THE WAILING (2016) Ending Explained

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  • @MichaelZoidberg
    @MichaelZoidberg 4 роки тому +18685

    Has anyone noticed this dude has never put an ad into his videos. No sponsors, just pure greatness. Much respect

    • @MichaelZoidberg
      @MichaelZoidberg 4 роки тому +759

      No raycons or mystery killer box or shadow legends.....

    • @jdub7986
      @jdub7986 4 роки тому +452

      I thought he was sponsored by that audiobook thinh

    • @burntrosechick
      @burntrosechick 4 роки тому +786

      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 UA-cam feel.
      Just reaching out, spreading the word to his fellow movie lovers. Real passion projects.

    • @gail6552
      @gail6552 4 роки тому +454

      I believe he has but it’s very few and he doesn’t make a 10 minute out of it. He’s a keeper!

    • @TeamNerdHerd
      @TeamNerdHerd 4 роки тому +358

      Read this comment while watching an ad LOL

  • @ezmaze42
    @ezmaze42 4 роки тому +8479

    Yeah if it's a horror movie and it's Korean, don't expect a happy ending

    • @jedlugod3343
      @jedlugod3343 4 роки тому +164

      I agree. lol

    • @renaissancebatman
      @renaissancebatman 4 роки тому +578

      Train to busan flashback intensifies.

    • @fernherr5985
      @fernherr5985 4 роки тому +41

      Mild Mango. lmaoo love that reference

    • @jonp96
      @jonp96 4 роки тому +189

      Yeah actually a lot of Korean movies I've watched don't really have a happy ending lol

    • @BG-qf7kc
      @BG-qf7kc 4 роки тому +259

      Found it a little interesting that the evil was a Japanese person. Like Russians are portrayed as antogonists in an American film,lol.

  • @nico6143
    @nico6143 4 роки тому +2665

    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

    • @rjcarillo1414
      @rjcarillo1414 4 роки тому +135

      I've seen a lot of Korean products such as manga and movies that have anti-japanese message and it's same with china

    • @ainmon5875
      @ainmon5875 3 роки тому +344

      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.

    • @FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_
      @FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ 3 роки тому +122

      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.

    • @millsykooksy4863
      @millsykooksy4863 3 роки тому

      Yes!!!!

    • @user-ix3vu6um4p
      @user-ix3vu6um4p 3 роки тому +19

      What a conversation of low intelligence.

  • @Evelyn-pl3we
    @Evelyn-pl3we 4 роки тому +6290

    *Sees bones crack, boils, and demonic eyes/behaviors*
    Town: *Must be mushrooms*

    • @DFloyd84
      @DFloyd84 4 роки тому +56

      Nurgle's Rot, my friend. We don't stick around long enough to see them become Plaguebearers.

    • @ReicHHere
      @ReicHHere 4 роки тому +20

      Always has been

    • @jvmango3057
      @jvmango3057 4 роки тому +13

      Yep Mario's the impostor

    • @Ghiaccio515
      @Ghiaccio515 4 роки тому +3

      Can you do Tusk next

    • @indian4914
      @indian4914 4 роки тому +6

      Soldier have a arrow to the head.
      Character hides
      Soldiet-must be the wind

  • @merlin1464
    @merlin1464 4 роки тому +3007

    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).

    • @nevermore7285
      @nevermore7285 4 роки тому +212

      Oni are typically depicted wearing nothing but undergarments in a lot of things

    • @FoxFireNaruto
      @FoxFireNaruto 4 роки тому +82

      @@nevermore7285 That's a neat detail.

    • @gabrielloeb8852
      @gabrielloeb8852 4 роки тому +265

      @@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

    • @sarahvasquez4948
      @sarahvasquez4948 4 роки тому +52

      sole survivor you sound like fun

    • @gumiho8352
      @gumiho8352 4 роки тому +131

      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

  • @adrl6425
    @adrl6425 4 роки тому +1418

    "Not everything that breathes or moves is alive"
    Damn, I've felt that.

    • @toddhoward1498
      @toddhoward1498 4 роки тому +17

      Can relate

    • @ApatheticBlogger
      @ApatheticBlogger 3 роки тому +6

      me thinking bout those shroomy boyes

    • @DeadShot17334
      @DeadShot17334 3 роки тому +1

      Huh what

    • @GingerBreadMan1178
      @GingerBreadMan1178 3 роки тому +9

      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.

    • @keshi6791
      @keshi6791 3 роки тому +6

      Yeah, like : Is that a personal attack or something?

  • @Ninaloasana
    @Ninaloasana 4 роки тому +7171

    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

    • @abc6100
      @abc6100 4 роки тому +970

      thats disgusting omg i never noticed this

    • @Ninaloasana
      @Ninaloasana 4 роки тому +722

      @@abc6100 paused on 9:54. The picture on the daughter's journal

    • @Ninaloasana
      @Ninaloasana 4 роки тому +165

      @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.

    • @lalboimanlun1230
      @lalboimanlun1230 4 роки тому +118

      @@Ninaloasana just tap on the time and it'll return to normal. I was confused as well before I realised.

    • @Ninaloasana
      @Ninaloasana 4 роки тому +61

      @@lalboimanlun1230 oh wow thanks for the tips

  • @faronjoseph84
    @faronjoseph84 4 роки тому +3328

    I love Japanese and Korean horror flicks, they're more about the story than cheap jump scares.

