lmaoo love that reference
Yeah actually a lot of Korean movies I've watched don't really have a happy ending lol
Found it a little interesting that the evil was a Japanese person. Like Russians are portrayed as antogonists in an American film,lol.
I really went from "oh the old man is a demon" to "wait, it's not him, i feel bad for him now" to "omg it's the lady in white, fuck" to "oh shit it's really the old man" to "wait who really IS IT"
What a mindfuck this film was. The monster reveal in that cave was fucking scary as hell
i literally lose some braincells after watching this
Same
it was easy to understand
I got goosebumps at the cave scene
Did she beat him up when he fell?
"Not everything that breathes or moves is alive"
Damn, I've felt that.
Can relate
me thinking bout those shroomy boyes
Huh what
That's what we call a, "Hallow". Nothing to live for, but yet still wants to live because it doesn't want to die. That source that makes us don't want to die is that accursed thing call, "Life". It's a gift and also a curse.
Yeah, like : Is that a personal attack or something?
*Sees bones crack, boils, and demonic eyes/behaviors*
Town: *Must be mushrooms*
Nurgle's Rot, my friend. We don't stick around long enough to see them become Plaguebearers.
Always has been
Yep Mario's the impostor
Can you do Tusk next
Soldier have a arrow to the head.
Character hides
Soldiet-must be the wind
Another thing not mentioned is that the Shaman is wearing undergarments that a Japanese man would wear(The demon was seen wearing this during those scenes where he was almost naked with red eyes).
Oni are typically depicted wearing nothing but undergarments in a lot of things
@@nevermore7285 That's a neat detail.
@@lesyeuxsansvisage1157 @soul survivor It is literally referred to as an adult diaper in the conversation between the cops and the hiker. You guys should rewatch that scene and then think about getting your undergarments untwisted
sole survivor you sound like fun
sole survivor Wow yep because everyone should know about Japanese culture in a Korean movie where literally the cops were saying it was a man in adult diapers LOL
The animosity between Korean people and Japanese people adds another layer of context as to why the Japanese guy had so many rumors against him
I've seen a lot of Korean products such as manga and movies that have anti-japanese message and it's same with china
That’s exactly why I thought the old man was actually good for the entire movie. I thought they were trying to portray some anti racism message. I was wrong.
lmao I was thinking that too. I hear the South Koreans *STILL* have political issues with Japan because of the Japanese occupation of Korea. Then seeing this movie with Koreans and the _bad_ Japanese person.
Yes!!!!
What a conversation of low intelligence.
To clarify everything briefly:
- The woman in white is the good guy. Comparable from a Korean point of view to a divinity protecting the village, and from a christian point of view to Jesus or someone as pure as him. She throws stones because she didn't sin, she can physically touch the character, and like Jesus and Saint Peter, she submits the hero to a final test of faith, which he failed ( the rooster ). She uses the zombie and the raven to attack the Japanese, but she fails.
- The Japanese is the devil incarnated. All the signs are there ( goat head, black dog, etc ). Yet he still has a physical form: if both christians and traditional korean beliefs mention that a ghost has no form, the Devil is neither a ghost neither a human. Weither the japanese is his physical form or a possession of someone is however unclear, but from a historical point of view Japanese and Korean have always been antagonists, meaning he choose appearance according to his preys. Having a physical form, he's unable to touch the ravens himself and is vulnerable to the Zombie, which explain why he can't help the dog nor he can remove the raven in the soy jar himself. When his curse reach innocents, such as the daughter or the policeman colleague, skin rash manifests.
- The pictures are part of the Devil's ritual. He takes the pictures before the deaths and the Shaman take the picture after. Which explains how the Devil already had a picture of the priest, dead, and with his cheek badly damaged on his altar room. By doing so he trap souls but also keep physical evidences of his crimes, while the white lady relies more on pure faith like christian did ( Jesus had to take form in front of Saint Thomas for him to believe ).
- The Shaman works with the devil, weither for money or because he's forced to ( the vision he has while fleeing with a car is the Japanese warning him to come back to finish his duty. Comparable to the locusts ). He probably signed a deal with the devil. Being human, or partially human, he uses his fake good image to lure the characters to hate the Japanese, pushing them to seeking revenge, hurt the Japanese, and by doing so becoming sinners and hence a prey for the Devil ( which is why he talks about the bait when the Japanese is hit by the car: the main characters became sinners and are now at the devil's reach ). He also keeps the pictures that the Japanese claims to have burnt. If the Japanese man is the christian Devil, relying on sins and possessions, then the shaman is his shield against traditional Korean divinities chasing him.
- The hero fails the final test of faith, as did Peter with Jesus, breaking the trap and allowing the evil to reach his home. While we don't know if the family could have been saved, he allows the evil ritual to go on and the devil to escape freely. That same trap previously kept the Shaman away from the home.
"Japanese and Korean have always been antagonists, meaning he choose appearance according to his preys". But why? This doesn't make sense. Afaik, the Christian devil usually selects the opposite as his appearance: something desirable, to lure in his prey. This would make the choice of having him be Japanese (and the villagers subsequently being cautious) a more deliberate decision, apart from Kunimura being a great actor, but so are hundreds of Koreans/Non-Japanese.
