Atmospheric and inconclusive. But fun. Great music and cinematography, although sometimes too dark for a laptop to display properly.

I can blithely kick back and watch Kim Go Eun and Lee Do Hyun drum, dance and chant while everything burns down around them, but that anima-spirit they fought was really disturbing. Horse blood and wood against the burning god of war. Wasnt sure it would work at all.

I think it is the strength of the back bench of korean acting talent that makes a film like this work well. Sang Deok and Young Geun, the members of the cursed family, and even the monk who we only see twice are all vital to the story and equally powerfully portrayed.

I wish that all that supernatural hullabaloo had protected Korea 'forever', or had epically pretended to flush out all the bad memories of the 20C, but the film, like reality, didnt promise that in the end. It was just business, just a job, and the team's everyday fried chicken dinnertime swallows up the horrors.