    • @frogboyfrosty
      @frogboyfrosty 4 роки тому +57

      Asian horror movies :))

    • @cameronfield7313
      @cameronfield7313 4 роки тому +25

      They know atmosphere ^^

    • @killjoyer
      @killjoyer 4 роки тому +81

      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)

    • @johannesalvarez4057
      @johannesalvarez4057 4 роки тому +25

      @@killjoyer Indonesian here,i deffinately agree,most indonesian horror movies lacks a genuine plot and rely on cheap jumpscares

    • @dailylifeofanything399
      @dailylifeofanything399 4 роки тому +1

      Well said

  • @Elle_Rou
    @Elle_Rou 3 роки тому +3525

    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

    • @rye-eye
      @rye-eye 3 роки тому +150

      i literally lose some braincells after watching this

    • @helenvlmawii479
      @helenvlmawii479 3 роки тому +5

      Same

    • @Airfryer208
      @Airfryer208 3 роки тому +14

      it was easy to understand

    • @kelonchoe
      @kelonchoe 3 роки тому +65

      I got goosebumps at the cave scene

    • @philantemalone9675
      @philantemalone9675 3 роки тому +10

      Did she beat him up when he fell?

  • @xenasta7314
    @xenasta7314 4 роки тому +2684

    so when he transformed into a demon he simultaneously whipped out his camera proving that vloggers are demons

    • @kahnfatman
      @kahnfatman 4 роки тому +48

      With a Fandom site too!

    • @BillyYo17
      @BillyYo17 3 роки тому +66

      He is logan paul by filming dead people

    • @duantorruellas716
      @duantorruellas716 3 роки тому +9

      I can see him walking into a Kinkos or a fotomat trying to get that film developed looking like that.

    • @repmidwest
      @repmidwest 3 роки тому +6

      Let it be noted that the demon shot on film and even developed its own pictures.

    • @joekerr5418
      @joekerr5418 3 роки тому

      Accurate interpretation

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +2151

    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.

    • @sionming9064
      @sionming9064 4 роки тому +5

      Oh hi it's you again old friend, I saw you everywhere :v

    • @tayzatun6351
      @tayzatun6351 4 роки тому +2

      You don't know me but I do you

    • @diavolo9053
      @diavolo9053 4 роки тому +2

      nice 169 likes

    • @hadeskiller1
      @hadeskiller1 4 роки тому +22

      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”.

    • @0lioderso
      @0lioderso 4 роки тому

      Ah yes, you again

  • @robynsriot
    @robynsriot 3 роки тому +1160

    My favourite part is the grandma being like: my child does not eat this food, who are you tiny imposter!

  • @meris8486
    @meris8486 4 роки тому +2037

    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

    • @connorboyd9986
      @connorboyd9986 4 роки тому +14

      Well 15 more years until that for me so
      WiSh YoU lUcK
      Also get some sleep it’s good for you

    • @nayeonim4632
      @nayeonim4632 4 роки тому +78

      .It is really terrifying as a father being clueless that your daughter was raped by a demon.

    • @michaelabear8685
      @michaelabear8685 4 роки тому

      Nayeon Im she wa raped?

    • @PhongNguyen-re8ij
      @PhongNguyen-re8ij 4 роки тому +41

      @@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.

    • @Leoprincess3038
      @Leoprincess3038 4 роки тому +6

      Hell yea I watched it today and that scene was definitely creepy as hell 😂😂😶

  • @claymenefee6999
    @claymenefee6999 4 роки тому +2079

    When the dude who watches horror films for a living gets scarred, you know its gonna be a good film.

    • @sinanaldulaymi4103
      @sinanaldulaymi4103 4 роки тому +35

      Clay Menefee I thought it was mediocre at best when I watched it. I have a feeling he overhyped it by a lot

    • @chiefbologna5719
      @chiefbologna5719 4 роки тому +18

      Sinan Aldulaymi took me a couple watches to enjoy it tbh, the first few I was uninterested but the director is amazing

    • @sinanaldulaymi4103
      @sinanaldulaymi4103 4 роки тому +18

      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 😅

    • @GetAtMeG
      @GetAtMeG 4 роки тому +38

      @@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

    • @sinanaldulaymi4103
      @sinanaldulaymi4103 4 роки тому +3

      Janek Rakieta exactly my point

  • @virthuss
    @virthuss 2 роки тому +693

    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.

    • @bumpsy
      @bumpsy Рік тому +9

      "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

    • @lastmanstanding5423
      @lastmanstanding5423 Рік тому +105

      your comment answered way more questions than the video.
      well done bro

    • @blackblurable
      @blackblurable Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @aidengrimes5216
      @aidengrimes5216 Рік тому

      @@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

    • @brucekendall9873
      @brucekendall9873 Рік тому +12

      @@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

  • @aradmas7653
    @aradmas7653 4 роки тому +560

    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.

    • @ItzNotCiscoTTV-ApexLegends
      @ItzNotCiscoTTV-ApexLegends 3 роки тому

      After he imagined being chased??

    • @fangirlalways3853
      @fangirlalways3853 3 роки тому +12

      @@ItzNotCiscoTTV-ApexLegends turned out he wasn’t imagining

    • @wave-vi1jz
      @wave-vi1jz 3 роки тому +99

      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.

    • @jollymcdo9248
      @jollymcdo9248 2 роки тому +1

      Is the girl in white the good spirit or the bad one? I am so confused🤔

    • @kish4corheunbl
      @kish4corheunbl 2 роки тому +5

      @@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

  • @officerwaifu6408
    @officerwaifu6408 4 роки тому +449

    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.

    • @bananatiergod
      @bananatiergod 3 роки тому +18

      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.

    • @pb.j.1753
      @pb.j.1753 2 роки тому +6

      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.

