Incantation

(2022)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 861 votes

Genres: Horror

Year: 2022

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: Taiwan

Director: Kevin Ko

Cast: 蔡亘晏, Вэнь Као, 黃歆庭, 林敬倫, Wen Ching-Yu, 陳昭妃, 彭義, 林義欽, 洪毓璟, 黃玲

Plot

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

In Taiwan, after six years in a psychiatric facility, Li Ruo-nan recovers her daughter Dodo from a foster home, where she has been created by the social worker Hsieh Chi-ming. She recalls that six years ago, her boyfriend Chen Li-tung and his cousin Chen Chen-yuan are ghostbusters for their video channel. They head to a remote village where Tung and Yuan's relatives live and practice the Yunnan religion, worshipping Mother Buddha. Ruo-nan is not allowed to participate in their ritual and is informed that she is pregnant, and they advise that there is a tunnel where nobody can enter. However, Tung and Yuan break in the tunnel and briefly dies, and their footage is damaged. Soon Dodo is disturbed by an evil entity and becomes seriously ill. Ming, who loves Dodo as if she were his daughter, teams-up with Ruo-nan to research a cure. He learns that Mother Buddha is an evil entity and restores the footage. Will them be capable to save Dodo and themselves from their cursed fate?