10 More Underrated Horror Movies You Need To Watch

5. The Wailing

The Autopsy Of Jane Doe 2016
20th Century Fox Korea

Na Hong-Jin's tale of a policeman desperate to save his daughter from a mysterious disease is a superb deviation into South Korean horror for those who perhaps haven't ventured far out of western cinema circles - a critical and commercial success that brings Hollywood to shame.

In typical fashion for asian cinema, it's gritty and visceral, championing uncomfortable imagery alongside a deeply disturbing tone, but will make you all the more invested in its story because of it.

A stranger comes to Jong-Goo's village, and with him, a killer illness. In turn, it forces those afflicted with it to murder in kind. An investigation seems to point to the occult, and with Jong-Goo's daughter's shoe found at the scene of an altar - he has to get to the bottom of what evil spirit could be working its forces throughout the local population before it's too late.

The Wailing seems an appropriate enough title, since it's exactly what you'll be doing by the end of it. Boom.

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