The Wailing Page #5

Synopsis: In the small village Goksung in South Korea, police officer Jong-Goo investigates bizarre murders caused by a mysterious disease. His partner tells a gossip for him that a Japanese stranger that lives in a secluded house in the mountains would be an evil spirit responsible for the illness. Jong-Goo decides to visit the Japanese with his partner and a young priest that speaks Japanese. They find an altar with a goat head and pictures of the infected people that died on the walls. However they are attacked by the guard dog and they only can leave the place when the stranger arrives. Jong-Goo finds one shoe of his beloved daughter Hyo-jin in the house of the stranger and soon she becomes sick. His mother-in-law summons the shaman Il-gwang to save her granddaughter while a mysterious woman tells Jong-Goo that the stranger is the responsible. Who might be the demon that is bringing sickness to Goksung?
Genre: Horror
Director(s): Hong-jin Na
  29 wins & 51 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
99%
NOT RATED
Year:
2016
156 min
$785,405
2,480 Views


She's the owner of the house.

It looks like he's on some drugs.

It's got everyone all worked up.

They're going to take him away.

He needs a lawyer,

get everything prepared.

I guess you could say...

Samchon is the victim...

What is this..?

Sh*t!

What is your business here..?

Go!

(Missed calls. Il Gwang.)

Buddha! Protect me!

Protect me!

Give me protection, give me protection!

Protection, Buddha give me protection!

What is this?!

What!

(Gokseong.)

It's me, Il Gwang.

Where are you?

Where are you right now?

Don't ask me any questions,

just go straight home to your daughter.

Right now!

Just tell me now,

right now I'm

at your house.

You..

I'm telling you to go straight home!

Enough already,

just tell me what you're going to tell me.

I...

I made a mistake...

All of it...

It's the wrong person.

What are you talking about..?

I just came by your house a moment ago

and there was a woman there...

I...

I made a big mistake!

It's not the Japanese guy,

the woman is the ghost!

She's causing all of this!

So you need to get home right now!

I'm also on my way there.

Then...

What about the Japanese guy..?

He was trying to catch her and kill her,

trying to save all the people that b*tch was killing.

That Japanese man,

is like me, a shaman!

Tell me,

was that woman wearing white..?

Yes.

So you've seen her...

She's a young girl right..?

That's right.

(Praying.)

Where's my daughter?

Where is Hyo Jin!

Hyo Jin!

What the..?

Where are you going in the middle of the night..?

Where are you going right now..?

Where is my daughter?

Where is my daughter?

About this tall..?

Hyo Jin..?

It's because that ghost seduced her...

Halmeoni said that weh-nom is a ghost,

he abused her...

Stop with the bullshit!

Tell me you b*tch!

Where is Hyo Jin?

That weh-nom is --

I ASKED YOU WHERE SHE IS!

Your child is at your house.

Where else...

She's not home.

She's there.

I just saw her...

Don't go home...

If you go home everyone will die.

If you go home now

everyone in your family will die!

What are you saying..?

That weh-nom is waiting for you to come home.

Using your family as bait.

He died already...

He's not dead.

He's not something that dies.

Very soon now,

a ghost will enter your house...

You saw the ghost I'm talking about right?

Didn't you see it behind that woman's house..?

It was a dream...

Not a dream.

I set a trap for him...

Just wait until he's caught.

That's all you have to do...

You...

What are you?

A person or a ghost..?

Why do you ask?

I have to know.

If I'm going to trust you...

Just believe it.

If you want to save your family.

WHAT ARE YOU!

A person who is trying to save your daughter...

Just some...

Woman...

I called Mi Sook,

she didn't come by there.

Hyo Jin! Hyo Jin!

What the...

When is that ghost coming?

He's already there...

Hyo Jin...

He's already there..?

I want to ask you something...

What...

Are you..?

What do you think..?

Devil.

You are the devil.

(Akuma:
Devil, fire demon.)

Aren't you going to say anything..?

I don't know what to say,

you just told me I'm the devil...

(Il Gwang.)

I'm getting close,

Where are you?

You're at home right..?

I'm with her...

Do not... DO NOT!

Listen to anything she tells you!

No matter what she says,

you have to go home to your daughter right now.

Do you understand me..?

Do you understand!

Is it that monk?

You can't trust him.

He's just a pawn.

Is that so..?

So you think I am the devil now...

And that is why you came here

carrying that...

It doesn't matter what I say,

I'm just a stranger here and people can't accept me.

Things will never change...

No,

that's not what this is...

That's what you say but we both know it's true,

you've come here to kill me and

you're calling me the devil, isn't that --

Enough!

If...

If you're not devil then

just tell me who you are.

Tell me that

and I'll go without doing anything to you...

When the ghost is caught in the trap

the rooster will crow 3 times.

Just be patient until then.

So you won't do anything to me

and you'll just... Go?

That's right.

You have 2 left.

Don't waver.

You'll go without doing anything..?

That's right,

I'll go without doing anything...

Who says I'm going to let you go..?

Then...

I just want to know one thing...

What?

All of this,

why?

Why is all of this happening?!

The father of the daughter has sinned...

What?

What sin did I commit..?

The father of the daughter has plotted against others,

he has even tried to kill.

And he has killed...

It's because...

My daughter...

My daughter! My Daughter!

It was because she got so sick!

What was I supposed to do?!

What am I supposed to..?

Now, 1 left.

What was I supposed to...

Don't go...

What do you mean..?

What you perceive to be that is flesh and bone,

go ahead, touch it!

A ghost cannot be flesh or bone,

but as you can clearly see...

This one is!

No. It's not...

It's you...

No.

Is it really you doing all this?!

Don't go!

Hyo Jin...

Don't go...

Hyo Jin!

DON'T GO!

What are you doing..?

What are you..?

Why would you be afraid..?

Hyo Jin!

Yeobo!

Eomoni...

Look at me! Look at me!

Look at me!

Don't go! Don't go! Don't go!

HYO JIN!

Hyo Jin!

Hyo Jin!

Hyo Jin!

Hyo Jin!

Hyo Jin!

Why is there still doubt in your heart..?

As you see my hands, my feet...

Do you see..?

What I am!

Hyo Jin...

It's okay...

My Hyo jin...

You know appa is a cop, right?

Appa will figure it all out...

Appa will...

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