 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review This is for the 2018 film that is just being seen in the United States for the first time in 2019 via shutter. It is a shutter original. It is called the Wrath and Big shout out and a big thank you to shutter for allowing me early access to this film So that I could do this review before it even hit the shutter streaming service So it is available on shutter September 5th I do believe and my review should be up on the 3rd So yeah, hopefully everyone enjoys and once again, thank you very much shutter So let's get into this. Like I said 2018 film now This is actually a remake of a film from 1986 called Woman's Whale. Sorry. I'm looking at my notes as I usually do Yeah, 1986 film called Woman's Whale now. I have not seen the original film It would be very interesting if I already had but I kind of just wanted to go into it as You know, I could have gone and tried to try to see the move the other movie the original movie But I was also kind of like, you know, a lot of these people who are gonna end up seeing it Are probably just seeing this for the first time and probably have not seen Woman's Whale So I'm just gonna go in blind basically So that's what I did. I may check out Woman's Whale now because I did see when I was googling for my research that There were some people who were like, oh, we feel like this is vastly inferior to Woman's Whale So I don't have that comparison to make. I just watched the wrath So I will just be talking about that the film is by director Yongsun Yu and Yeah, I don't I wasn't I'm not familiar with anything else that Yongsun Yu has done I do watch Asian film. I watched Japanese film Chinese film Korean film And this is a South Korean film and the original Woman's Whale was also a South Korean film So I do watch those types films I don't watch a ton, but it's kind of like a here-and-there type thing The other thing to point out is I'm also not huge into J horror and this film is very J horror-esque So honestly, if you're into J horror, I would definitely recommend you check this movie out is gonna be really up your alley If you're not into J horror, they're like me There actually is some stuff in here for you as well And I'll kind of get into that as I keep going with this review So this film Oh and and disclaimer for people have not seen my review videos before I Kind of go through my notes as I was watching the film as things occur to me So it's kind of chronological even though it's no spoilers But it's one of those situations where you can watch this review before seeing the movie and or after seeing the movie And it'll be a good review and it will be meaningful to you in both ways So I would recommend actually doing it before and after Not just for me, but you know So waste no time getting into things with this. It really sets up the horror super Immediately, which is a great way to kind of grab audience attention get people very engaged and be like, okay I'm interested go on. What are we doing here interesting? So it really hit hard with that and I really really like when films do that instead of kind of like Making you wait from the get-go and kind of being like, okay We got to have some sort of like backstory and build up and there's a way to do the backstory and lay the story out After grabbing someone's attention first and that's what this film does and I appreciate when those things are done One of the other things that hit me immediately with this film is it looks Really good. It is so crisp looking it the camera shots are awesome The directing is really good. The cinematography is wonderful. This film is aesthetically Extremely pleasing it looks outstanding now This is where I'm gonna say if you're not huge into j-horror You may actually still want to check this movie out because of how good it looks I was just I don't want to say I was shocked But I was just very like surprised that I was that it looked as amazing as it did I mean, I see I've seen plenty of horror films that look really good But I don't go into every horror film assuming that it's gonna look good because a lot of them just look like Oh, they look fine or they look okay, but this one struck me as looking particularly awesome So I really like the aesthetics of this film So that speaks to like I said the the camera operator the cinematographer the director really really good I like the setting of this because it kind of plays into I like horror films that have kind of lesser used settings and this is kind of a Okay, so to people who wouldn't do the research it kind of seems like a feudal Japan type thing But it's actually kind of like a feudal Korea type thing. I wrote down specifically what it's supposed to be from It's supposed to be from the Joseon Josie joseon. I'm sorry. I'll just spell it j-o-s e-o-n dynasty Which was actually the final dynasty in Korea before dynasties weren't a thing anymore. Apparently it was very Confucian Driven and it was the it was the fine since it was the final dynasty it was kind of The one that impacted current Koreans South Korean society the most and so there are a lot of remnants from it societaly and and They even said like problems that ever risen from from that That form of government that dynasty so yeah, like many aspects of it echo in current Korean society and culture Okay, so that oh, and I'll go back a second. Sorry a little scattered on that I love when there are lesser known settings for horror because a lot of horror is kind of like contemporary modern or They kind of mind the same types of things like you know There are films even now going coming out that are just like let's mind the slasher thing the new American horror story is gonna be a slasher thing so It's nice when it's a little more original and I kind of felt like it's a little more original Which is kind of weird for me to say since it is a remake but For what's been coming out. It's it seems more original to me and I appreciate that I like that type of setting The jump scares are pretty good in this to be honest If if you're a person who's not big on jump scares you kind of start to roll your eyes when there are a bunch of jump scares You might not like that in this film. I thought the jump scares when they were in there were effective I thought they looked really good and pretty creative to be honest But then like I said, I don't watch a lot of J horror So I don't know maybe for people who have watched a lot of J horror They'd see it They'd see these jump scares and be like oh looks kind of similar to this or that but from my perspective It seemed pretty fresh interesting and they looked really good I don't think you can deny that part though that it looked really good. Everything looked great So like I said, yeah for J horror fans, I really think you should check this out for sure But if you don't like it, you know, the jump scares might be a little much and you know, I don't know So it doesn't go very long throughout the film. You