    • @p3nnylane
      @p3nnylane 8 місяців тому +1

      This

    • @SolidGeddoe
      @SolidGeddoe 7 місяців тому +2

      @@pb.j.1753 I just watched the movie and enjoyed it,and the scene with the shaman ritual dance made me feel like something wasn't right about him,it felt like he was part of the evil one lol

  • @EHAmos
    @EHAmos 4 роки тому +780

    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

    • @KalanaSW
      @KalanaSW 3 роки тому +7

      something I noticed too

    • @MW-pw1sp
      @MW-pw1sp 3 роки тому +12

      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 :]

    • @ajays1453
      @ajays1453 3 роки тому +2

      @@MW-pw1sp she ain't no shaman

    • @wilyounghusband5267
      @wilyounghusband5267 3 роки тому +3

      And I guess that happened because of the lady's set trap?

    • @sbrosier2383
      @sbrosier2383 3 роки тому +8

      Scene was gnarly...While gushing blood from his nose

  • @madblackliam
    @madblackliam 4 роки тому +1466

    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"

    • @wharghoul5012
      @wharghoul5012 4 роки тому +412

      He had to have faith and make the decision on his own

    • @buffwarriors
      @buffwarriors 4 роки тому +132

      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

    • @ru997
      @ru997 4 роки тому +260

      @@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.

    • @lilyofthevalley8224
      @lilyofthevalley8224 4 роки тому +289

      She's not a human possessed by spirit... She's more like a guardian spirit of the villiage...like in many Asian folklore

    • @dec23
      @dec23 3 роки тому +93

      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.

  • @tierk4328
    @tierk4328 4 роки тому +268

    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.

    • @12ealDealOfficial
      @12ealDealOfficial Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @skyeinc1208
    @skyeinc1208 4 роки тому +296

    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.

    • @teetheluchador
      @teetheluchador 2 роки тому +6

      @Bla Bla they did

    • @starborn6239
      @starborn6239 Рік тому +1

      ​@teetheluchador when?

    • @happythanos6632
      @happythanos6632 Рік тому +5

      ​@@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.

    • @starborn6239
      @starborn6239 Рік тому +1

      @@happythanos6632 i know that, im just tryna say it did not work cause his family was eliminated anyway...

    • @zainestymest3615
      @zainestymest3615 Рік тому

      @@starborn6239 reason

  • @chris_hawk
    @chris_hawk 4 роки тому +221

    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.

  • @queendsheena1
    @queendsheena1 4 роки тому +876

    I love the idea of good and evil spirits battling for the soul of this family.

    • @whointhewhat
      @whointhewhat 4 роки тому +11

      You’re so pretty!

    • @Davidscomix
      @Davidscomix 4 роки тому +2

      @@whointhewhat thx you too

    • @jollymcdo9248
      @jollymcdo9248 2 роки тому

      Who has the good spirit? The girl in white?

    • @endorkugo
      @endorkugo Рік тому +2

      @@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.

    • @cheeseburgerpaladin
      @cheeseburgerpaladin Рік тому +2

      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.

  • @evanb0869
    @evanb0869 4 роки тому +662

    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

    • @ShrawanMagar
      @ShrawanMagar 3 роки тому +5

      Exactly my thought

    • @wilyounghusband5267
      @wilyounghusband5267 3 роки тому +15

      Yeah him crying below the cliff was probably put by the director/writer to throw the audience off

    • @JeffreyjkKlein
      @JeffreyjkKlein 3 роки тому +10

      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.

    • @somber8233
      @somber8233 3 роки тому +20

      @@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.

    • @Amharizz
      @Amharizz 3 роки тому

      @@somber8233 right

  • @Fubukio
    @Fubukio 4 роки тому +810

    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.

    • @noninoni9962
      @noninoni9962 4 роки тому +20

      When does the 'Whale' show up?

    • @HercadosP
      @HercadosP 4 роки тому +41

      @@noninoni9962 doesn't show up, just shows off

    • @chaijiahao221
      @chaijiahao221 4 роки тому +5

      eh in that case "The Wailing" still works lmao

    • @triopsate3
      @triopsate3 4 роки тому +6

      So it's just a video of the average Nexon player?
      -flashbacks to literally every gachapon ever-

    • @bored_potato
      @bored_potato 4 роки тому +1

      The horror

  • @tabiBLAKEMORE
    @tabiBLAKEMORE 3 роки тому +264

    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.

    • @connorhagerty537
      @connorhagerty537 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @moonsofix
      @moonsofix 2 роки тому +13

      He also totally had holes in his hands when the Shaman dude comes to him, so many layers in this movie

    • @papimiggy2261
      @papimiggy2261 11 місяців тому +5

      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.

    • @JosephBisnar-y1s
      @JosephBisnar-y1s 11 місяців тому

      ​@@papimiggy2261 maybe, but if he has a hole in his hand, maybe he's a sinner ( demon are sinner )

    • @anneboyd7811
      @anneboyd7811 6 місяців тому

      The movie starts with a Bible passage on screen in Korean. Luke 24:37-39, when Jesus comes back to his disciples after being raised from the dead. The subtitles have the NIV translation: "They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” Which sets up the themes of the movie about not knowing what (or who) to believe, including your own eyes and senses (is a man really a ghost? Is what's happening now actually a dream? Is the Devil trying to trick us?)
      When the Japanese man reveals his "true form" he shows that he has holes in his hands, which recalls John 20:24-31 (Doubting Thomas) - Thomas isn't there the first time Jesus appears and he refuses to believe that the others really saw him in the flesh. So Jesus appears again when he's there and shows his wounds. The Japanese man/Devil character seems to be mocking the religious character by doing this to "prove" who he is.

