The Wailing

Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

Isolated in his kitchen, a young cook is trying to make the perfect red snapper dish.

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

A short film about an armed man in a secret location.

While the first film takes place entirely during the day, director Na Hong-jin revealed that Hope 2 will shift the timeline into the night and will focus much more heavily on the perspective and history of the aliens.

Na Hong-jin clarified during his September 2026 press tour that his next immediate film will be a "darker, bloodier movie" that he has currently half-written, before returning to direct the sequel to Hope.