The Little Girl in Red
According to Chinese customs, people should change into clean filial piety clothes after death, most of their colors are plain, and the relatives of the deceased wear white clothes for them, and most of the guests who come to the funeral wear simple costumes such as black or dark colors, especially taboo red and purple.
In China, this is the rule of funerals.
But there is another legend in Chinese folklore that if the deceased wears a bright red robe, he can turn into a terrible "ghost" after death.
I would like to ask, a blue-faced dead body comes to you in red, are you afraid? I believe most people are afraid. So reduce the difficulty a little, if a little girl dressed in red lurks around you like a ghost, and still calls your name from time to time, are you afraid?
In the movie "Little Girl in Red", there is such a little girl dressed in red.
The movie "Little Girl in Red" currently has two films, the first one released in 2015 and the sequel released in 2017.
The film is based on the 1988 "Little Girl in Red Psycho incident" that once caused a sensation in Taiwan.
At the beginning of the story, an old grandmother walked alone in the mountains, in the quiet woods, behind her came the voice of a young girl, whispering her name over and over again, and the girl's voice was faintly mixed with laughter, as if she was playing hide-and-seek with the grandmother.
After that, the bulletin board of the community where the protagonist He Zhiwei lived posted a search notice, and the missing person was the grandmother who was in the forest at that time - Lin Lishui.
With the disappearance of Lin Lishui, the strange atmosphere unconsciously fermented around He Zhiwei, but at that time, he did not find any clues. He went to work as usual, and agreed with his grandmother He Wenshufang to take his girlfriend Shen Yijun home for dinner in the evening.
After He Zhiwei left, strange things began to play out in his home, Grandma suddenly heard someone whispering her name from behind, she looked back but there was no shadow, only a pool of mud appeared on the ground, and then Grandma's frightened face was covered by a pair of dry and purple palms.
He Zhiwei is a housing agent, after introducing the house to the customer, leaving him alone in the house, he suddenly saw a bento on the original empty table, he knew that it was a bento made by his grandmother, and he immediately called home and no one answered.
A bad premonition lingered in He Zhiwei's mind, he immediately rushed home, found that his grandmother was missing, the grandmother Lin Li, who had disappeared before, went home safely, and the search notice on the community bulletin board became He Wenshufang.
He Zhiwei is impatient, his girlfriend Shen Yijun is a radio anchor, and she also helps find her grandmother on the radio broadcast. At the same time, the two let the doorman Uncle Lin Huokun call the monitoring of the community, in the surveillance video, He Zhiwei and Shen Yijun found that the grandmother went out alone, but the walking posture was extremely strange, in the blink of an eye, the three clearly saw a little girl wearing red clothes from the surveillance video screen, and the figure of the little girl loomed, but it was still obvious that the little girl was holding the grandmother's hand and walking forward.
The doorman Lin Huokun immediately said that the little girl in red in the video was the legendary "Demon God Boy" who came to "catch the alternation", He Zhiwei and Shen Yijun were half-convinced at first, but when they saw Lin Lishui who had returned, he regretted crying: "It's my fault, I called Shufang's name." The two gradually began to believe Lin Huokun's words.
After the grandmother disappeared, one day He Zhiwei received a courier, the bag is Lin Lishui's camera, he curiously opened the video in the camera, is a group of elderly people travel video, the first missing grandmother Lin Lishui in the video called the name of Grandma He Wenshufang, Lin Huokun also loudly reminded: "Go up the mountain can not call the full name of others, nor can you pat others' shoulders, otherwise others will be caught alternately when they turn back." At the end of the video team, He Zhiwei saw a little girl in red with a vicious face, exactly the same as the little girl he saw in the community video.
After his grandmother disappeared, He Zhiwei was restless, reality and dreams began to split in his life, he often dreamed of his grandmother, until he saw the mud on the ground at home, he became the third person to disappear.
Knowing that her boyfriend was missing, Shen Yijun was anxious, while she was looking for her boyfriend, He Zhiwei's grandmother was found by the police and sent home, and her grandmother told Shen Yijun that she was sorry for He Zhiwei, and she called He Zhiwei's name.
As a result, in order to find her boyfriend, Shen Yijun began to look up the information of "Demon God Boy" on the Internet, and after that, the hospital informed her that she found a living moth pupae in her grandmother's vomit, called the Red Wing Grimace Moth.
In the quiet night, Shen Yijun went online to find a picture of the red-winged grimace moth, and when she enlarged the picture, she found that the pattern on the moth's back was the same as the face of the little girl in red in the video. At the same time, He Zhiwei's voice came from Lin Huokun's walkie-talkie in the security booth, and he shouted quietly: "Lin Huokun... Lin Huokun..."