I have a hard time believing the movie doesn't have a racist overtone😅 but maybe there is a better explanation
your comment answered way more questions than the video.
well done bro
@@bumpsyI think the Shaman plays a big role. The salesman is giving you an enemy. Literally everyone noticed the “new guy” in town. He’s a mysterious Japanese man. The Shaman basically says I’m protecting you from that monster. In reality he’s fueling the fire and tricking him all along the way.
At least that’s why I think he selected a Japanese guy. It’s like a red herring sort of thing.
@@bumpsyhe is still luring his prey you DUNCE. All the koreans think he is bad bc he is Japanese so he LURES them to sin, inviting the devil. Think with your brain next time
@@bumpsy ugh, no, it's not some racist overtone lol. That would be a pretty hamfistedly written and blatantly bad message for this director lol. "Yeah the reason I made the Japanes guy the devil is cause the Japanese are bad and evil" - The Director Himself
so when he transformed into a demon he simultaneously whipped out his camera proving that vloggers are demons
With a Fandom site too!
He is logan paul by filming dead people
I can see him walking into a Kinkos or a fotomat trying to get that film developed looking like that.
Let it be noted that the demon shot on film and even developed its own pictures.
Accurate interpretation
The thing that foundflix missed to explained is it is implied that the evil curse spread through sexual intercourse. The naked woman who hanged herself was raped by the japanese on the river bank. when the father found the dauther's gnawed notebook there's a drawing that implied that she had been raped too by the japanese. The reason why the evil curse spread quickly in the village is because of an escort woman (in 7:43 minutes) also contracted the curse (she's having boils) and spread it to other villagers. So it was some sort of STD curse like in It Follows
thats disgusting omg i never noticed this
@@abc6100 paused on 9:54. The picture on the daughter's journal
@EmperorJuliusCaesar yup i edited my comments. For some reason the timestamp on my youtube shows the minus time (the remaining time of the video) and not the time the video had started.
@@Ninaloasana just tap on the time and it'll return to normal. I was confused as well before I realised.
@@lalboimanlun1230 oh wow thanks for the tips
My favourite part is the grandma being like: my child does not eat this food, who are you tiny imposter!
😂😂😂
Ikr fuck 😂😂😂grandma knows best
hahahha
@@thatblueskyfeeling3861 turns out she actually doesn't know best as the shaman she hired was an evil accomplice
im.... inp.... nposter..
Damn she could have really just said "We're both possessed and using magic but he's bad and I'm good. If you wait until the rooster crows three times your daughter won't slaughter your family"
He had to have faith and make the decision on his own
She already did said that except for she was possessed. I am not even sure she was possessed tho. She may very well be the embodiment of good. Even if she was possessed the dude would have freaked out more I guess :D
@@buffwarriors nah she was a ghost, when she grabs his hand to stop him from running back to his house, she's pale blue which = ghosts in asia.
She's not a human possessed by spirit... She's more like a guardian spirit of the villiage...like in many Asian folklore
Spirituality is never that clear tho. He had to have faith and trust. I got the sense she was an angel. If there are demons, then there are angels. Kinda sad because the message is those village ppl weren't trusting her. Seems there are more victims than survivors.
Take notes Hollywood. It is possible to do a Horrorfilm on atmosphere and not with 1500 jumpscares.
@Gerry Buckets I read that whole thing
Hollywood is busy with political propaganda..
They do it cause it sells more, but there are definitely good ones. The witch, the lighthouse, hereditary, midsommar, I'm thinking of ending things, the bay, grave encounters, cam, autopsy of jane doe to name a few.
I think this is the first movie I have watched as an adult and actually been really scared by
@@simenkland9417 movie is so fire
I love Japanese and Korean horror flicks, they're more about the story than cheap jump scares.
Asian horror movies :))
They know atmosphere ^^
Jaycee Palattao I wouldn’t say Asian, because I have seen Indo and Thai horror movies and they use jump scares more than an actual thought-provoking plot, and in the end usually the good guy wins (and part 2 comes out next year... and it’s the exact same shit)
@@killjoyer Indonesian here,i deffinately agree,most indonesian horror movies lacks a genuine plot and rely on cheap jumpscares
Well said
The exorcism scene is one of my favorite pieces of cinematography, not just because it's performed by Hwang Jung Min, but the duality between the shaman and Japanese man is just beautifully eerie and a perfect mood piece.
Jun Kunimura is underrated AF. He's been in lots of movies in small roles but he knocks it out of the park every time.
I watched this film back in 2016 during a festival in a theater and this scene I will remember forever. It was so intense. An assault on the senses, in a good way.
This
Is no one going to mention the top-notch sound design of this movie? The rain sounded so realistic, and the ritual scenes created an atmosphere of curiosity but also of dread. Everything in this movie fits so well together.
When the dude who watches horror films for a living gets scarred, you know its gonna be a good film.
Clay Menefee I thought it was mediocre at best when I watched it. I have a feeling he overhyped it by a lot
Sinan Aldulaymi took me a couple watches to enjoy it tbh, the first few I was uninterested but the director is amazing
Anthony Moro At the end of the day, nothing is for everyone and I guess I'm in the minority that dislikes it, but so be it, nothing new to me 😅
@@sinanaldulaymi4103 I mean you can say that about anything. People I know were terrified of The Exorcist, yet when I watched it, it was kinda funny to me. Just different taste of movies
Janek Rakieta exactly my point
This movie is awesome and terrifying, as a father there is nothing more scary than being unable to protect your family. The ending with the demon in the cave still keeps me up at night
Well 15 more years until that for me so
WiSh YoU lUcK
Also get some sleep it’s good for you
.It is really terrifying as a father being clueless that your daughter was raped by a demon.
