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Join me in raising a glass to Quibi, the bite-sized video service that everyone in the earth knew would fail except the leadership at Quibi. From launch to close down in six months — that's truly remarkable.

Although it'due south funny to meet this thought blow up so robustly in the faces of Jeffrey Katzenberg and 1000000 Whitman, information technology sucks for those lower on the ladder. They worked difficult to produce shows they knew no one would watch, and now they're out of their jobs. I'chiliad sure there was proficient stuff on the service! Simply I was never, always going to spotter it.

In meliorate news, after concluding week's small-scale respite, our selections for this week go back to the Cringe Blog themes yous know and love/hate.

"The Wailing" (2016)

Prime Video, rated R, 156 minutes

Jun Kunimura in "The Wailing." Photo source: Prime Video.

There's a new rule that I desire to implement, and the rule is that every movie must incorporate dueling religious rituals gear up to increasingly loud and frenetic music.

"The Wailing" taught me this. "The Wailing" also taught me — reminded me, to be more authentic — that South Korea makes meliorate horror films than anyone else. Those filmmakers understand the importance of feeling, of atmosphere, is much greater than that of bound scares.

Here we take Jong-Goo (Kwak Exercise-won), a detective who is not quite bumbling but certainly not aristocracy at his job. He messes up sometimes, which isn't unremarkably a huge deal in his modest village; nothing much happens there. Until stuff starts happening there. Brutal killings, a cord of them, each by a different person. The perpetrators are connected by the brutal rash they share, pus prominently presented. This rash/curse remains, draining them of their mental capacities, until they eventually dice.

Signs brainstorm to signal to a secretive Japanese man (Jun Kunimura) as the ane putting a curse on these people. Some even refer to him as a ghost, fifty-fifty though he's visibly mankind and blood. There are stories of him eating the raw meet of a deer carcass on all fours deep in the wood, his eyes glowing cherry-red. When Jong-Goo has a dream that matches these stories, information technology's enough to leap him into activeness. He and his partner (Son Kang-gook) pay him a visit.

What they find chills them, but it's not plenty to make an arrest. And things become from bad to worse when Jong-Goo returns home to find his adolescent daughter (Kim Hwan-hee) starting to develop the murderous rash.

Kim Hwan-hee and Kwak Practice-won in "The Wailing." Photo source: Prime Video.

"The Wailing" is frightening in all the correct ways. Director Na Hong-jin keeps the movie'due south mysteries locked abroad for much of the run time, keeping the audience guessing every bit to what's actually happening. The surface level story is dark, and the implied story might exist even darker once you connect a few dots and think near how these people are getting sick. Just the film won't exercise that for you; "The Wailing" is a circuitous story, and if yous want to solve it all, you might take to watch it twice (at least). It touches on a lot of things, master among them what it ways to believe in something. Is sight and touch on enough? Or can our optics and hands exist deceived? How do we ever know who to trust?

It too tries to be a lot of horror genres at in one case. There are scenes that pay homage to possession films, zombie films, cult films and serial killer films. Somehow, it all works, mayhap because the whole narrative is fractured from the starting time. If a film is consistently messy, information technology is really messy at all? Or is that part of the appeal?

Complication aside, the film does come to a conclusive catastrophe, and it'due south a knockout. Not one that volition make sleeping piece of cake, heed you. I don't desire whatever complaints if this keeps y'all up at nighttime. Simply it's a cracking one still, paving a hereafter for certain characters without needing a sequel to run across their stories through. You already know what lies in wait for them, for improve or worse.

And again, before I motion on: I really must insist that all movies feature dueling rituals. I cannot stress enough how compelling that scene is. Lookout information technology and thank me afterwards.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015)

Google Play, rated R, 121 minutes

Tom Hardy in "Mad Max: Fury Road."

Ryan, why are you putting a straight-up action movie in Blench Blog? Oasis't you strayed from the theme plenty this year? I mean, last week's installment had two movies that barely qualified nether whatever metric. Where's "The Haunting of Bly Manor?" Where's "Rebecca?" Where's the HORROR?!?

Proficient questions, Ryan. First of all, shut up. 2d of all, my blog, my rules. Third of all, one of those might be coming side by side week. Fourth of all, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the ultimate Halloween motion picture. Or information technology should be, anyway. Actually, we should be talking about the phenomenon that is this flick every mean solar day for the remainder of time. But let's focus on the Halloween of it all for now. Is it set in the fall? Tough to tell when it'due south set in the apocalyptic Australian outback. A strike against information technology? Possibly, but mind to my other points showtime:

• Put all of the characters in this pic, large and pocket-size roles alike, into a lid. Pick ane. Boom, that's your Halloween costume. A keen selection. You seriously cannot go wrong. Await at this guy. Look at this person. Look AT THE DOOF WARRIOR. There has never been a cooler minor grapheme in any movie than the Doof Warrior, the leader of the War Boys' traveling battle band who signals his army's arrival by absolutely shredding on an electrical guitar (that shoots flames) while strapped to bungee cords on a big-ass truck.
• Furiosa (Charlize Theron). That's it, that's the bullet bespeak.
• The opening scene, where Max (Tom Hardy) tries to escape from the War Boys while being haunted past visions of his past failures, is incredibly scary, fifty-fifty more and then because director George Miller, an actual insane person, made the decision to speed upwardly the footage to the point where the human eye tinmerely barelycomprehend what it is seeing. The result is an almost 3D-similar effect, or similar yous're at a haunted house with never-ending strobe lights. The first time I watched it, I wondered if my brain was breaking. Now I recall it'south brilliant. At that place are other frightening things in this movie, such as the quick shot of the crow fishers in the swamp, but zippo beats the opening scene.
• For someone who doesn't get that much to do, Immortan Joe is an all-time peachy villain, more often than not considering his name is Immortan Joe and he looks like this. (Costumes!) Miller makes him terrifying through other people's reactions to him as much equally his own actions. When he runs, he looks like an adult version of a "Power Rangers" villain and it rules.

Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Route."

• Furiosa!
• It is genuinely incredible to me that no died while making this movie. The unabridged movie, more or less, is a massive car hunt involving fire and big rigs and off-road cars and leaping motorcycles and many, many pole stunts. Tom Hardy spends 45 or and then minutes literally strapped to the front of a automobile going 140 mph like the figurehead on the bow of a ship. If yous take a half hour, I highly recommend this behind-the-scenes look at the moving-picture show and how it pulled off a lot of these stunts. It's worth information technology to hear how genuine the terror in Hardy's voice is when talking about information technology all.
• At 1 bespeak, a graphic symbol says "Witness me, bloodbag," a seemingly incoherent trio of words to anyone who has not watched the film, merely in actuality a powerful and emotional trio of words. That'due south what good movies exercise: create a world from scratch, teach you it's rules and culture then brand you intendance about those things.
• A dude gets his face up ripped off, which is pretty sick.
• FURIOSA!!!!!!!
• "Fury Road" manages to simultaneously be a "women get revenge on their abusers and take control of their lives" moving-picture show and be a "dudes rock" moving picture, which is an unheard of feat. It should take won Best Picture for that lone. (Thanks, "Spotlight," a movie merely journalists remember exists now.)

I experience like I have made my example for "Fury Road," the best action movie of at to the lowest degree the past 20 years if not longer. If, yet, you still have some complaints, please feel free to electronic mail them to [e-mail protected].

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