‘Exhuma’ Debuts atop Box Office with Nearly 2 Mln Admissions

A poster for Jang Jae-hyun’s new occult thriller “Exhuma” is seen in this image provided by Showbox on Feb. 23, 2024. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The mystery thriller “Exhuma” drew nearly 2 million moviegoers over the weekend, topping the local box-office chart in the first week of its release, data showed Monday.

Jang Jae-hyun’s occult film attracted 1.96 million moviegoers from Friday to Sunday, according to the data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).

The figure is larger than the 1.49 million collected by the 2023 historical film “12.12: The Day” on the opening weekend. Released Nov. 22, the film became the highest grossing film last year with more than 13 million admissions.

“Exhuma” had posted a cumulative 2.29 million viewers since its release Thursday, becoming the fastest movie to reach the 2 million admission mark this year.

Starring Choi Min-sik and Kim Go-eun, “Exhuma” follows two shamans, a feng shui expert and a mortician, who team up to get to the bottom of a series of mysterious events plaguing a wealthy U.S.-based family, by exhuming its ancestor’s grave in a remote Korean village.

(Yonhap)