Speaking of "Duck Detective", it must be a childhood shadow that cannot be erased in the hearts of countless people.
This is a speculative animation produced by Shanghai Film Studio, Shanghai Oriental Television, and Canadian CINAR Animation Company.
But everyone who has seen it knows that this is a horror movie with the name of a detective.
From the plot setting, the musical atmosphere, to the details of the scene, all of them bring the horror atmosphere to the extreme.
Fortunately, the animation itself was positioned in a younger age direction, and a "duck world" was constructed;
If all the ducks in it were replaced by people, "Duck Detective" would not be a childhood shadow, but an adult shadow.
In this article, the author has selected two representative stories from these episodes to explain.
The first is Episode 11: "The Kissing Earl."
On this day, Detective Miss May received a letter from her aunt.
Miss May's unremarkable aunt lives in England and has a mediocre billionaire fortune.
Her hobbies are also unremarkable, and she likes to write some letters about the shortness of parents.
The last time my aunt's letter said that the dog raised by the second uncle of the next door neighbor had been sent to someone, and the seventh aunt of the family who was sent to her father unfortunately died;
This time, Miss Mei opened the letter as usual and ate melon.
Ooh! Dead again.
Or her aunt.
Wait, her aunt?
The aunt who has no husband and children, no parents and brothers, only her dear little niece?
Miss Mei pressed the small heart that was desperately fluttering, and fixed her mind to look down.
Sure enough, the letter informed her to go to her aunt's house, attend the reading of the will, and inherit the hundreds of billions of family property.
She cried, really.
Miss Mei put down the letter, and her hands clasped her aunt's picture frame, leaving tears of sorrow and joy.
The sad thing is that the melon field is gone, and the joy is that it is suddenly rich.
Sadly, Miss May remembered to call her nephew (Inspector Weller):
Woohoo, my aunt is dead.
Inspector Weller: What? A case solved?
Miss May: ...
After a brief silence, Miss May:
I received letters, my aunt passed away, and my inheritance belonged to me.
Inspector Weller: Coincidentally, I received a letter, my aunt died, and the inheritance belonged to me.
One inheritance, two successors?
No, no, no, is the heir to a room.
Presumably, their greetings were probably:
Do you have a hundred billion inheritance to inherit?
Coincidentally, so did I.
My aunt's mansion was an old castle that sat on top of the hill she had bought.
In order to meet her unremarkable needs, her aunt hired a fleet of taxis to meet the travel needs of the people in the castle.
Miss May took an exclusive taxi to the kasbah.
On the way, Miss Mei asked the driver about her aunt's recent situation and wanted to ask the reason for her aunt's sudden death.
However, the driver looked completely unaware that his employer had passed away, saying that his aunt had taken his car out for a walk two days ago.
This situation is clearly not right.
In the castle, this feeling of wrong intensified.
The stairs upstairs are all very unlucky "thirteen steps".
Outside the house, the wind and rain increased, and the power outside the house suddenly went out, and the inside of the house was pitch black.
Dinner full of garlic flavor.
This is the dish that the lawyer in charge of reading the will makes for everyone.
There was a lot of noise at the table, and each duck was pregnant with a ghost fetus.
They all believed that they were the true heirs of the inheritance, and the dining atmosphere was fierce.
Until the lawyer came forward and played the videotape left by the aunt;
Only then did this nest of ducks close their mouths.
In the videotape, the aunt mainly tells two things.
The first is that there is a story about the Kissing Earl.
The Kissing Earl searched for his lost duck until his death, even if he became a ghost.
Every full moon night, he would come out to find an object and transform into a kissing demon.
Ducks are most afraid of kissing, and for them, it is no different from death.
Then the topic followed, and the aunt brought out the second thing she had to say—the requirement of inheritance.
This castle is where the Kissing Earl lives, and whoever can spend the night in the castle is the ultimate heir to the inheritance.
After watching the videotape, the ducks watched the lawyer leave.
