Incantation
(Original title: Zhou)
2022
A woman's life is plagued with misery after witnessing a private family ceremony.
When you are trying to find something to watch with friends the hardest part is making a selection. One night one of my friends declared, "I got it! I have the movie!" and suggested INCANTATION. Okay. Why not?
Li Ronin (Hsuanyen Tsai) and her two friends have a paranormal investigation channel on the internet. They try documenting a private family ceremony, and everything goes wrong after that.
This movie is kinda like a Taiwanese combination of Blair Witch and The Ring in that the main characters want to check something out due to curiosity and all end up dying, and people around them, in a grisly manner. In this scenario the family ceremony is an INCANTATION to spread out the curse that had been inflicted upon the family generations ago. The ceremony is meant to thin it out and spread it around so it's not as bad for the family.
The concept sounds pretty harsh and scary, but the movie is in fact, long, drawn out, and boring. It's all found footage, so it's unstable with loads of filler. It's pretty exhausting as you wait some anything to happen, and when it does, it can be a bit gory, but hardly scary. A couple scenes build up suspense, then it goes nowhere. Totally unsatisfying.
























