Supernatural horror aficionados looking to get some Netflix and CHILLS this weekend are in for a spooky treat – acclaimed Korean-Thai horror film The Medium is now streaming.
Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun (Shutter) and written by Na Hong-jin (The Wailing), the faux-documentary flick follows a shaman priestess possessed by a local deity worshiped in her community in Isaan who fights family and demons to uncover why her niece is the target of a demonic possession.
Praised for its tense visual narrative filled with unnerving scenes involving cannabalism, incest, and animal cruelty, the 2021 horror flick takes a dive into Thai supernatural beliefs. It doesn’t take long for its ethnographic pretenses to break down into tropes about the fate of young women with sexual agency.
The casual sexual encounters that Mink (Narilya Gulmongkolpech) doesn’t even…