What they didn't notice was that behind them, in a corner where all the ducks couldn't see, the painting of an aunt's portrait quietly rolled its eyes.
(PS: Here the original portrait eye is replaced and replaced by "duck eye")
Most of the kissing earl's points of fear come from these eyes that appear in all corners of the castle.
It is like a shadow behind everyone, everyone knows its existence, but can't touch its traces.
Even if you have a view of God, you can only get "its white eyes."
Man dies for money, birds die for eating;
Even though the ducks and ducks present were already timid, none of them chose to withdraw from the competition.
This also understands the temptation of a hundred billion inheritance.
Mistakes everyone makes.
The night was destined to be extraordinarily noisy.
Outside Miss May's window, "The Kissing Earl" appeared.
Based on the shape of his mouth, I have seen him with his head sideways.
"Kissing Earl" thought that this would make Miss May panic?
Joke.
Miss Mei didn't even take off her blindfold, and she wasn't afraid at all.
As the heroine, Miss Mei's blindfold was worn for a while, and her hands were calmly placed on both sides.
The status of the whole duck is capitalized:
Don't talk, kiss me.
The kissing earl instigated.
Miss Mei waited until the flowers were all thankful, and then reluctantly took off the blindfold.
The wind outside the window whistled, and there was not even a ghost.
From this, Miss May concluded that the kissing earl that had just appeared must be a fake.
Yazi, who did not kiss the mad demon lightly at all, was not qualified!
Now that it had been determined that the ghost theory was nothing more than nonsense, Miss Mei had no more concerns.
She tried to turn on the light, but she knew very well that if someone wanted to pretend to be a ghost, it was bound to cut off the power of the castle.
Sure enough, all the lights in the house couldn't be turned on.
Lighting the candlestick in the room, Miss May went to check on the other rooms.
Nephew Weller was already scared to cry, hiding in the quilt and shivering.
There were also dark shadows flashing in his room;
Unlike Miss Mei's calmness, the nephew smashed the mirror in his hand on the spot.
Wait, late at night in the mirror to take a self-portrait...
Weller, the little male duck, has something.
The aunt and nephew were exchanging information, when suddenly there was a scream in the next room.
It was the room of the three sisters.
The ducks slammed the door open and found only the eldest of the three sisters left in the room.
The other person wrapped his own small quilt tightly.
Said that the kissing earl appeared, kidnapped her two sisters, and forcibly kissed her little cheek.
The eldest sister's words made Miss Mei more certain in her heart: kissing the earl was his duck disguise.
How can a kissing maniac pick a duck kiss?
Men and women, ah no, ducks and animals should kiss indiscriminately.
And the truth is indeed as Miss Mei thought.
In the ensuing investigation, Miss May and Weller inadvertently discover the chamber in the castle.
This chamber leads directly to the castle gate, which has an extra umbrella at the entrance to the castle;
It was the one Miss Mei gave to the lawyer.
Below the Chamber of Secrets, there is also a sarcophagus.
On the sarcophagus is a genealogy that records all the relatives of my aunt's family.
Miss Mei Ben Duck is also impressively listed.
It is worth mentioning that the family tree was deliberately torn off a page by the duck.
This is obviously a duck who wants to hide his identity and want to cover up.
And the identity of this duck is also very easy to guess.
This genealogy is like being soaked in garlic juice for several years, and the smell goes straight to Miss Mei's brain.
Apparently, the guy behind the scenes is the lawyer who is addicted to garlic and can't help himself.
Miss May lures the lawyer out by boiling garlic;
I don't know what kind of obsession this duck has with garlic, but it smells and is hooked.
With the arrest of the lawyers, the truth was also made public.
Miss Mei shouted "Aunt", and the missing ducks walked out with their aunt.
It turned out that all this was a play performed by my aunt.
The lawyer was originally a distant relative of my aunt and came to help manage my aunt's finances very early.
However, in recent years, my aunt suddenly discovered that this greedy boy had been making false accounts, so my aunt tricked the lawyer into revealing her true face.