Just when Shen Yijun was anxiously looking for the whereabouts of her boyfriend He Zhiwei, she received a phone call, the person on the phone informed her of He Zhiwei's whereabouts, she hurriedly called the police, and asked Lin Huokun to take care of her grandmother, Lin Huokun nodded sluggishly.
Shen Yijun came with the search and rescue team to the Wanlong Pit Deep Pit Ao, and after arriving, the leader of the search and rescue team informed Shen Yijun that wang Tianci, the leader of the search and rescue team who called her, had long since died, and also told her about the spiritual legend of the forest, and these bits and pieces of doubt were stitched together, making the whole thing more confusing.
Shen Yijun was separated from the search and rescue team on the mountain, and in the dark night, she was surrounded by fear, and the evil spirits also began to revel in the night, approaching her step by step.
She saw her boyfriend He Zhiwei tied up by a tree vine, wanting to save it, the little girl in red appeared, and in an instant she fell into a psychedelic dream, but in the end she broke free of the control of the little girl in red, she fought to the death to save her boyfriend and the little girl in red, when she lit the burning rod, the point of light flew into the air and exploded, lighting up the dark night, the little girl in red instantly turned into thousands of moths, dissipated in the light without a trace.
The search and rescue team arrived in time, and Shen Yijun and He Zhiwei were successfully rescued. After this ordeal, Shen Yijun and He Zhiwei and grandma lived an ordinary and happy life, and she was about to become a mother when she was pregnant with a baby.
However, the simpler happiness, the more like flowing water, the tighter it is grasped, the faster it loses.
The red-winged grimace moth in the mountains of Taichung still lurked around her like a ghost, like a time bomb that could blow up her peaceful life at any time.
Li Shufen, a social worker at the Taichung Domestic Violence Prevention and Control Center, visited a family because of her work relationship, and behind the dark and gloomy iron door covered with charms, she met Li Meihua, who had a haggard face and looked a little nervous.
For Li Shufen's home visit, Li Meihua was very resistant, and Li Shufen repeatedly insisted on getting started. Li Meihua's home is dim, there are rune papers on the walls, and the photos placed are photos of Li Meihua and her daughter Lin Yongqing, and the relationship between mother and daughter looks very good. But Li Shufen found a naked little girl Lin Yongqing in the dark room, covered in red pen and full of spells.
Li Shufen was very angry at this situation, she did not listen to Li Meihua's explanation, and she believed that Lin Yongqing had been abused by her biological mother, and took Lin Yongqing back to the community children's center.
Afterwards, Li Shufen received a call from a colleague, who said that after the hospital's identification, Lin Yongqing did not have any traces of abuse, and the little girl Lin Yongqing also told Li Shufen that she was not abused by Li Meihua, and said while drawing a symbol on her body with a red pen: "It is very dangerous outside, you must hurry home." Li Shufen listened confused.
At the same time, Li Shufen found that her underage daughter Li Yating was pregnant, and she immediately took her daughter to the hospital for a fetus, but her daughter hoped to keep the child, and the mother and daughter quarreled over whether the unborn baby was going or staying, and then Li Yating disappeared.
Li Shufen, who is eager for a daughter, found her daughter Li Yating's boyfriend Lin Junkai, who said that she had not contacted Li Yating, and Lin Junkai had another identity - Tiger Master. He could possess the gods in order to drive away evil spirits.
Li Shufen retrieved the surveillance video of the community, and she was horrified to see that her daughter was pulled away from the community by the little girl in red, and Lin Junkai bluntly said that Li Yating was captured by the "Demon God Boy".
Li Shufen resolutely called the police, and she and the search and rescue team came to the gathering place of the rumored "Demon God Boy" - the long-abandoned Cadori Amusement Park.
The figure of her daughter Li Yating appeared from time to time, leading Li Shufen to the abandoned hospital, where she saw Shen Yijun, a pregnant woman who was embarrassed and picking up insects to eat on the ground, and picked up her daughter Li Yating's mobile phone.
The first time she entered the mountain, Li Shufen did not find her daughter, but rescued Shen Yijun trapped in the hospital, and she temporarily took in the homeless Shen Yijun. Colleagues informed Li Shufen that a few years ago, someone was involved in the "Demon God Boy" incident, and the party was Shen Yijun, who was taken in by her.