Nayeon Im she wa raped?
@@michaelabear8685 Yes its implied, also at around 9 minutes into the video in the girls journal there is a drawing of her with her crotch bleeding.
Hell yea I watched it today and that scene was definitely creepy as hell 😂😂😶
The one thing I remember the most about watching this movie was that it had the most realistic scene of someone vomiting that I've ever seen, and every movie these days somebody just spits out a big glob of puke colored water and cornstarch mix, but one dude straight vomited a liquidy waterfall and I was grossed out and impressed lol
something I noticed too
It looked like puss and blood was coming out of his mouth, it was so disturbing. It was satisfying to see the female shaman do that to the evil shaman tho :]
@@MW-pw1sp she ain't no shaman
And I guess that happened because of the lady's set trap?
Scene was gnarly...While gushing blood from his nose
This movie was so great. Had so many twists and always had you wondering who was really the evil person. At some points you end up feeling sorry for the devil and thinking everything you’ve thought up to that point has to be a lie. But then it turns again and makes you say wtf!! I wish there were more movies like this that had the audience go through so many emotions
Exactly my thought
Yeah him crying below the cliff was probably put by the director/writer to throw the audience off
Since its a korean film I just assumed no matter what the Japanese guy was the bad guy and lo and behold yeah it was the case.
@@wilyounghusband5267 No. The man is not the devil. The man is possessed by the devil. He released the devil's presence from his body with his ritual into that dead guy that ended up becoming an undead zombie with super devil strength. When he's crying at the bottom of the cliff, he is just a man in fear of his life and in pain. It was after he was thrown off the cliff by the woman in white killing the old man which allowed the devil to fully possess him once and for all.
@@somber8233 right
Out of all of the horror movies you've covered, this one is the most intriguing one of them all to me. Love the idea of a war between spirits portrayed in the perspective of a man who's just trying to save him family. Truly unfortunate that evil won out in the end.
Oh hi it's you again old friend, I saw you everywhere :v
You don't know me but I do you
nice 169 likes
I don’t think it’s clear at all that evil won and good lost. Every possible combination of alliance or conflict between the shamans/spirits has been postulated by fans. He merely presented the mainstream interpretation (woman in white was good and the two shamans were in cahoots) as fact.
I think there’s something to the idea that the spirits were warring over souls, and Jong-goo was simply caught in the middle. Jong-goo broke the “protective” spell after his wife and mother were already killed. The woman in white says that Jong-goo was being punished for trying to kill an innocent man, which happened after his daughter was cursed. Does this mean the woman (is she actually a woman as she says?) was lying? Is it a fatalistic observation that the family was really fucked all along, and that things were just playing out? Either view seems to contradict the idea that the woman was simply “the good guy”.
Ah yes, you again
sadly he and his family was marked for death after he trips in front of possessed old lady house, even tho ghost girl warned them to go away by throwing stones at em early.
After he imagined being chased??
@@ItzNotCiscoTTV-ApexLegends turned out he wasn’t imagining
Actually that “throwing stone” scene has a lot more meaning than that. When the deity was throwing stones that them, it was already a sign that they should trust her because she’s the one who didn’t sin and also the protector of the village. The part where she threw stone is actually a reference from a bible which is *”He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”* , by simply throwing the stone, she already proved that she’s the one who they should trust. I mean, many scenes in these movies are related to Bible.
Is the girl in white the good spirit or the bad one? I am so confused🤔
@@jollymcdo9248 I'd suggest you rewatch the movie but to answer your question, the girl was indeed the good one and the japanese man was the evil
Small little detail that was missed was the withered flowers that were being focused on. Those are snapdragon flowers. Notice the skull-like shape of the pedals? That is the signature look of snapdragon flowers when they wither. They are used to scare off curses, sorcery and other evil things.
@Bla Bla they did
@teetheluchador when?
@@starborn6239she told him to not go home & wait till 3 raven noises but he went anyway thus breaking the protection spell (we can see flower dries of instantly as he enters the house)of that flower same would have happened with other families that she tried to save.
@@happythanos6632 i know that, im just tryna say it did not work cause his family was eliminated anyway...
@@starborn6239 reason
Her telling him to wait until the rooster crows 3 times is interesting- it’s a pretty blatant reference to the disciple Peter. Right before Christ was arrested and crucified he told Peter that he would deny him 3 times before the rooster crowed. Peter did indeed deny being a follower of Jesus three times for fear that they would arrest and murder him too. By not listening to the woman and heeding her warning he denied her benevolent nature. Ultimately, Peter was crucified upside down because he did not think himself worthy to be crucified upright as Jesus was.
Yeah except that she was literally the evil spirit the whole film. The film is about deception, and this hidden plot twist shows that all it takes to deceive people is to dress up the evil spirit as a cute chick in a white dress and give her a few bible references, and people eat it up. She protected literally zero people during the movie, and she was seen wearing possessions of each infected person before they got infected.
He also totally had holes in his hands when the Shaman dude comes to him, so many layers in this movie
so you're telling me that the Japanese guy (demon) was Peter. Because in the last part the demon was showing off his hands with holes.
