San Sebastian Horror Hit ‘The Wailing’ Warns Against Ignoring Victims: ‘This is Absolutely What Happens These Days’
variety.comJamie Lang Spain has a long and fruitful tradition of producing horror films that elevate the genre and become enduring classics domestically and abroad – think Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s “[Rec],” J.A.
Bayona’s “El Orphanage” or Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar nominee “Pan’s Labyrinth.” This year’s San Sebastian Film Festival is debuting a new candidate to join that prestigious list of modern classics, Pedro Martín-Calero‘s “The Wailing.” In the film, three young women separated by decades and thousands of miles are terrorized by the same ethereal threat that nobody, not even they, can properly see.
The entity manifests more like a trick of lighting than anything corporeal. In each case, when the women attempt to confront the presence, they hear the same horrific wailing.
During a mid-morning press conference ahead of the film’s Wednesday night world premiere in San Sebastian main competition, debut feature director Martín-Calero and his co-writer Isabel Peña (“The Beasts,” “The Candidate”), an extremely accomplished scribe who frequently works with Rodrigo Sorogoyen, were joined by cast members and producers to speak with the global press.
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