Shen Yijun, who learned of the child's death, was devastated, she fell into a breakdown, the whole person was in a trance, and her husband He Zhiwei and her grandmother had died when she arrived in the mountains, and she had been trapped in the illusion created by the "Demon God Boy" for all these years. She told Li Shufen that the "Demon God Boy" was good at using people's hearts, creating beautiful illusions that made it difficult for people to extricate themselves, and the obsession fell deeper and deeper, until they fell into the abyss of death.
Li Shufen found Lin Junkai, hoping that he could help him find his daughter, Lin Junkai agreed, he and his grandfather borrowed the power of the gods to communicate with the "Demon God Boy", and learned that it was indeed the "Demon God Boy" who captured Li Yating, and the "Demon God Boy" was attached to Lin Junkai's grandfather, and asked Li Shufen to help find his birth mother.
Li Shufen at first thought that the mother of the "Demon God Boy" was Shen Yijun, who had lost her child, but when she returned home, she found that Shen Yijun was missing, and she saw the runes posted outside Li Meihua's door on the information left by Shen Yijun, and she immediately rushed to Li Meihua's house.
Unexpectedly, Li Shufen had just arrived at Li Meihua's house, and she did not have time to ask Li Meihua about the ins and outs of the matter, so she was invited into the house by Li Meihua in a serious tone and asked her to hide.
Knocking on the door sounded, the pale and strange-looking Shen Yijun followed her to Li Meihua's house, Li Meihua opened the door, she saw the hint, rolled up her sleeve to reveal the spell on her arm, she deliberately led Shen Yijun into the place where the huge yellow charm was hanging in the house, she quickly hugged Shen Yijun, the power of the spell drove the little girl in red out of Shen Yijun's body, Li Shufen, who was hiding aside, clearly saw the little girl in red with a vicious face emit a harsh and terrifying scream, disappeared in the blink of an eye, and Shen Yijun fainted and fell to the ground. Li Meihua and the little girl in red fought several times, and finally drove the little girl away.
Afterwards, Li Meihua shed tears of remorse, and she told Li Shufen that she was the birth mother of the little girl in red on the mountain. Years of painful memories were also revealed.
Many years ago, Li Meihua took her daughter Lin Yongqing to play at the Cardori Amusement Park, and Lin Yongqing died unexpectedly while riding the Ferris wheel. Li Meihua, who could not accept the cruel reality, cast a magic spell on the corpse of her daughter Lin Yongqing, the "Leaning Over".
The so-called "prostration spell" is a magic technique that can bring the dead back to life, the practitioner needs to put the deceased in red clothes, then put the body of the deceased in the pit, and then go to the mountain at the same time every day to chant the mantra for the deceased and pour chicken blood on the deceased.
At that time, Li Meihua, who had lost her beloved daughter, pinned all her hopes on the "leaning over curse", and seven days later, when she went to the mountain, she found that her daughter Lin Yongqing had really miraculously resurrected, but to her surprise, she was not resurrected by her own daughter, but a demon, an evil being whose cruel and ruthless body and mind were swallowed up by the devil.
Since then, she has inadvertently seen the TV news that someone has gone up the mountain and been taken away by the little girl in red, which makes her understand that the little girl in red is no longer her daughter, but the "demon boy". In order to prevent the "Demon God Boy" from endangering the human world, she went up the mountain again and firmly wrapped the "Demon God Boy" with a blanket full of spells, and when the "Demon God Boy" screamed in pain, she shed tears of heartache and regret.
I believe that no mother would kill her own child. The innate motherhood makes the mother only protect her child, even if it is at the expense of herself.
Li Shufen, Shen Yijun and Li Meihua are all like this.
In order to help Li Shufen find her daughter, Li Meihua decided to go up the mountain with her and face the "Demon God Boy" created by her hand. The three of them drove to the mountain, surrounded by fog that made it difficult to distinguish the direction. Li Meihua drew a spell on Li Shufen and Shen Yijun's hands, and she and Shen Yijun went to find the "Demon God Boy", let Li Shufen stay in the car, and told her to wait until the surrounding fog cleared before getting out of the car.
Li Meihua cut the skin with stones, blood oozed out, she shouted loudly, at this moment she was calling as a mother to the daughter who had become a "demon god boy", countless moths attacked Li Meihua like a tornado, "demon god boy" did not show mercy to her subordinates, and when she died, she understood that the original target of the "demon god boy" was not her, nor Li Shufen's daughter Li Yating, but her second daughter Lin Yongqing. She hurriedly asked Shen Yijun to go down the mountain to protect Lin Yongqing.