@@papimiggy2261 maybe, but if he has a hole in his hand, maybe he's a sinner ( demon are sinner )
I love the idea of good and evil spirits battling for the soul of this family.
You’re so pretty!
@@whointhewhat thx you too
Who has the good spirit? The girl in white?
@@jollymcdo9248 the woman who tried to stop the policeman from running back home. she's like a land spirit or a genius loci. she watches over the village. her powers to intervene is subtle just like the evil shaman too - no forcefield or fireballs flying from her hands.
This kind of reminds me of how Christianity depicts good and evil vying for our mortal souls. No direct interference but a battle through faith.
I can't wait for someone to make a horror movie call "The Whaling", where someone spends lots of money on lootboxes and not getting what he wanted.
When does the 'Whale' show up?
@@noninoni9962 doesn't show up, just shows off
eh in that case "The Wailing" still works lmao
So it's just a video of the average Nexon player?
-flashbacks to literally every gachapon ever-
The horror
The bouncing back and forth of not knowing who to trust makes this the scariest and we'll produced game of Among Us ever
IM 5 MONTHS LATE BUT THIS COMMENT MADE ME LAUGH
*The Thing
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Just a heads up, it's a barrette, not a beret. A beret is a hat, a barrette is a hair clip.
And then there’s the barret
@@yourordinarytwathere8789 kaboom
50 cal BMG
And then there’s the barete
One thing I noticed about Korean horror/thrillers is that they know how to use Comedy really well whilst not taking away from the events of the film no matter how dark. For example in 'Memories of Murder' there is a running joke about a boot in a film that centres around catching a serial rapist.
The Japanese do it too. Kobo Abe novels are generally considered mysteries but with horror underlying (it's far more apparent in Secret Rendezvous), and the humor generally comes from how dry the narration is when something absurd happens. I noticed a lot of Abe's style cropping up in the works of Ito and Murakami.
This film was sick. That monster reveal was one of creepiest moments I ever seen/
go watch hereditary 😂
This was better than hereditary especially ending
Idk....I wasn't a huge fan of hereditary. It was ok, but I expected more
@@asyrafdanish8131 Hereditary wasn't that scary, it had its moments but wasn't as scary as this movie. This movie scared me 💩less and no horror flick other than exorcism has done to me.
I really liked this movie, and was more creepy than hereditary, but hereditary was more disturbing. I never want to watch hereditary again.
based on the Director`s interview.
In Korea, there is an old superstition that every each area have a ghost who protects the people of the village. They call it "Tochack-ryung" means ghost who stick in the land. So the woman here is a kind of good ghost who is fated to protect the village. She wanted to protect her village from that evil spirit. This is why she was wearing victim`s stuff like cloths, hairpin.
The shaman is connected to the old japanese man. He is also a japanese. A scene where the shaman is changing clothes, he wore the same underwear as the japanese man. Why shaman does all of this is because he tricks the people of the village and earn money through it.
Japanese man is possessed by an evil. Sometimes he is just a normal person and that’s why he was crying at the cliff scene.
While the shaman is performing the ritual, the Japanese man is also suffering - Director said it in the interview, that wasn’t the same time event. The director wanted to make the audience a little bit confused.
this movie has a simple story line but the director cut and slice some scenes and mix it together and that’s why it makes this movie harder to understand.
Based on Director Hong-jin, Na`s interview
This movie is pretty sloppy with cuts that didn't make sense. It seems that when the viewers could not make sense of it, they call it a masterpiece. What a joke.
@@akane8615 incorrect.
@@RobertSlover It's a waste of time, this is the stupidest movie I've seen in awhile.
This isn't an explanation. It's just reiterating what happened during the movie scene by scene.
Exactly
Yes, and it really pisses me off that the video is titled as "ending explained". There is no analysis being done here. What a waste of time.
0:40 when he says that he got scared from watching it, you know it’s a great horror movie
Facts
period.
That dark souls “you died” had me cracking up. Wasn’t expecting that lol
Lmao was waiting for a comment to point it out. Nice
Has anybody noticed what the shaman was wearing when he was changing? There was a blanket covering his body just like what the old japanese man was wearing.
That scene is so underrated
Oh my
Didn't get you ,please explain
@@JohnWick-pp4uy I initially thought that the shaman was going to help them. But he actually made the situation worse. Then i remembered that scene when the shaman was changing his outfit he wore the same garment on the lower body as the old japanese man so yah i think the old japanese man is somehow related to the shaman.
Yeah, saw that, and that time only I realised. is the shaman....???
I'm surprised the biblical themes of the movie haven't been discussed on any youtube video yet.
It opens literally with a bible verse. The entire last part references Jesus' death and resurrection. Also, is it just me or during the shaman's hex ritual, it looks like he's chopping down an effigy of Jesus with a crown?
Also, did you notice the hole in the Japanese man's palm while he's in the cave talking to the priest in training?
I did definitely symbolism for Christianity mythos.
Not to mention the obvious "three crows" from the rooster
@Peepee Poopoo he explains enough, if u want more explanation do it urself. Like go watch someone else. Foundflix is a great fking channel and you sound salty as fk.
@Peepee Poopoo
You don't listen to jack all.
He literally explains the whole movie.
14:01 I believe that at some point before the ritual the Japanese man has become free of the evil spirit and during his ritual he was trying to expel the evil spirit into the corpse in the car. That would explain why the Japanese man seemed so fearful when the mob attacked him.
