Director : Jae hyun Jang
Star Cast : Choi Min-Sik, Kim Go-Eun, Yoo Hai-Jin and Lee Do-Hyun.
Overview : The process of excavating an ominous grave unleashes dreadful consequences buried underneath.
Storyline :The movie opens with two young shamans heading to LA for their latest job to with regards to some very rich Korean family living in L.A is having an inexplicable family problem which may be associated with some bad spirit, and Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun) soon come to the conclusion that their client and his family’s ongoing trouble is caused by the ghost of a great grand father , who has incidentally been buried in some remote rural spot in South Korea. All they will have to do next is digging up the grave of that dead family member in question, and they are going to hold a ritual for appeasing the ghost for the peace
For this grave-digging ritual, Hwa-rim recruits Sang-deok (Choi Min-sik), a well-experienced “geomancer” While initially he is skeptical about digging the grave but eventually agrees to it p
Of course, it does not take much time for Sang-deok and Hwa-rim to sense that something is not so right about that grave and its surrounding area. While it seems to be at a fairly good spot, it has several very suspicious signs including its rather odd tombstone, and, above all, the client and his family do not seem to tell everything about that dead family member from the beginning.
This makes their job feel much riskier than before, but Sang-deok and his colleagues begin to work on their grave-digging job mainly because they will get paid a lot for their service After the ritual the baby in question of the rich family is saved but that is not the end .
Around that narrative point, Jang’s screenplay takes an unexpected plot turn as its main characters belatedly discover that there was actually more than the coffin of that dead family member below the grave. They dig and carry the other cofin and on the way they its happen to spend a night at a small nearby temple along with their unexpected discovery, from thereon effectively disturbing sequence which eventually reveals an unspeakable secret hidden in their discovery , which leads to lots of horror sequences that forms the crux of the movie
Technical Review :. Technically the film is brilliant ,Without any huge frightening scenes, director Jang builds the tension using very detailed, very precise dramatization of the shamanistic rituals for cleansing spirits and for exhuming the buried dead to transfer to more auspicious grave sites. Those familiar with these rituals from watching Korean drama will know there’s a lot of music, chanting, and dancing and the film isn’t shy of showing the whole process and captures it for its full cinematic appeal.It is in the simplicity and the straightforward execution of the narrative that makes ‘Exhuma’ such a joy to watch
Final Words: Ex Huma is an intelligent horror film that takes its time to build its horror and dresses it up in the full effects of Korean shamanism. It’s culturally and historically rich and steeped in its folklore.
Ratings: 3.5*/5*
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