In 2016, a domestic small-budget horror film "Middle Evil" exploded.
Under the lens of the pseudo-documentary, the unique "feudal superstition and superstition" in the countryside has been magnified to the extreme.
Although the ending is Schrödinger's ghost, it is a stunning work of Chinese horror films in recent years.
As we all know, 2021 is also the big year of Oriental horror films.
Thailand's "Psychic Medium" and the domestic "Crying Sorrow" are both eagerly awaited by horror fans.
Today, junjun wants to bring this year's horror "highlight".
Released on the "scared" on the hot search, this "head down" film came -
Southern Witch I 2021
Douban score: 7.6
"Southern Witch" is the work of Malaysian director Cheung Ji An, and the story is based on his real childhood experiences.
The story takes place in a village on the border of Martei, under the hill of Kedah Elephant Island.
Because the inhabitants of various countries are mixed here, many unique legends and beliefs have been born.
And one of the most frightening is the middle head...
01
The story takes place in a family of four.
Husband Ah Chang, a small trader, usually buys some homegrown dried shrimp and fish to feed his family.
The family has a wife Ah Yan who is married far away, and two sons who are attending elementary school.
Like many locals, Achan was very superstitious about Dato's Duke (similar to our land lord) and set up shrines in the courtyard to worship.
However, his wife Ah Yan did not believe in these gods and ghosts, and the two often quarreled over this.
One day, Ah Chang chased away the snake next to the shrine in the courtyard and accidentally broke the door panel of the neighbor's house.
At night, the neighbor Anand came to the door and scolded.
Ah Chang and Ah Yan saw that each other was so fierce and wanted to give twenty yuan, and Anan took the money and scolded and left.
But unexpectedly, the next day, Anand was in a car accident and was run over by a truck on the road...
This accident became the fuse of everything.
Anand's mother blamed her son's death on the head of the Achan family and manipulated them in front of their house.
Subsequently, Ah Chang suddenly fainted while touching a fish in the river.
Fortunately, the children found an adult in time and carried Ah Chang home.
The man woke up and began to vomit incessantly, and strangely enough, in addition to the blood, there were a few rusty steel nails.
How can a normal person spit out steel nails from his stomach?
From that day on, Ah Chang fell ill.
Ah Yan felt that he should believe in science, so he took him to the hospital.
But the doctor saw it, and the medicine was also taken, but it did not get better.
Ah Yan remembered the steel nails that spat out and went to the hardware store to inquire, but was treated as crazy by the store.
A few days later, Anand arrived at the first seven, and the family invited someone to do it.
Hearing the movement outside, Ah Chang wanted Ah Yan to help himself out and apologize to Anand's mother.
But Ah Yan refused, the car accident was originally an accident, what does it have to do with his family?
Fast forward a month.
The husband has been sick in bed, and there is no way to do it now.
She had to start asking for help from witchcraft...
02
With the help of a friend, Ah Yan found a wizard who was said to be able to communicate with Dato Gong.
The wizard god nagged.
It is said that it was because Ah Chang peed on the mountain and angered the mountain god that he was demoted.
He asked Ah Yan to bring the water back to Ah Chang to drink, and then go to the mountain to worship the mountain god.
When she went to the mountain to worship, Ah Yan overheard a woman telling the legend of Xiangyu Mountain.
The mountain goddess mother-in-law was originally a princess from Quanzhou, China, named Ke Niang.
When he came to this place with the prime minister, he was favored by a wizard and gave her a lower head to be trapped in this place.
The mountain god mother-in-law is also a poor person who has wandered into a foreign land and will not harm people.
Ah Yan returned home after listening to the story, but the trip was fruitless.
In a blink of an eye, three months passed.
Ah Yan, who had nothing to do, finally found a de-descending master who had washed his hands in a golden basin.
After begging, he told Ah Yan that the descending ghost was hiding in the tree in front of his house.
It is not impossible to remove the drop.
One, go back and sprinkle holy water around the tree.
Second, insert the Witch Shortsword under the tree.
Third, if something strange is found under the tree after a few days, it is all wrapped in black cloth, and the idol of Datuk Ishito is also placed in it.
Fourth, go out to sea, go to the middle of the sea, and throw everything into the sea.
After doing the above, the head can be lifted.
As for whether Ah Chang can be healed or not, it depends on his own creation.
After saying all this, the Ex-Descendant Master warned Ah Yan not to tell anyone that this method was taught by him.
Pay attention to the car above
Back at home, Ah Yan did exactly what he said.
Within a few days, Ah Yan found something under the tree, and she quickly drove to the dock and took a boat out to sea.
In the darkness of the night, the idol of a straw man was thrown into the sea.
The next day, Ah Chang stood up...
The above is part of the plot of the movie "Southern Witch".
Watching the entire film, there are almost no shocking horror shots.
However, the director uses a unique narrative perspective and atmosphere to create a story of "lowering the head" under a complex cultural environment.
On the surface, it is a supernatural story, but the film is actually attached with many metaphors.
At the junction of the countryside where culture and religious belief are mixed, what is more terrifying than ghosts is the lack of return of the human heart.
From this point of view, "Southern Witch" is also a literary film cloaked in the cloak of folk horror films.
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