The Chaser: The Serial-Killer Thriller That Sprints

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Most serial-killer films are patient. They dole out the body count, tease the identity, and save the confrontation for the last reel. Na Hong-jin’s 2008 debut The Chaser does something almost reckless: it catches the killer at the halfway mark, tells you who he is, and then discovers it has a much worse story on its hands. What do you do when you have the monster in a cell and no evidence to hold him, and a victim who might still be alive somewhere in the dark? The film’s answer is to run — literally, up and down the steep alleys of a Seoul hillside — until your own legs ache.

The Wailing: Na Hong-jin's Rain-Soaked Descent

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:00:00 +0000

The Wailing is a horror film about a man trying to work out what kind of horror film he is in, and failing, at a cost. Na Hong-jin’s 2016 epic — titled Gokseong after the real South Jeolla county where it was shot — runs a punishing 156 minutes and spends nearly every one of them keeping its footing on wet ground. It is a rural procedural, a possession picture, a plague story, a black comedy, and a folk nightmare, and it changes its mind about which of these it is exactly as often as its hero does. The genius is that the shifting is the subject.

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The Chaser: The Serial-Killer Thriller That Sprints

The Wailing: Na Hong-jin's Rain-Soaked Descent