On the other hand, Lin Junkai, who saw through the treacherous scheme of the "Demon God Boy", could not contact Li Shufen to go up the mountain to look for her, but Li Shufen, because she saw the figure of her daughter Li Yating, disregarded Li Meihua's instructions and eagerly followed her daughter's figure into the white fog.
Li Shufen came to the abandoned hospital, she fell into the illusion of the "Demon God Boy", saw her daughter giving birth, the bloodied little baby held in her palm, and her heart beat at once. Her daughter also became unusually obedient, but she shook her head with regret, all this was not what she wanted to see, she did not want to kill innocent lives, just as she was pregnant after being violated by the senior, and did not beat the fetus, but chose to give birth to her daughter.
"Mom's sorry for you!" Li Shufen cried and hugged her daughter, and the tears of remorse shattered the illusion created by the "Demon God Boy", she would be saved by the daughter who was tied up by the tree vine, and the mother and daughter fled the gloomy abandoned hospital together. In the darkness, all the demons and ghosts hidden in the abandoned hospital all appeared, blocking the way of the mother and daughter, just when they panicked, the roar of a lifelong tiger sounded behind them, and Lin Junkai, who transformed into a "tiger god", arrived in time to repel the ghosts, but unexpectedly, her daughter Li Yating was ghostly, her eyes were stained with blood, and she emitted a sharp and terrifying laugh, interfering with Lin Junkai, and Lin Junkai slowly changed back into human form.
On the other hand, Shen Yijun, who was possessed by the "Demon God Boy", came to Li Meihua's home, she found Lin Yongqing, Lin Yongqing saw that the possessed Shen Yijun was very calm, she saw through the real body of the "Demon God Boy" at a glance, and asked: "Where is the mother?" ”
The Demon God Boy replied with a smile, "Mommy is dead." Lin Yongqing heard this and asked, "Why don't you protect your mother!" ”
Lin Yongqing bluntly said that "Demon God Boy" is her sister, and her name is the same name, also called Lin Yongqing, and her mother Li Meihua has never forgotten her. After listening to the "Demon God Boy", she left Shen Yijun's body and revealed her true body, she was no longer terrifying and evil, but became an innocent and cute little girl dressed in red, two little girls named Lin Yongqing held hands, and the little girl in red got rid of the identity of "Demon God Boy".
In the end, the little girl in red turned into thousands of moths, sacrificed herself to fight off the demons and ghosts surrounding Li Shufen's mother and daughter and Lin Junkai, and the three escaped from danger smoothly.
After that, Li Shufen agreed to let her daughter Li Yating and Lin Junkai be together. Shen Yijun's spirit returned to normal, and she adopted Lin Yongqing, who had no one to take care of her.
At this point, the "little girl in red incident" came to an end.
At the end of the story, Li Yating gave birth smoothly, everyone came to congratulate, and Lin Junkai, who was a new father, asked his grandfather with some uneasiness after being happy: "Grandpa, we... Really out of the way, right? Grandpa first looked gloomy, then smiled and said, "Of course." ”
Judging from the ending of the second part of the movie, if the director wants to shoot the third part, it is also understandable, and I personally think that the ending of the second part is already very satisfactory.
The 1988 "little girl in red" supernatural incident has not been able to confirm whether it is true or false. Dead people wear red + children, this combination comes with a terrifying effect. In the first part, the director focused on the horror and suspense of the little girl in red, while the second part described the identity of the little girl in red, justified her name at the same time, added a family element, so that this movie is not only a thriller, but also reflects the deep affection of mother and child.
In terms of special effects, the post-fight is somewhat dramatic, which makes people feel like watching science fiction movies. But whether it is the first part or the second part, the horror atmosphere is more in place, belonging to the type of more and more terrifying the more you think, and the overall exceeds expectations. Looking at the bugs in the two movies, the first is that the horror meme is too common, and it is easy to appear in other movies, especially the clip of Rainie Yang looking for her daughter in the second part, which is really very similar to "Silent Hill".
And the "leaning over spell" mentioned in the film, the method of casting the spell is to pour chicken blood on the dead person, I can't help but laugh out loud when I see this, director are you serious? The little girl was resurrected in seven days because of the beating of chicken blood? Such a bold setting is really a great skr person.
Finally, I would like to say that no one is born a demon, the world is not black and white, most people live in a gray area, holding angels in their left hand and holding demons in their right hand, and every time they stop at a crossroads called "confusion", whether it is an angel or a demon, you always have to make a decision, because time will not wait for you, angels and demons will not stay for you. Sometimes the road to heaven and hell is only a red light away.
The little girl in red is the one who stands at the intersection called "Confused" waiting for the red light.