I agree, and when they threw him over the cliff the sin maybe allowed power
Or maybe the Japanese man wasn’t evil.
Yeah, that makes sense to me. To much dosent add up otherwise.
He was creating a zombie soldier to fight for him because he knew the village men will be coming for him. The demon that possessed him is too strong and his soul is already devoured.
The japanese man was performing rituals to prevent the dead bodies from becoming possessed zombies for the whole movie, otherwise there would have been more zombies. He's a monk performing exorcism rituals, not some kind of random evil guy. The only time a zombie appears is after the japanese guy's ritual is interrupted by the shaman's death hex. The woman in white is an evil spirit causing the curse on the town.
Search Wailing alternative ending where the shaman picks up the Japanese man and they drive off while the woman looks on them, would be interesting to see a sequel or prequel focusing on the woman
The woman is an angel and the shaman was killing the young girl so the devil aka the Japanese man could get her soul. Even though the woman aka the angel warned the girl's father he still did something he wasn't supposed to and ended up ruining his family.
the father was right at the first place for stopping the shaman
Its has alternative ending..!??
Wao Nae she wasn't actually an angel, she was a guardian of the village. A benevolent being.
Andy in other languages she could well be a sacred keeper/guardian/goddess/Angel because English doesn’t really have the word for that specific position of spirit
Korea in general has some damn terrifying mythology, so it's good to see more of their horror movies coming into the mainstream awareness!
Recently, I've found South Korean cinema to be so interesting. From Train to Busan to Monster, to Wailing and Kingdom. So many good films.
And shows
Parasite?
Train to Busan is not that good.
Train to Busan is one of the best movies
Incantation is good also. It's on Netflix I think
It's not a diaper at first, it's the way that certain japanese supernatural shapeshifting creatures called "Oni" wear to cover their genitals.
The Shaman and the Oni were in a deal for human harvests and Korean supernatural folklore where each village has it's own benevolent protecting spirit.
It's an amazing, amazing criss cross on Japanese- Korean folklore as historically Japanese were a really aggressive race and they had Korea annexed under their empire for years.
Japan would be much larger had the succeeded.
I was expecting this "ending explained" video to be at least an hour long because of how confusing the movie was. In a good way of course.
Huge foreshadowing in the beginning btw, with the “fisherman” using a doubled hook…
There’s reasons the woman threw stones as well, reasons why the “2nd shaman” returned to after the woman frightened him away.
But there’s a LOT to unpack given the time. This was one hell of a film
Me, a Catholic, hearing the "wait for the rooster to crow three times": I got that reference.
...explain pls
the priest asked the main character; if he didnt see the spirit, then why he sure that it was real.
Hmmm...
@@MK1vids One of Jesus's disciple who betrays him three times
@@MK1vids it's a biblical reference. Jesus tells one of his disciples Peter, he would have betrayed him 3 times by the time the rooster crows.
@@jaredflores4411 I never said thank you, my apologies ^^
Korean horror flicks, because real life just isn't horrifying enough.
Ah I see you live an easy life
Oldboy would be an easy one to do. There's also memories of a murder is probably my favorite bong joon ho movie based on a true story.
Old boy was preeettyy CRAZY!!!
Memories of a Murder too... the murderer who was the inspiration of the movie watched it in the cinemas a few times even. He is caught now.
Also Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Thirst, and I Saw the Devil would be good ones.
I would say Cold Fish...but I don't think Mr. Flix would want to see that one
@@sanchez6007 Wait he watches it while being on the run?
@@Jordaxio Yup. He was not yet caught at that time when the movie was released. I dont know if you saw the movie...but the ending scene when the main character looked intensely at the viewers...he was hoping he would looked at the eyes of the murderer among the audience...
He has been killing innocent victims for 30 years...
@@sanchez6007 Do you know the name of the murderer? Thats pretty weird and interesting
This movie has 3 subtle underlying themes.
1. Rape and spread of disease through STD.
2. Japanese war crimes against Korea.
3. Christianity(Good) vs Old religion(Bad).
Incredible Observation.Feels like this was the comment I was searching for.
Wht Old Religion?
@@jothishprabu8 probably buddha
Was the good woman practicing Christianity as well? I thought she was also using traditional rituals.
@@lutfianas90 buddhism is not even in this film lmfao
The Wailing is by leaps and bounds the greatest horror movie I've ever seen, and I would argue one of the greatest ever made. I've watched it a few times and still find it fascinating each time. There's more and more to pick up on. So well written. I appreciate your take on the ending. I differ on one point which is that the woman is not possessed by a good spirit. She IS a spirit. I'm no expert on this but I think some aspects of East Asian religion believe in guardian protective spirits of places. These spirits are often venerated at shrines or prayed to by travelers for protection. I think this woman is the village's protective spirit. This explains a few things like how she disappeared without a sound in the charred house, why so few people even see her and nobody knows her (in such a small village), and why she looks pale as a ghost in the ending scenes where she tries to warn the father not to go home. She has an inhuman grayish look to her skin that he doesn't in that scene. You could think of her like the village's spiritual immune system, trying to drive out the evil disease. She isn't human. There's a deleted scene where The Japanese Man attempts to lure a child with candy and fails because the parents usher her away. He then gets in a car with the Shaman and the spirit woman watches them as they drive down the highway, apparently leaving town to find another village to fish for souls in. She doesn't follow them. I think she is bound to the village the story is set in and only protects them. She's not hunting the evil wherever it goes.
