The Medium (2021)

Original title

ร่างทรง

Directed by

Banjong Pisanthanakun

Genre

horror film

Country

South Korea, Thailand

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

+16

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 753 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary crew follows a family in rural Thailand whose daughter begins acting strangely. They believe she has become possessed by a local spirit known as the goddess Bayan.

unsettlingatmosphericslow-burnbleakvisually grittyfolk horrortensesupernatural

What happens

The Medium (Thai: ร่างทรง Rang Song, literally: Mediumship) is a 2021 Isan-language pseudo-documentary supernatural folk horror film co-written and produced by Na Hong-jin and directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun. It is a co-production of Thailand's GDH 559 and South Korea's Showbox. The film premiered at the 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival on 11 July 2021. It was theatrically released in South Korea on 14 July 2021. It was selected as the Thai entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards but was not nominated. The film was judged the best feature film at the 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and was awarded the Bucheon Choice Award for the best film. On the box office front as per Korean Film Council data, it is ranked 15th among all the films released in the year 2021 in South Korea, with gross of US$7.35 million and 831,126 admissions, as of 26 September 2021. It is the 6th highest-grossing Korean film of 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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