#mystery #horror #exorcism #Jang Jae-hyun #Kim Yun-seok #Gang Dong-won #Park So-dam #2015 #recorded in January, 2022

A young girl who belongs to Father Kim’s parish becomes comatose after a hit-and-run accident. Father Kim finds out she is possessed by an evil spirit. He along with a rebellious young seminarian named Choi try to exorcise the demon and confine it in a piglet.

The Priests is known to be the first-ever-commercial film in Korea to center on exorcism. Exorcism has long been a nonexistent theme in the Korean film scene. While the popularity of the horror genre itself is at stake in Korea, no brave filmmakers have dared to attempt the occult genre, which has long been the territory of Hollywood productions.

Director Jang Jae-hyun cleverly builds up suspense while mixing it up with mystery and a message about religion in Svaha: The Sixth Finger. It does have some solid moments and asks intriguing questions, so I won’t say it would be a waste of time to check it out.