Alternatively, the ending is not meant to be entirely cut and dry, as this story has a lot of metaphorical depth about belief, faith, distrust, xenophobia (fear of outsiders), confirmation bias, and so on. The official reports shown on the news in the movie link the rash to a mushroom health tonic, supporting the earlier claim from the police officer. It could be that the real story is that this mushroom tonic made them all develop a fungal infection that causes the rash and crazy behavior and that the demonic activities aside from that were all hallucinated by the victims of the tonic. There are things that push against this being the real story, but I think we're not meant to know exactly what happened, as a main theme of the film is revealed when the devil basically says "I am what you say I am and what I say won't change your mind", probing the viewers to reflect on confirmation biases.
15:09 priest saying how can he be sure if he hasn't seen it with his own eyes.....the irony of that statement could club someone =P
Haha.. yes
Yessss how ironic 🤣🤣
I think that's why the apprentice went down to the cave and told him to reveal himself to him. Sad really. That priest got the apprentice killed. It's very spiritual. Jesus was always frustrated with doubting Thomas because he always wanted proof with Jesus. He just didn't have faith.
Lmao
I’ve waited for this one for a very very long time , probably the only film that genuinely scared me for the last 5 - 10 years lol 🔥🔥🔥
10 years ? But this movie was at 2016
@@lemonquartz464 meaning that they haven't been this scared by a movie in that time range
@@lemonquartz464 means the movie is that good ,haha
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I've been watching his videos for some time but he has never left me with any questions. I thank him for his real sacrifice; Watching some movies that should have long forgotten. Much love my man, Semper Fidelis.
Ok, you're just describing the film for 20 min with zero analysis and with a terribely anoying tone... Impressed.
I just finished watching ryan hollinger's video on this film aswell. What a great timing.
same lol
^^
These two guys should do a crossover
Some dude: *Having a whole seizure, cracks his neck, and literally becomes a fountain of blood*
Me: I think it’s time to get some meat sizzling for a great KBBQ! And at least a gallon of soju for the trauma
Annie Lin KBBQ*
Sounds like EMS workers lol
@@GiDD504 Thanks for the correction!
Just don't eat the mushrooms.
the great thing about this movies is that there are so many interpretations of what was going on. Even if its just about the details, everyone has their own take on the story
The wailing is literally my favorite horror movie of all time.
Man this movie is long but feels so short, the ending made me rethink everything I just watched
Bruh tell me why I thought the title was “The Walking”
we ask tho
Do You like zombies?
I did too but I'm also high so
better then when i read it as "the Walling"
Lili Pich good for you want a medal
One thing I don’t understand… if the woman in white was benevolent, why did she tell him to not go home until the third rooster crow? She told him if he went back early, his whole family would die. But obviously they were already being killed. So even if he’d have waited, he’d have come home to the same result, right?
I think if you rewatch the movie, you can hear the stabbing sound only when he enters his house, which implies only Because he entered his house only, the demon killed his family members.
@@FAF345 I just rewatched that scene, you can't hear any stabbing
@@FAF345wrong, its like an alternate timeline thing. A schrodingers cat situation. It hadn’t happened until he made it happen
As an American, it's mind boggling to me that a person could throw rocks at a cop and not get gunned down or beaten to death.
I dont come here to have an ending explained to me in full detail. No, I come here to watch a movie in 20 minutes. Im literally too lazy to go sit my ass on a couch and be lazy.
To be fair, this movie actually requires you to pay attention
Dude! Same!
Not so much laziness but there are definitely movies I don't feel like watching in their entirety yet I'm still intrigued enough to read the full story on the wiki page or watch one of these videos (on 1.5 speed of course).
I mean it’s a 2.5 hour movie. Can’t blame you.
Heheh
You've given this movie such good praise that I've decided to watch the movie first before watching your video.
Mytresh Madipalli I couldn't help but feel that the praise was for naught. I watched it last year and I wasn't a fan of it back then, and neither am I after watching his video. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion so if you enjoy it I'm happy for you
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Agreed with the above comment.
But to OP, how'd you like it?
I really enjoy your explanations, Felix. You also introduced me to movies I haven't come across yet and gave me a renewed perspective of those which I used to underappreciate. Stay gold :)
Great great job on the video, the time you take to make these is astounding. The fact you add in the words you say in comic txt all big makes me laugh so hard lol even tho it’s a scary review 😂
This movie contains a lot of information about korean traditional religion. Koreans believe that old objects like vases or brooms can contain spirits. Old houses contains holy spirits that protect the house and the family. The woman in white seems to be the protective spirit of the house. When the shaman was doing his ritual he was actually trying to weaken the protective spirit but failed and the ritual backfired, weakening the japanese.
@MrAsap2000as Its true that its mostly related their myths, folklore or even religion, but to paraphrase you, the symbolisms are STILL there. How do you know that implies the demon in question is mocking the priest in the sense that Christianity isnt real, and not that some aspects of Christianity is common to what the movie's in-universe's true mysticism is? In case you're not savvy with phrases, "knock yourself out" means "sure whatever" or "you could say that" means the demon isn't even denying that.
Or hell, the demon might not even care, being a more sinister trickster type and all. But all in all, using Christianity as only for an allusion for offhand mockery without doing anything on either aspects, just implies a laziness in terms of storytelling.