  • @likeabigboiii6324
    @likeabigboiii6324 4 роки тому +434

    The bouncing back and forth of not knowing who to trust makes this the scariest and we'll produced game of Among Us ever

  • @Dio-Mojo
    @Dio-Mojo 4 роки тому +639

    This film was sick. That monster reveal was one of creepiest moments I ever seen/

    • @asyrafdanish8131
      @asyrafdanish8131 4 роки тому +17

      go watch hereditary 😂

    • @ilqar887
      @ilqar887 4 роки тому +86

      This was better than hereditary especially ending

    • @jillianpantano6461
      @jillianpantano6461 4 роки тому +16

      Idk....I wasn't a huge fan of hereditary. It was ok, but I expected more

    • @ineffablenefarious2799
      @ineffablenefarious2799 3 роки тому +7

      @@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.

    • @seattleguy8230
      @seattleguy8230 3 роки тому +10

      I really liked this movie, and was more creepy than hereditary, but hereditary was more disturbing. I never want to watch hereditary again.

  • @RobertSlover
    @RobertSlover 2 роки тому +153

    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

    • @akane8615
      @akane8615 Рік тому +11

      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.

    • @RobertSlover
      @RobertSlover Рік тому +18

      @@akane8615 incorrect.

    • @akane8615
      @akane8615 Рік тому

      @@RobertSlover It's a waste of time, this is the stupidest movie I've seen in awhile.

    • @tyronemana6479
      @tyronemana6479 2 місяці тому

      Get outta here

  • @cierramandeville-jordan6786
    @cierramandeville-jordan6786 4 роки тому +217

    Just a heads up, it's a barrette, not a beret. A beret is a hat, a barrette is a hair clip.

  • @DeputyMcNuggets
    @DeputyMcNuggets 4 роки тому +43

    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.

  • @shawnlopez3496
    @shawnlopez3496 3 роки тому +143

    This isn't an explanation. It's just reiterating what happened during the movie scene by scene.

    • @AnasKhan-mi1yx
      @AnasKhan-mi1yx 3 роки тому +11

      Exactly

    • @SnowconeWilly
      @SnowconeWilly 8 місяців тому +28

      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.

  • @Yoroiful
    @Yoroiful 4 роки тому +72

    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.

  • @annielin8412
    @annielin8412 4 роки тому +789

    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

    • @GiDD504
      @GiDD504 4 роки тому +3

      Annie Lin KBBQ*

    • @stephysteph9538
      @stephysteph9538 4 роки тому +2

      Sounds like EMS workers lol

    • @annielin8412
      @annielin8412 4 роки тому

      @@GiDD504 Thanks for the correction!

    • @joshbnimble
      @joshbnimble 4 роки тому

      Just don't eat the mushrooms.

  • @mico8187
    @mico8187 4 роки тому +454

    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?

    • @WatPatat
      @WatPatat 4 роки тому +149

      Also, did you notice the hole in the Japanese man's palm while he's in the cave talking to the priest in training?

    • @jmillzoryan9763
      @jmillzoryan9763 4 роки тому +23

      I did definitely symbolism for Christianity mythos.

    • @joesteel6361
      @joesteel6361 4 роки тому +89

      Not to mention the obvious "three crows" from the rooster

    • @WhySoGhetto
      @WhySoGhetto 4 роки тому +3

      @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.

    • @HZTenh17g
      @HZTenh17g 4 роки тому

      @Peepee Poopoo
      You don't listen to jack all.
      He literally explains the whole movie.

  • @markgeoffreyramos3845
    @markgeoffreyramos3845 4 роки тому +130

    0:40 when he says that he got scared from watching it, you know it’s a great horror movie

  • @FinancialShinanigan
    @FinancialShinanigan 4 роки тому +421

    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

    • @waonae4955
      @waonae4955 4 роки тому +70

      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.

    • @abc6100
      @abc6100 4 роки тому +35

      the father was right at the first place for stopping the shaman

    • @popo-yq5je
      @popo-yq5je 4 роки тому +6

      Its has alternative ending..!??

    • @Andy-bb4kd
      @Andy-bb4kd 4 роки тому +30

      Wao Nae she wasn't actually an angel, she was a guardian of the village. A benevolent being.

    • @killjoyer
      @killjoyer 4 роки тому +10

      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

  • @LiZa-kj6dy
    @LiZa-kj6dy 4 роки тому +192

    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.

    • @VipinDahiya3
      @VipinDahiya3 3 роки тому +12

      That scene is so underrated

    • @oliverosalexae
      @oliverosalexae 3 роки тому

      Oh my

    • @JohnWick-pp4uy
      @JohnWick-pp4uy 3 роки тому

      Didn't get you ,please explain

    • @LiZa-kj6dy
      @LiZa-kj6dy 3 роки тому +19

      @@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.

    • @ShivamKumar110
      @ShivamKumar110 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, saw that, and that time only I realised. is the shaman....???

  • @merlin1464
    @merlin1464 4 роки тому +279

    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.

    • @andrewdickens7016
      @andrewdickens7016 4 роки тому +8

      I agree, and when they threw him over the cliff the sin maybe allowed power

    • @hadeskiller1
      @hadeskiller1 4 роки тому +4

      Or maybe the Japanese man wasn’t evil.

    • @GrimgoreIronhide
      @GrimgoreIronhide 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah, that makes sense to me. To much dosent add up otherwise.

    • @Semirouser
      @Semirouser 4 роки тому +15

      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.

    • @connorhagerty537
      @connorhagerty537 2 роки тому +1

      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.

