german premiere

the wailing

A video chat turns into a trauma for Andrea when a horrific crime is committed in front of her eyes. But no one believes her story of the sinister man she saw standing in the doorway. Searching for answers, Andrea follows a scarry wail to an abandoned house... Twenty years earlier, on the other side of the world, film student Camila secretly shoots snapshots of the fascinating Marie – until she notices a sinister figure in the background. And again a terrible wailing is to be heard, and leads for sure to perdition… It’s too late to escape anyway. 

Pedro Martín-Calero's feature film debut immediately gets under your skin and leaves you with that ice-cold feeling of hopeless menace with which J-horror à la THE RING or THE GRUDGE terrorized its then unprepared audience a few decades ago. The brute, effective sound design, combined with nervewrackingly schock moments makes THE WAILING a flagship of the next generation of Spanish horror.