They used Christianity the same way Hollywood uses voodoo, a bit of symbolism and ideas to spice up the act a little and to drop bit of foreshadowing.
@MrAsap2000as I actually think the movie suggests that all good and evil sort of comes from a similar place.
@@sharilshahed6106 Well considering the fact that the movie was one of the greatest in koreans movies, I think it would be better to call it a reference of chirstanity than a lazy writing.
Name a single person in the movie the woman in white protected. None, this whole 'protective spirit' bullshit that everyone is spouting is literally based solely on the fact that she's a cute woman wearing white. For some reason, it's evil when the japanese man is seen with the possessions of people who have already been infected, but when the woman in white is seen wearing clothes and accesories of people before they're infected, it's seen as completely innocent because 'oh she's so cute though!'. She was the evil spirit all along, and the japanese man had been fighting to keep the dead bodies from becoming zombified the whole film(until he died and his own body got possessed). Meanwhile, the korean shaman was neutral. He mistakenly targeted the japanese man with his death hex, realized correctly at the end that the woman in white was the evil spirit, and took photos of the mc's dead family in order to perform the exorcism ritual the japanese man had been doing to prevent them from becoming zombies.
i asked my dad if the ritual scenes are accurate and he said he's seen rituals almost the same as shown in the movie, so this director did his research for the movie and i find that sooo cool!
did his research??? thats his own culture XD he's korean
im19ice3 yeah duh but you'll be surprised at how many ppl make up bs for a movie so i was surprised that it's pretty accurate as opposed yo made up shit, you know?
im19ice3 I’m Chinese and I don’t even know how to do Chinese rituals
@@havenprice china is huge, not that there isnt diversity in korea but geographic limitations do result in a multiculturality within china evidenced by historic power struggles among those groups, korea has a more unified worldview solidified by the nationalist sentiment against outsider invations. do feel free to ignore me though, i wont claim expertise
@@wonderthigh good point. i'd also consider it brave since real people who follow such rites might take offense.
I've watched it 4x now ..even though the ending is crystal clear... its still difficult to reconcile with Il Gwang's (the Shaman) initial purpose. The grandmother brought him to help Hyo Jin...was he waiting for his invitation to work against the family?. Hyo Jin was already 'sick' with the evil spirit. Was Il Gwang making it worse? What was the father's sin? Who did he accuse? He was against the Japanese man from the start. I appreciate the way the film keeps us from the truth until the end..but it's still not completely clear
Gwang was working along with the devil, and yes he was making it worse
@@lonewolf9009 The shaman tried to kill the monk (The japanese guy posessed by the devil) when u saw the scene where they battle it out, shaman overpowers the devil but the father of the daughter interrupted the Shamans death hex (ritual) because his ritual not only hurts the devil, it also hurts his daughter, so he stopped it and it gave the devil a chance to escape (u can see that when the battle of ritual ended, the monk (japanese guy) was not posessed anymore at that time, and became normal human, the devil instead posessed the shaman and tricked the family that the Lady who was guiding them was the evil one, and lost faith in her especially when he saw her wearing the belongings of the people that were killed by the demon, this includes her daughters hairpin, he went home and once he reaches home, the trap that the lady set up to trap the demon got nullified and this heralds the death of the entire family. Shaman then comes back to the house and took photos of the dead people (as what the posessed monk also does to his victim)
Saw this years ago and ABSOLUTELY love it. They did such a good job with this one.
This movie especially the old man’s true form haunted me for days after
it felt like..i dnt wana watch the whole movie, but im interested but then watching it will hunt me for days...😭😭😭
I saw it about 3 years ago but when he showed that scene in the cave....it still gave me fear goosebumps
i wanna watch just to see the cave scene lol
Fr, no devil reveal has scared me more than this one and exorcist.
Really?
I love this channel because he just tells us the entire movies in 20 minutes
The best part is he doesn’t use soft language to try to soothe the way his words land. He straight to the point about it
AGREED!!!!And tells it SO WELL!
This definitely looks like a movie I need to check out myself - I was expecting it to be more about how automatically distrusting outsiders isn't always wise, but was pleasantly surprised at the ending not being expected.
This movie has so many twists and kept you interested for 3 friggen hours. Great movie
If you know the saying "Let he (she, in this case) who is without sin cast the first stone" you can figure out who the good one is early, but her playfully throwing rocks isn't going to trigger that when shit gets going. A great way to tell you early, before lines are even drawn. A second watching casts new light on this gem.
True and the roster crowing 3 times is also a powerful reference that she was a good person because it was evidently a line used by Jesus. What if he waited for the 3rd crow, would it have changed anything? What if the Shamans ritual had succeeded? What led the Shaman to leave? And what changed their mind? Let's there is a lot to unpack.
I'm going to suggest the movie '23' staring Jim Carrey once again. It's a good movie that I personally really liked and it can be quite confusing so it'd be perfect for an Ending Explained
Really loved the video as always, keep up the great work :)
Yes, I agree👍
That movie was god awful!!! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JSUTrumpet yeah it's generally considered to be.. Not very good 🤣 foundflix would make it entertaining regardless though
Well I personally liked it. That's what I meant by 'good movie'
I loved seeing jim Carrey not play a comedic role. And I loved the movie. I thought he crushed it !