  • @LK_Ultra
    @LK_Ultra 4 роки тому +145

    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.

    • @san1975nas
      @san1975nas 4 роки тому +6

      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.

    • @nightmare-nightmarenightma1147
      @nightmare-nightmarenightma1147 4 роки тому +3

      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

    • @Jordaxio
      @Jordaxio 4 роки тому

      @@san1975nas Wait he watches it while being on the run?

    • @san1975nas
      @san1975nas 4 роки тому +3

      @@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...

    • @Jordaxio
      @Jordaxio 4 роки тому

      @@san1975nas Do you know the name of the murderer? Thats pretty weird and interesting

  • @PHENOXSPARTAN
    @PHENOXSPARTAN 4 роки тому +75

    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.

    • @PHENOXSPARTAN
      @PHENOXSPARTAN 4 роки тому +5

      And shows

    • @daebak7370
      @daebak7370 3 роки тому +3

      Parasite?

    • @ltr1745
      @ltr1745 2 роки тому +1

      Train to Busan is not that good.

    • @radmanchris2446
      @radmanchris2446 Рік тому +2

      Train to Busan is one of the best movies

    • @juanramirez5898
      @juanramirez5898 11 місяців тому

      Incantation is good also. It's on Netflix I think

  • @danielcasas9244
    @danielcasas9244 4 роки тому +168

    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

    • @Aditi-eq1um
      @Aditi-eq1um 4 роки тому +2

      Haha.. yes

    • @MinhNguyen-lr7my
      @MinhNguyen-lr7my 4 роки тому +3

      Yessss how ironic 🤣🤣

    • @dec23
      @dec23 3 роки тому +21

      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.

    • @manpreetchavan
      @manpreetchavan 3 роки тому +1

      Lmao

  • @the2ndsaint
    @the2ndsaint 4 роки тому +293

    Korean horror flicks, because real life just isn't horrifying enough.

    • @archivez101
      @archivez101 4 роки тому +7

      Ah I see you live an easy life

  • @Gonroamin
    @Gonroamin 4 роки тому +91

    Korea in general has some damn terrifying mythology, so it's good to see more of their horror movies coming into the mainstream awareness!

    • @ClaudioGomboli
      @ClaudioGomboli 3 місяці тому +1

      China and Japan as well, their mythology and folklore is connected a lot since it comes mainly from China.

  • @HitItFromTheBack47
    @HitItFromTheBack47 4 роки тому +209

    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 🔥🔥🔥

    • @lemonquartz464
      @lemonquartz464 4 роки тому +2

      10 years ? But this movie was at 2016

    • @uhhhpersoniguess
      @uhhhpersoniguess 4 роки тому +16

      @@lemonquartz464 meaning that they haven't been this scared by a movie in that time range

    • @sdqsdq6274
      @sdqsdq6274 3 роки тому

      @@lemonquartz464 means the movie is that good ,haha

    • @wolfrevengington2618
      @wolfrevengington2618 2 роки тому

      😴

  • @justafilipinonamedjake
    @justafilipinonamedjake 4 роки тому +96

    I just finished watching ryan hollinger's video on this film aswell. What a great timing.

  • @noralavins4544
    @noralavins4544 4 роки тому +173

    Me, a Catholic, hearing the "wait for the rooster to crow three times": I got that reference.

    • @MK1vids
      @MK1vids 4 роки тому +15

      ...explain pls

    • @MinhNguyen-lr7my
      @MinhNguyen-lr7my 4 роки тому +7

      the priest asked the main character; if he didnt see the spirit, then why he sure that it was real.
      Hmmm...

    • @jaredflores4411
      @jaredflores4411 4 роки тому +47

      @@MK1vids One of Jesus's disciple who betrays him three times

    • @dec23
      @dec23 3 роки тому +40

      @@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.

    • @MK1vids
      @MK1vids 3 роки тому +1

      @@jaredflores4411 I never said thank you, my apologies ^^

  • @brandonbaxter7307
    @brandonbaxter7307 4 роки тому +673

    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.

    • @rosesweetcharlotte
      @rosesweetcharlotte 4 роки тому +44

      To be fair, this movie actually requires you to pay attention

    • @scribeofrebirth1431
      @scribeofrebirth1431 4 роки тому +4

      Dude! Same!

    • @Siile_
      @Siile_ 4 роки тому +11

      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).

    • @hadeskiller1
      @hadeskiller1 4 роки тому +8

      I mean it’s a 2.5 hour movie. Can’t blame you.

    • @Jabberwocky99
      @Jabberwocky99 4 роки тому

      Heheh

  • @c40ra19
    @c40ra19 4 роки тому +62

    Man this movie is long but feels so short, the ending made me rethink everything I just watched

  • @RagnaRantz
    @RagnaRantz 2 роки тому +65

    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

  • @nerd_entangled
    @nerd_entangled 4 роки тому +59

    You've given this movie such good praise that I've decided to watch the movie first before watching your video.

    • @sinanaldulaymi4103
      @sinanaldulaymi4103 4 роки тому

      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

    • @TheRealRyanMickens
      @TheRealRyanMickens 4 роки тому +2

      @@sinanaldulaymi4103
      Agreed with the above comment.
      But to OP, how'd you like it?

  • @refine8866
    @refine8866 4 роки тому +86

    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.

    • @sharilshahed6106
      @sharilshahed6106 4 роки тому +7

      ​@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.

    • @nevermore7285
      @nevermore7285 4 роки тому +8

      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.

    • @rosesweetcharlotte
      @rosesweetcharlotte 4 роки тому +1

      @MrAsap2000as I actually think the movie suggests that all good and evil sort of comes from a similar place.

