With two of her ghostbuster buddies dead from going too far with their documentation, Ronan slips into an abyss. The desecration of an age-old ceremony (involving a child, several elders, a goat, a symbol and a guttural chant) by a trio of camera-wielding ghostbusters, unleashes a curse – a curse that only weakens if more people invoke the incantation together. This isn’t the film for you if you’re looking for a resolution or a clearly mapped out beginning, middle and end.Ĭast – Tsai Hsuan-yen, Huang Sin-ting, Kao Ying-hsuan, Sean Lin, RQ The writing, though not as frightening as it ought to have appeared on screen, does ensure that you’re left with many questions towards the end. The complex bond that Tsai Hsuan-yen and Huang Sin-ting bring to the fore as parent and child stands out in the film’s two-hour run. What unsettles in Incantation (Zhou, in the original Mandarin and Taiwanese) is not so much the gradual build-up of a curse that gets passed on, ancient rituals performed in a remote region of the mountains, a recurring symbol and an eerie invocation to a faceless deity, but the racking guilt gnawing its way through a mother’s heart when it comes to her young child. The former’s desperate wish to make amends for the fractured past owing to her debilitating mental health issues is the undoubted highpoint of this intense feature. ![]() Li Ronan (Tsai Hsuan-yen) shares an uneasy relationship with her tight-lipped six-year-old, Dodo (Huang Sin-ting). Kevin Ko’s slow burn Taiwanese found footage / mockumentary horror film scores points on the sheer psychological and emotional impact of motherhood and the guilt attached therein (the inability to take care of one’s own, in this case).
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