The Wailing

• Pedro Martín-Calero
• 107 min
• Spain, France, Argentina
• 2024
• Fiction

Andrea is haunted by a mysterious older man who inexplicably appears in her FaceTime calls, in debut director Pedro Martín-Calero’s devastating horror epic that stretches across continents and generations.

Across different eras, in Madrid, La Plata, and Brussels, several women are bound together by a gnawing sense of being watched. What begins as an unsettling shadow in student Andrea’s video calls escalates into a terrifying, increasingly tangible threat—one that seems visible only through the lens of a camera.

With some of the year’s most haunting horror imagery, Martín-Calero delivers an iconic masterwork of terror, exploring generational patriarchal violence and voyeuristic oppression. Balancing the relentless teenage dread of It Follows with the visceral visual rawness of Thai horror classic Shutter, this is a chilling debut destined to leave an indelible mark.

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• Skräck
• Uppväxt
• Åldrande
• Sexualitet
• Identitet
• Försoning
• Debut