    • @shirouradman6550
      @shirouradman6550 4 роки тому +1

      @@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.

    • @connorhagerty537
      @connorhagerty537 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @japanorbust
    @japanorbust 3 роки тому +23

    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.

  • @veestallion420
    @veestallion420 4 роки тому +135

    Bruh tell me why I thought the title was “The Walking”

  • @ayuinu
    @ayuinu 4 роки тому +180

    This movie especially the old man’s true form haunted me for days after

    • @highdopamine29
      @highdopamine29 4 роки тому +2

      it felt like..i dnt wana watch the whole movie, but im interested but then watching it will hunt me for days...😭😭😭

    • @nightmare-nightmarenightma1147
      @nightmare-nightmarenightma1147 4 роки тому +9

      I saw it about 3 years ago but when he showed that scene in the cave....it still gave me fear goosebumps

    • @aaaiiimeel
      @aaaiiimeel 4 роки тому

      i wanna watch just to see the cave scene lol

    • @ineffablenefarious2799
      @ineffablenefarious2799 3 роки тому +1

      Fr, no devil reveal has scared me more than this one and exorcist.

    • @joekerr5418
      @joekerr5418 3 роки тому

      Really?

  • @gurusmurf5921
    @gurusmurf5921 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @haretasora7646
    @haretasora7646 4 роки тому +245

    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 :)

    • @johneithadunklin8835
      @johneithadunklin8835 4 роки тому +3

      Yes, I agree👍

    • @JSUTrumpet
      @JSUTrumpet 4 роки тому +14

      That movie was god awful!!! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @duskripper6650
      @duskripper6650 4 роки тому +8

      @@JSUTrumpet yeah it's generally considered to be.. Not very good 🤣 foundflix would make it entertaining regardless though

    • @haretasora7646
      @haretasora7646 4 роки тому +10

      Well I personally liked it. That's what I meant by 'good movie'

    • @ricojones856
      @ricojones856 4 роки тому +7

      I loved seeing jim Carrey not play a comedic role. And I loved the movie. I thought he crushed it !

  • @EpsilonXero
    @EpsilonXero 4 роки тому +130

    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.

    • @fufufu7034
      @fufufu7034 4 роки тому +14

      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.

  • @riggs20
    @riggs20 2 роки тому +13

    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?

    • @FAF345
      @FAF345 2 роки тому +16

      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.

    • @Itza-Me
      @Itza-Me 2 роки тому +1

      @@FAF345 I just rewatched that scene, you can't hear any stabbing

    • @jordkinsmith3588
      @jordkinsmith3588 Рік тому +9

      @@FAF345wrong, its like an alternate timeline thing. A schrodingers cat situation. It hadn’t happened until he made it happen

  • @carrotmania2628
    @carrotmania2628 4 роки тому +47

    I love this channel because he just tells us the entire movies in 20 minutes

    • @ethanbourgeois7989
      @ethanbourgeois7989 4 роки тому

      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

    • @sp8813
      @sp8813 4 роки тому

      AGREED!!!!And tells it SO WELL!

  • @piyoweb
    @piyoweb 4 роки тому +191

    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.

    • @lorandd.9126
      @lorandd.9126 4 роки тому +17

      btw that wasnt an alternate ending,it was a deleted scene from the beginning,but deleted later cause it gave too much away

    • @Darkgun231
      @Darkgun231 4 роки тому +15

      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.

    • @truclinhnguyen3201
      @truclinhnguyen3201 4 роки тому +13

      @@Darkgun231 I think it's because about 29% of Korean are Christian so no wonder they put biblical references in the film.

    • @danix4883
      @danix4883 Рік тому

      @@truclinhnguyen3201the director is actually also a Christian

  • @SlasherHell
    @SlasherHell 4 роки тому +254

    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).

    • @anuragchowdhury4101
      @anuragchowdhury4101 4 роки тому +13

      Incredible Observation.Feels like this was the comment I was searching for.

    • @jothishprabu8
      @jothishprabu8 4 роки тому +4

      Wht Old Religion?

    • @lutfianas90
      @lutfianas90 4 роки тому +1

      @@jothishprabu8 probably buddha

    • @samshM
      @samshM 4 роки тому +28

      Was the good woman practicing Christianity as well? I thought she was also using traditional rituals.

    • @Mongalingalong
      @Mongalingalong 4 роки тому +11

      @@lutfianas90 buddhism is not even in this film lmfao

  • @aleccross3535
    @aleccross3535 4 роки тому +81

    Oh look, a movie I have never seen and didn't even know existed.
    Guess I'll watch it through Foundflix 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @tserings2228
      @tserings2228 4 роки тому +4

      Alec Cross don’t, I highly recommend you watch this movie in its full. Easily one of the greatest horror films I’ve watched

  • @kylenielsen5083
    @kylenielsen5083 4 роки тому +105

    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.

    • @kousakahonoka1632
      @kousakahonoka1632 4 роки тому +7

      Yeah, pretty much.

    • @DeadlyDanDaMan
      @DeadlyDanDaMan 4 роки тому +19

      Most Koreans don't like Japan. Japan has invaded Korea multiple times in the past, not just in WW2.

    • @nevermore7285
      @nevermore7285 4 роки тому +8

      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.

    • @kevinb8755
      @kevinb8755 4 роки тому

      DeadlyDanDaMan not true

    • @rosesweetcharlotte
      @rosesweetcharlotte 4 роки тому +9

      @@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.

