They forbid her from eating for the next seven days, but when her condition deteriorates and runes appear all over her body, Ronan feeds her. They bring Dodo to a shrine, where a priest and his wife agree to risk their lives to exorcize Dodo.
When social workers arrive to take Dodo away, she and Ronan escape with the help of Ming, the sympathetic manager of the foster care home. Dodo gradually develops a debilitating illness and Ronan's mental health declines. Their house soon becomes infested by unexplained activities and Dodo is disturbed by a shadowy presence. In the present, Ronan has recovered and is taking Dodo to live with her. After Dodo was born, Ronan left her at a foster care home and sought psychiatric help. The footage from within the tunnel has since become damaged and cannot be played. Yuan later emerged screaming hysterically, while Dom's lifeless body was later seen being carried by the villagers from the tunnel. Ronan waited with the girl while Dom and Yuan entered the tunnel after destroying its barricades. The unconscious girl, whose body was covered in runes, was left in front of a tunnel, which the group were keen to enter but the clan had said was forbidden. That night, the group spied on the clan performing the ritual, where a young girl seemed to be willingly prepared for a sacrifice. A clan elder told Ronan that after her daughter was born, she must also submit her daughter's name Ronan was surprised as she had not realized that she was pregnant. The clan asked the three to submit their names with the incantation to the Mother-Buddha. They went to a remote clan village inhabited by Dom and Yuan's relatives, who practiced an esoteric Yunnan religion worshipping an ancestral deity called Mother-Buddha. Six years earlier, Ronan, her boyfriend Dom, and Dom's cousin Yuan, broke a religious taboo while documenting a ritual for their online video channel. The events of the film are shown as a found footage in a non-linear manner. The insignia and incantation are interspersed frequently throughout the film to encourage the viewer to pray along. It received international distribution from Netflix on July 8, 2022.Ī woman named Li Ronan narrates the film, imploring the viewer to memorize an insignia and chant an incantation to send blessings and lift a curse on her six-year-old daughter, Dodo. The film was released in Taiwan on March 18, 2022, and it became the highest-grossing Taiwanese horror film.
Incantation ( Chinese: 咒 pinyin: Zhòu) is a 2022 Taiwanese found footage supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Ko, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Chang Che-wei.
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