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4 | ''Incantation'' is a 2022 Taiwanese found footage ReligiousHorror film, directed by Kevin Ko, and co-written by Ko and Chang Che-wei. The film centres around a woman called Li Ronan, who has recently regained custody of her daughter, nicknamed Dodo. The mother and daughter are targeted by supernatural forces, stemming from a curse placed on the family before Dodo's birth. |
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7 | !!This film provides examples of the following tropes: |
8 | * AnimalMotif: Caterpillars appear in many pivotal scenes. |
9 | * ArcWords: The eponymous incantation is repeated throughout the film. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that the incantation's purpose is to spread curses across multiple people, and thus dilute the effects.]] |
10 | * AudienceParticipation: Played for Drama. Li Ronan encourages the viewer to play with optical illusions onscreen and invites them to chant the incantation along with her. [[spoiler: It's revealed in the lead up to the climax that the entire audience will be afflicted by Mother-Buddha's curse, but Ronan is hoping that the chanting will dilute the curse enough to keep her daughter and the audience from suffering serious ill effects.]] |
11 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Li Ronan and Ming may be dead, and the audience may have contracted a supernatural curse, but the footage of Dodo implies that she is happy, and her burden has been lessened to the point where she can lead a normal life.]] |
12 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Played straight with Dodo. She is manipulated by supernatural forces, but aside from a sleepwalking scene in the beginning of the film, she is never portrayed as sinister beyond a child's normal behaviour. |
13 | * CreepyChild: The girl the Chen clan are planning to sacrifice has some very odd mannerisms and keeps a box of pet frogs, though she comes across more as a normal child trying to make her own entertainment in an admittedly freaky situation. |
14 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Characters possessed by Mother-Buddha will commit suicide by bashing their heads repeatedly against the nearest hard object. Examples include a stone wall, a computer desk and an altar to the Mother-Buddha herself.]] |
15 | * {{Curse}}: The cause of the hauntings in the film. |
16 | * DemonicPossession: Mother-Buddha possesses several characters, which usually results in suicide. |
17 | * DontLookAtMe: Seeing Mother-Buddha's face is one way to contract the curse. Any character that sees it in person is possessed and driven to suicide. |
18 | * TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Did you decide to play along with Li Ronan when she started chanting? [[spoiler:Well, bad news, you've just been afflicted by Mother-Buddha's curse.]] |
19 | * HauntedHeroine: Li Ronan is troubled by both her struggles with mental health and the malevolent entity hunting her family. |
20 | * OneWordTitle: Just "Incantation". Same goes for it's Mandarin title, ''zou'' (咒) which literally translates to its English title. |
21 | * VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The film was inspired by a case of [[https://www.storm.mg/lifestyle/4252427 mass hysteria in Kaohsiung in 2005]], in which members of a family were convinced they were possessed by various deities from Chinese folk religions, and accused each other of being demons. |
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