  • @disf5178
    @disf5178 4 роки тому +30

    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

    • @lonewolf9009
      @lonewolf9009 Рік тому

      Gwang was working along with the devil, and yes he was making it worse

    • @diversa23
      @diversa23 Рік тому +1

      @@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)

  • @Skylarkraven
    @Skylarkraven 4 роки тому +30

    I walked out of the cinema with my wife after watching Goksung... and we were silent for quite a while... when we finally talked about the movie... we did not have any idea what happened... had to look up online for any explanations and found one. Am glad to see here that the explanation was more or less the same :D

  • @avgkorean2970
    @avgkorean2970 4 роки тому +80

    Korea still makes the most scary intense horror flicks over the yeads

  • @GreatGreenGaming
    @GreatGreenGaming 3 місяці тому +2

    mate this wasn't an ending explained you just summarised the plot

  • @sharpiestains3942
    @sharpiestains3942 4 роки тому +81

    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.

    • @shrekpaidaisuki4912
      @shrekpaidaisuki4912 4 роки тому +3

      Literally saw an ad of that yesterday wtf

    • @ChaosCryptidd
      @ChaosCryptidd 4 роки тому +2

      The handmaid is soooo good

    • @qwerty1994ize
      @qwerty1994ize 4 роки тому +1

      @@shrekpaidaisuki4912 do you mean the handmaiden? If so then lol I also saw it yesterday. Really good movie.

  • @mrfudge2861
    @mrfudge2861 4 роки тому +70

    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*

    • @s1mplem4gic58
      @s1mplem4gic58 4 роки тому

      What community was that in?

    • @mrfudge2861
      @mrfudge2861 4 роки тому

      @@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.

    • @s1mplem4gic58
      @s1mplem4gic58 4 роки тому

      @@mrfudge2861 okay thanks

    • @BeckyEnchanted
      @BeckyEnchanted 4 роки тому +1

      @Mr Fudge his name is Chris, Jaime is his wife

  • @sting6650
    @sting6650 4 роки тому +15

    the women is wearing white, a sign of purity this also shows how she was the good one sad times...

  • @michaelpark672
    @michaelpark672 4 роки тому +102

    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

    • @87alsjth
      @87alsjth 4 роки тому +1

      Great movie! Watched it last year some time before Parasite.

    • @im19ice3
      @im19ice3 4 роки тому +2

      i've heard it called psychological horror

    • @andrewdickens7016
      @andrewdickens7016 4 роки тому +2

      Everybody has seen those films

    • @acelialeedy7923
      @acelialeedy7923 4 роки тому +5

      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!

    • @Mongalingalong
      @Mongalingalong 4 роки тому

      im pretty sure everyone knows oldboy, and once again whenever i mention this korean masterpiece i always say this: fuck the american remake

  • @Nedded
    @Nedded 4 роки тому +19

    I saw Ryan Hollinger's thoughts on the movie, but I was waiting for this full review!!

  • @xentoralovell4526
    @xentoralovell4526 3 роки тому +6

    06:47 "He gets agitated and tumbles down the hill" He got agitated because they were trying to force him to show them when he desperately showed and said that he didn't want to go. Not sure how South Korean laws are, but this man did *NOT* want to go at all. He was nice enough to cooperate when he suffered dramatically and went guide them there anyways, again when he didn't want to. When a sudden thunderstorm came, he thought that was his queue to leave and he no longer felt safe and Jong-gu was grabbing onto this man trying to force him to stay and show them as he consistently pulls away from them and by law, I don't think was professional or nessessary. Because of that, he was being so forceful the man lost his footing rolling down the hill hurting himself, and was struck by lighting. I blame Jong-gu for this because out of all the people he got involved with because of his mistakes, including his family; everyone was either harmed or killed.

    • @luv_bangtan_ot776
      @luv_bangtan_ot776 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, I agree, Jong-gu shouldn't have forced him knowing the kind of terrifying incident he's faced and that he still agreed to help them up till there

  • @flacohernandez4380
    @flacohernandez4380 4 роки тому +95

    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.

    • @archivez101
      @archivez101 4 роки тому +11

      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

    • @bluebabboon
      @bluebabboon 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @31webseries
    @31webseries 4 роки тому +18

    This is so one of my favorite horror movies I've watched pretty much anything youtube has on it because there's just so much going on. What I have learned from them -there's a layer of history between Koreans and Japanese that helps lead to the distrust. There's the battle between and blending of Shamanism and Christianity in the region and the movie with the main character committing each one of the seven deadly sins before the end and with the woman not throwing 'rocks' but throwing 'stones' showing from the beginning that she was the good one. An alternate ending shows the shaman giving the Japanese man a ride out of town and her stuck staring at the border, basically she is a land spirit and can't leave her area and so he goes on to do this again and again. He goes, starts a plague, the shaman comes in gets rich and "ends it". When the shaman changes from all white to all black during that one conversation it is a sign of that and all that puking was because he got too near the trap. Also apparently he doesn't lead a particularly shamanistic life and something was off about the ritual like it shouldn't involve killing. He was really just making sure the girl got possessed . The diaper thing is apparently an undergarment often worn by shamen, indicating the old man might have been one himself before and was possessed. Sometimes, he's not though. When he's praying and cleansing himself in the water and when he finds the body in the truck for example. The ritual he performs is actually trying to drive the demon out of himself and into the corpse of the dead guy thus freeing everyone, with the nice trick of two rituals going on at the same time making it look like they are in tandem but are actually dueling as he's trying to send the demon into the dead guy but neither one gets completed so demon stays, girl still possessed, dead guy half reanimated. More christian imagery at the end with the 'deny me before the cock crows three times' thing. And yeah, lots going on. But basically, girl good, old man and shaman bad, don't eat the mushrooms (they were poisonous), and have a little faith. ;)

  • @bawithang4340
    @bawithang4340 2 роки тому +2

    Everyone: Who’s the bad guy in the video
    This video: yes

  • @metaloverload7374
    @metaloverload7374 4 роки тому +18

    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.

