Exhuma (2024)

IMDb plot summary: The process of excavating an ominous grave unleashes dreadful consequences buried underneath.

Directed by Jang Jae-hyun. Stars Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, and Yoo Hae-jin.

Exhuma is a South Korean horror film about a group of shamans who are investigating one particular family and their sketchy burial practices, which have now apparently come back to literally haunt them. This is a fun concept, and there are a few cool, spooky possession scenes that I do remember that stand out from the film, but a lot of it is just slow. The filmic choices showing the possessions are easily the most interesting part of the film, which felt overall very long at two hours and 14 minutes. The rest of the plot doesn't match the energy and the vibrance of those possession scenes, and so I found myself kind of tuning out whenever there wasn't something big and dramatic happening. I do wonder if there were some cultural differences that made this harder for me to process, which is obviously not the fault of the film. Overall, this one didn't quite do it for me.

How it entered my Flickchart:

🎥 Exhuma (2024)

📊 Ranked #2055/4187 on my Flickchart

🎯 Flickscore™: 51

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