Exhuma

A wealthy Korean-American family is plagued by a haunting that a young shaman traces to an ancestor's grave in a remote, inauspicious spot. A team is assembled to move it. They should not have opened it.

Jang Jae-hyun made the highest-grossing Korean film of its year, and it is a rare thing: a serious, procedural occult horror grounded in real Korean geomancy, feng shui and shamanic practice, that then pivots in its second half into something larger and stranger involving the country's colonial history.

Choi Min-sik, of Oldboy, plays the elderly geomancer, and the ritual sequences are performed with real specificity.

The film's turn, from a family curse into a buried piece of national trauma, is bold and divides people on whether the two halves cohere.

It is the biggest horror film Korea has produced and a genuine cultural event there.