  • @AliAngelpie
    @AliAngelpie 4 роки тому +27

    When I first saw this movie, it scared the living daylights out of me, but then I realized how good it was because it was so scary and epic

  • @funkdefy416
    @funkdefy416 Рік тому +2

    FYI, if you are looking for ending explained, fast forward to 21 minutes. The majority of this video is just recapping the whole movie.

  • @andykww
    @andykww 4 роки тому +23

    The Chaser is a great Korean thriller that you should do a FoundFlix for.

  • @brittanymckinney731
    @brittanymckinney731 4 роки тому +79

    Damn I really wanted to watch this ending explained but after that introduction Imma have to hit pause and go watch the movie 🎥🍿. Seems this one is to good for me to spoil it for myself😂 brb

    • @kichapi
      @kichapi 4 роки тому +8

      you did the right thing 😄

    • @Leoprincess3038
      @Leoprincess3038 3 роки тому +3

      I still watched and it didn't ruin the experience lol it was a really good movie

    • @ShrawanMagar
      @ShrawanMagar 3 роки тому +1

      That's what I did 😅

    • @naungthaw
      @naungthaw 3 роки тому

      how did it go? did you like it?

    • @maraj7752
      @maraj7752 3 роки тому

      I literally just did the same thing! I’m watching he movie right now after pressing pause on this vid 3 seconds in!

  • @Noxspecific7
    @Noxspecific7 4 роки тому +6

    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.

  • @johndavies2285
    @johndavies2285 4 роки тому +13

    This may be the most complicated summary I have ever heard.

  • @ricojones856
    @ricojones856 4 роки тому +5

    That dark souls “you died” had me cracking up. Wasn’t expecting that lol

  • @jaro551
    @jaro551 Рік тому +4

    The amount of incompetence and stupidity in this movie really bothers me.

  • @palmaceiamovie
    @palmaceiamovie 4 роки тому +29

    Memories of Murder by Director Bong Joon-ho would be a great ending explained! Anyone else?

    • @tierk4328
      @tierk4328 4 роки тому +3

      I love that movie. My favourite Bong Joon ho film

    • @palmaceiamovie
      @palmaceiamovie 4 роки тому +1

      @@tierk4328 Saw the trailer for it and looks incredible.

    • @archivez101
      @archivez101 4 роки тому

      No, because then people won’t watch it

  • @randyleigh
    @randyleigh 4 роки тому +9

    I'm surprised how many of us are here so early. I didn't even get a notification yet.

  • @Ctan618
    @Ctan618 Рік тому +3

    I was looking for an in-depth explanation of the ending and got a corny 20 minute summary of the whole movie's plot

  • @cossy5316
    @cossy5316 4 роки тому +22

    Is it just me or does anyone else get happy and excited and even relieved when he says "I love this movie, super scary with a great story" instead of "i wasn't a fan of this one"??

  • @jcrazyblue4u
    @jcrazyblue4u 4 роки тому +13

    You missed that there is an alternate ending / deleted ending which shows the shaman picked up the Japanese man along a highway(giving the solid connection that they are in cahoots). Also in this scene, you can see the Japanese man tempting the little girl into crossing a highway (which could cause her death ala pet cemetery style). I found this movie to be a slow burner with a good twist. Can you make an ending explained on NOROI the curse?

  • @Liffyflash
    @Liffyflash 4 роки тому +5

    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

  • @chessyburgerlover129
    @chessyburgerlover129 4 роки тому +10

    Yesss i was waiting for you to cover this movie. This movie has a lot of interpretation and i like to hear yours. This movie is really scary coz you really dont know who is the villain

  • @picklebobpie5314
    @picklebobpie5314 4 роки тому +50

    Anyone else watching this in the middle of the night cause, hey why not

    • @lorandd.9126
      @lorandd.9126 4 роки тому +4

      no,because no

    • @Piinkstar01
      @Piinkstar01 4 роки тому +1

      Me😭

    • @lorandd.9126
      @lorandd.9126 4 роки тому +2

      @Astranat i usually would agree,but with this movie i turned from testo-cles to noballs-cles

    • @sukiiriinaa
      @sukiiriinaa 4 роки тому

      @Astranat True. I watch horror movies at night. This is one that I've also watched at night. Of course ii get scared but ii low key like that feeling.

  • @rj20za
    @rj20za Рік тому +1

    4:55 There is a passage in the Bible "he who is without sin shall cast the first stone" The woman is throwing stones because she is an angel who is without sin, they were forshadowing.

  • @changowowowoezzy9617
    @changowowowoezzy9617 4 роки тому +11

    The wailing is literally my favorite horror movie of all time.

  • @KahenaRocha
    @KahenaRocha 4 роки тому +36

    Great I'm early for the first time ever!!

  • @op665
    @op665 3 роки тому +5

    This movie has so many twists and kept you interested for 3 friggen hours. Great movie

  • @Lossandthepanda
    @Lossandthepanda 4 роки тому +4

    I sat down in my chair and the thumbnail for this video spooked me

    • @DeborahWalkerXOXO
      @DeborahWalkerXOXO 4 роки тому +1

      I turned on the lights to watch this...
      Literally the only way I can watch horror movies

  • @chipsahoy2476
    @chipsahoy2476 4 роки тому +13

    13:51 “As you do”😂