Love the content!!! His voice is so soothing!!
13:51 “As you do”😂
I'm pretty sure this movie has something to do with Japanese war crimes during WWII. Japanese man equals Japan, naked woman equals comfort women, chaos comes with Japan.
Yeah, pretty much.
Most Koreans don't like Japan. Japan has invaded Korea multiple times in the past, not just in WW2.
From what I’ve read, this was liked in Japan though even if it didn’t show in many theaters. I find it almost sad how people elsewhere can still enjoy these movies even with negative symbolism towards them while here in America, where I live, currently even imagined insults start huge Twitter riots.
DeadlyDanDaMan not true
@@nevermore7285 It helps that this is just a really great movie. And while the Japanese man probably does symbolize Japan in WW2, it doesn't beat you over the head with it and it doesn't exactly villainize all Japanese people.
One of the best horror film ever. There is a alternative ending that you could watch on YT.
It basically led to the same conclusion. It just reaffirm those two shaman knew each other beforehand and moving on together.
P.s I've no idea that throwing stone scene is a biblical reference.
btw that wasnt an alternate ending,it was a deleted scene from the beginning,but deleted later cause it gave too much away
I suppose the stone throwing scene could have been a reference. From what I understand, Koreans and Japanese like to spice up their stories with bits of westernisms to make them seem deeper and stuff. Kinda like what Hollywood does with Chi and other Asian cultural features.
@@Darkgun231 I think it's because about 29% of Korean are Christian so no wonder they put biblical references in the film.
@@truclinhnguyen3201the director is actually also a Christian
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I'm from somewhere in the time line, just binge watching your stuff and wanted to say you're doing great!
The freakiest part about the lightning strike is it defies the physics of lightning to go straight for that guy amongst the much taller trees.
This flip flop who is evil approach reminds me a lot of The Handmaid. It's also a South Korean movie that was pretty good.
Literally saw an ad of that yesterday wtf
The handmaid is soooo good
@@shrekpaidaisuki4912 do you mean the handmaiden? If so then lol I also saw it yesterday. Really good movie.
I was literally reading a post on reddit about this movie exactly 2 hours ago. And then Jamie post a video on it. Coincidence...
*I THINK NOT*
What community was that in?
@@s1mplem4gic58 there was actually two. One was an ask reddit post about what movie was actually scary, and the second one was a post on r/movie.
@@mrfudge2861 okay thanks
@Mr Fudge his name is Chris, Jaime is his wife
Love foundflix never stop thanks for everyvideo from a movie fanatic ✌️
Thank you so much for making this video ! I have to admit that I was quite confused at the end when I watched this movie... I really hope you'll do Train to Busan someday ! Thank you for the great work!
I saw Ryan Hollinger's thoughts on the movie, but I was waiting for this full review!!
Oh look, a movie I have never seen and didn't even know existed.
Guess I'll watch it through Foundflix 🤷🏻♂️
Alec Cross don’t, I highly recommend you watch this movie in its full. Easily one of the greatest horror films I’ve watched
Ive been using this channel as a way to get recommendations and reviews before watching any horror movie. 10/10 never disappointed .
FoundFlix has a great knack for bringing up films I've somehow managed to repress in my subconscious.
This is how a modern day Dracula should be made. You still have the central theme to Dracula but new enough for a modern audience. The main theme of Dracula was the fear of promiscuity. You’ve got a sexual transmitted virus that makes monsters.
The Chaser is a great Korean thriller that you should do a FoundFlix for.
i don’t remember how i ever found my way to this channel...but man i’m glad i did
This is easily the funniest one yet! i wish you added more little cheeky things to your other videos like you did in this
For people who enjoy the kind of hopeless atmosphere presented in a film like this and haven't seen Oldboy, check it out ASAP. Used to be the Korean film that everyone knew, but now that Parasite has taken that spot, I thought I would plug it for everyone else. Not quite horror, but I would call it horror adjacent and definitely fucked up and interesting enough for someone who likes the wailing
Great movie! Watched it last year some time before Parasite.
i've heard it called psychological horror
Everybody has seen those films
Oldboy is one of the most f***ed up movies I ever saw but at the same time one of the best movies I ever saw. Classic!
im pretty sure everyone knows oldboy, and once again whenever i mention this korean masterpiece i always say this: fuck the american remake
Korea still makes the most scary intense horror flicks over the yeads
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Anime clips gtfo gross weeb
As I saw the man coming down the rock I remembered that I’ve seen this movie before and got more confused than scared
One of the best things about this channel is that it never changed, its been the same since 10,000
Just watched this movie and the main lesson for me was to not be emotional and rash when you make decisions, I think that is where the cop failed at the end.
If he had just taken a step back and been objective for a sec, there were so many clues that the old man was really the evil one, it was so obvious, but he never took the time to think about it, he was just acting on impulses the whole movie.
He was so freaking emotional with every decision, and the cops were lazy and cowards too. The guy literally saw a room full of satanic rituals and photos of the murdered yet they just looked past it like it was nothing
@@archivez101 These were like some of the worst and worthless cops I have ever seen. They should have sent american cops over there and movie would have been finished when they found the pictures by killing the japanese guy.
This may be the most complicated summary I have ever heard.
the women is wearing white, a sign of purity this also shows how she was the good one sad times...
I was so lost at the end of the movie thank you for your hard work and very in depth analysis on this confusing film lol