The Wailing (spanische, französische OmeU) // Fantasy Filmfest White Nights // Deutschlandpremiere

A video chat turns into a trauma for Andrea when a horrific act of bloodshed takes place in front of her eyes. But no one believes her story of the sinister man she saw standing in the doorway. In her search for answers, Andrea follows a gruesome 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 the plaintive call rings out, heralding impending doom. But it is long too late to escape.

Pedro Martín-Calero's feature film debut immediately gets under your skin and leaves you with that ice-cold feeling of hopeless threat with which J-horror à la THE RING or THE GRUDGE terrorized its unsuspecting audience a few decades ago. The brute, effective soundtrack, in combination with nerve-wrackingly delayed moments of shock, does the rest to make THE WAILING the flag bearer of the next generation of Spanish horror.