don't have long stints where there's no horror going on I think there's a really awesome Balanced mix of you know developing some story things are a little bit calm and then horrific things then the evils here And I felt like the engagement with the evil throughout the story was Consistent it was well-paced It felt good I will say that the overall the film actually felt like maybe it was a little bit too long for what the story is But at the same time like I was saying how awesome it looks how like crisp and amazing The film aesthetically overall is that really helped out with Kind of making the length of it not that much of a problem Actually, it kind of like negated that issue in my opinion because it's just so pleasing to look at you Don't mind it that it's going on longer than it seems like the story would allow. So You know small Small issue there, but also kind of it takes care of itself in a sense The one thing I wrote down in here while I was watching I was like man the evil in this is super pissed Like they go it's it's not just one of these things where it's like. Oh, maybe this evilness is understood misunderstood Or maybe or maybe we're we're not reading the situation, right? It's just like this evil is like it's pissed It's it's out for killing vengeance. It is all about it But speaking to that the actual backstory which a lot with a lot of these j-horror type films there's always a backstory for how the evil became evil and I kind of think that the backstory for that is I Mean it's not bad. It's just kind of okay. It's not anything super original It's kind of well-trodden material for those types of backstories. So It was it was fine, but I was hoping for more than fine on that front, but it was fine So once again, this is where the the aesthetics really helped out and kind of negated some of that Some of the dialogue is a little bit weird. So I don't know. I mean obviously I don't know Korean so I don't know if it was the actual dialogue that was a little bit off or it's just the subtitle translations So at least the subtitle translations I was seeing some of the dialogue seemed a little weird It seemed a little like people wouldn't really interact that way, but it wasn't super Prevalent it was just like a kind of here and there thing and and a line of dialogue here and there would strike you like That's a little weird. I don't know So I like I said, I don't know was it the actual script or what is it the translation? I don't know the story itself It's not heavy on this, but it has a little bit of like a Cinderella feel to it Which I just kept my kept it kept popping into my head as the film was going on And if you've seen this you know what I'm talking about if you do see it You'll you will know what I'm talking about. This is a little bit of like a Cinderella to it. So Um, so there's an issue In this in my opinion with keeping it kind of realistic in a few aspects It's it's two things I'm going to talk about right now. One thing is The victims in this people who get it from the evil Uh, it kind of seems like a lot of the times they're just kind of Waiting for it You know like you get into the situation where they should probably be fighting back or probably be running And they just stand there and take it and it's just like oh, this is where I'm supposed to die It's kind of like the star trek red shirts thing that everyone talks about where it's just like oh that person's a red shirt They're just gonna die might as well just lay down and take it like that's how the characters are in this It's like they accept it. They're just like, oh, um, yeah It's about time and I'm supposed to die although they didn't watch is in it because of the time period But but you know what I'm saying like they're just like it's time for me to die I'll just stand here and and accept my fate. So that feels a little weird that's off And I don't think that should have been in the film I think it should have been a little more realistic with people like running for their lives trying to fight stuff like that You get that a little bit with some characters, but um, you can just tell the characters that that they were just like We need bodies to to get killed so There we go. Just stand there and die So I didn't really like that. Uh, the other issue was there's a there's a point Where it kind of takes you out of the time period, uh in the feel of the film where they switched to a like night vision camera Because it is totally dark and like I get it from the aspect of what's going on in the story But the problem is using that more modern um film effect Takes you out of that time period that you're supposed to be feeling for the story And so it just didn't work. It's very jarring when it happens because it makes you feel weird because you're just like Oh, this doesn't feel like it goes at all So they definitely should have gone without that they easily Could have gone without that because it doesn't super matter to the story They could have found a way around it easily very easily It was just kind of a bad choice But you know, there are a lot of good choices in this film. So, you know, just one of those things um Oh, yeah, and then the last thing I'd had in here. I already kind of touched on which is it is a little bit too long It's I think it's like an hour and a half And I just don't think the story needed an hour and a half But like I said aesthetically it looks super good So It's just pleasing to look at to be honest. So there you go. So that's my review on it. No spoilers really Uh, I would be interested to know what everyone thinks about it if you When you see it well when this review comes out No one will have seen it really because this is before it's available on shutter But as soon as it is available on shutter go ahead check it out and then put the comment down here Of what did you think, you know, did you do agree with me? Do you disagree with me? Tell me why and let's get a conversation going. So I'm going to give it my star rating and out of five stars With half stars in play. I'm going to give it a three. I think It's worth seeing. Um, mainly because of the aesthetic the aesthetics. Like I said, it looks really good I can't think of movies. I've watched recently except like mid-summer And that's an in the theater film that looked As good or better than this film. So It looks outstanding and I think at least for that you should see it But like I said, if you're a j-horror fan, I would definitely recommend seeing it or if you know, you're just j-horror curious You should check it out in my opinion It does now make me want to see woman's wail to be able to make a comparison Between the two films and see if what I found on through google is accurate where people are like Oh, it's not as good as the original but people, you know, like people always say that type of stuff. That's common So anyway, three stars pretty good Um, thank you again shutter very much. 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