Director: Pedro Martín Calero
A shared apartment, a strange presence that only shows up on camera, and a group of friends who can't agree on what they're seeing — that's the unsettling starting point of The Wailing, a 2024 horror drama from director Pedro Martín Calero.
What is The Wailing about?
The trouble starts small: a flicker in a video call, a shape that shouldn't be there, dismissed at first as a glitch or a prank. But the young people at the center of the story keep noticing the same wrongness following them from screen to screen, city to city, until it stops feeling like coincidence. What they've stirred up doesn't announce itself with violence right away; it lingers at the edge of frame, patient and almost invisible, feeding on attention rather than fear alone. As the group tries to piece together what they've actually unleashed, the film builds dread less through jump scares than through the creeping sense that something has already gotten in.
Cast & crew
Ester Expósito and Mathilde Ollivier lead an ensemble that also includes Malena Villa, José Luis Ferrer, Claudia Roset, Lía Lois, Sonia Almarcha, and Tomás del Estal, playing a circle of friends whose panic escalates in believable, uneven bursts rather than uniform terror.
Context & significance
A co-production between Argentina, France, and Spain, The Wailing runs 107 minutes and sits in the Drama and Horror categories, holding a 6.0 rating on IMDb at the time of listing. The multi-country backing shows in a visual style that leans European arthouse horror rather than jump-scare spectacle, closer in mood to slow-burn festival fare than mainstream franchise horror. That patience is deliberate: the film trusts silence and framing to do the unsettling work, letting the audience's imagination fill in whatever the camera withholds.
Where & how to watch
The Wailing is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever format suits their evening. This page is free to browse for anyone; streaming the film itself just requires logging into a K-Time account, with the interface built around a Farsi-friendly viewing experience throughout.