Anyway, the lawyer's original idea was:
As long as I scare off all the ducks, I am the only one who inherits the ducks.
This episode also leaves suspense at the end:
When Miss Mei thought that everything was settled and returned home, she found a letter in the taxi.
Book: I didn't expect it, I kissed the earl and could still wave!
Miss Mei quickly asked the driver: Who was the last passenger?
The driver replied: It was a male duck in a black ragged trench coat, leaving the castle before dawn.
The eyes that were scattered all over the castle were not the aunt hiding in the shadows, nor the lawyers.
It's the real Kissing Earl.
The character of the Kissing Earl also appears in later episodes, and the ending is quite good.
However, I will not spoil it here.
Another of the more terrifying episodes, called Headless Ghosts, is episode 5.
The story takes place in Central America, on the way to find the Ma Duck (Mayan) civilization;
The cause is that Dr. Grey Duck receives a letter of rampant curse.
He said that he wanted to take away Dr. Gray Duck in a wave and signed the headless ghost.
This time in the guise of the duck, the sponsor of the team, the banker Harrow.
Haro as a sponsor is really condescending, if he were to become an actor, it is estimated that he would have won the Film Emperor Grand Slam.
First of all, set yourself up a superstitious + cowardly persona, and try to render a terrifying atmosphere in the team.
Mouth saying "ducks and ducks can't carry shoulders, hands can't lift", delicate rich people do pie.
In fact, the danger comes, and directly grasping the vine is a pull-up.
When you're done, you have to shout a word of hand pain.
Along the way, boulders rolled down and the canoe bridge broke, all of which were traps set by "delicate rich people".
Why are you so capable?
In the evening, the banker also asked for the COS Headless.
Although I don't know what exactly he was called when he rode.
Look at the ears like a little donkey's.
However, look at the essence aside from the outside.
It's actually a small bike.
It's like everyone thinks that bankers are scared into a cold sweat by headless ghosts.
In fact, he pedaled his bike in the middle of the night and sweated profusely because of strenuous exercise.
Banker: In fact, I didn't sweat so much before, this is not a duck and duck that has also grown a "general's belly".
Hey, I want the author to say, are so rich, why not change the electric bicycle?
I don't understand it very well.
The real identity of the banker Haro is actually the scum of archaeology.
He had discovered the ruins of Ma Duck many years ago, but he had been keeping it secret and choosing to steal cultural relics and sell them.
That's what it is today's sponsor.
And the reason why he threatens to intimidate Dr. Gray Duck is only to hide the ruins of The Mallard to satisfy his selfish desires.
But I don't want to be self-defeating, and I fell into your sister Mei's duck claw.
Many of the stories of "Duck Detective", although the reasoning process is not complicated, the story and picture rendering are very exquisite.
I don't know if it is the director's regret that he can no longer let go of the script.
But it is precisely because of this that there is a "childhood shadow" that makes a generation unforgettable.
There is actually an urban legend about "Duck Detective".
Rumor has it that "Duck Detective" actually has a total of 52 episodes, rather than the 26 episodes broadcast in China.
The missing part is because the plot contains a large number of murder plots and has not been reviewed, and can only be broadcast abroad.
If this is true, then everyone watched fake "Duck Detective" when they were young?
Because of this urban legend, many netizens choose to climb over the wall to find relevant resources on the extranet, but they have found nothing.
I also searched the Internet (Quietly Mimi climbed the wall) and could not find the resources of the other 26 episodes in the rumor.
In fact, it is impossible for a film to have such a big difference in style.
The 26 episodes of "Duck Detective" have a lot of horror elements, but there is nothing bloody about it.
Can't the other half be crazy "Texas Chainsaw Killer", right?
The reason why urban legend is an urban legend is because it is "passed from person to person".
The author is still more inclined to have no legendary missing episodes.
If you don't mind the horror atmosphere, this film is actually quite suitable for children.
After all, the three views in it are very positive, and the plot is also very good.
However, children who are too young still don't want to be killed.