Movies like The Wailing

“The Wailing (2016) is a 2010s South Korean folk-horror that stages a local contagion as both a narrative engine and a cultural symptom. It positions a policeman's search for a stranger-linked illness and his daughter's safety within a visual grammar of high-contrast chiaroscuro, muted palettes, and ritualized domestic interiors. The film argues that communal panic and private grief can conjoin into a ritualized paranoia that reframes contemporary Korean folk-horror.”