Director: Jang Jae-hyun
Exhuma is a 2024 South Korean supernatural thriller directed by Jang Jae-hyun, following a shaman, a geomancer, and a funeral director hired to move a cursed ancestral grave. Starring Choi Min-sik and Kim Go-eun, it streams with Persian dubbing on K-Time.
What is Exhuma about?
A shaman and a geomancer are hired by a wealthy Korean-American family whose newborn son has fallen ill with a condition that seems to pass down the family line rather than through any illness a doctor can name. Tracing the sickness back to a remote mountainside plot that local farmers have refused to farm for generations, the team assembles a crew to relocate the grave properly. Once the coffin comes up, though, the job stops being about ritual correctness and becomes something closer to containment, as old wartime history and something buried alongside the body start to surface. The film moves at a procedural pace before tipping into full folk-horror territory in its second half.
Cast & crew
Choi Min-sik, long recognized for morally complicated leading roles, plays the senior geomancer opposite Kim Go-eun as the shaman whose rituals drive much of the film's tension. Yoo Hai-jin and Lee Do-hyun round out the four-person crew as the funeral director and junior shaman. Director Jang Jae-hyun, who has built a career on Korean shamanic horror, keeps the camera close to procedure and ceremony rather than leaning on jump scares.
Context & significance
Exhuma became one of the highest-grossing Korean releases of 2024 by grounding its horror in geomancy, shamanic ritual, and a buried colonial-era history that Korean audiences recognize instantly and diaspora viewers can pick up quickly from context. Its themes of ancestral obligation and consequences that skip generations travel well beyond Korea, which is part of why it found an audience among Persian-speaking viewers who gravitate toward horror rooted in family duty rather than isolated slasher setups.
Where & how to watch
Exhuma streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so the ritual sequences and dialogue-heavy investigation scenes play in Farsi without any subtitle-reading required. Watching it needs a free K-Time account login; from there it is available on phone, tablet, TV, and browser with a Farsi-language interface, with no VPN or geo-blocking to work around and the freedom to pause or stop whenever you like.