Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about 2016’s The Wailing and 2025’s Exhuma.

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We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. We talk about the films Sinners, Clown In A Cornfield, and Heart Eyes, as well as the television series The Last Of Us and the novel The Devils by Joe Abercrombie.

Up first is The Wailing. We start by talking about actor Jun Kunimura’s extensive filmography. We talk about our initial experience with the film, with Liam talking about how much he enjoyed it the second time around.

Justin talks about the convoluted but not messy nature of the plot, and how the concept of a character whose presence incites violence in those surrounding him.

We spend a goodish amount of time discussing the history of Japanese imperialism and how that has essentially scarred the collective psyche of Korea, and how the result Korean prejudice towards the Japanese is, if nothing else, understandable.

We talk about how the Japanese character in the film feels almost like a red herring set up but ultimately is far worse than what we’re led to believe. We brief talk about the original ending of the film and how that affects the rest of the movie and why the director may have chosen to change it.

Up next is Exhuma. Justin talks about how the film draws upon religious ecstasy and the nature of ritual for a source of horror.

We discuss how the film could’ve simply been about a geomancer dealing with a restless vengeful ghost but instead chooses to, just as The Wailing did, fold Korean history into the mix by once again using Japanese atrocities a source of horror.

HORROR BUSINESS Episode 158: THE WAILING & EXHUMA