Try the ghost school films from the late 1990s for atmosphere, then some of the recent occult films. You will see the shaman tradition come back again and again in new shapes.

Because everyone is still arguing about who to trust! Ten years later my friends still fight about it at dinner.

I want a thread for shaman films. $WAIL is the obvious reference, but I mean the whole tradition: the gut ritual on screen, the drums, the colors, the feeling that the ceremony itself is a battle. What I appreciate is that the best ones tre…

Both would be perfect. Pacific in small text, local in big text, and I will never complain again. Probably.

Same for Korean. One wish: show the original title next to the translated one on the International page. Many films have a very different local name.

The Host when I am sick. A family drama that happens to have a creature in it. Makes me want to call my family.

In Korea we had our own long hair era around the same time. I think the image traveled so well because it is so simple. White dress, dark hair, a face you cannot see. Your brain does the rest.