Incarnation (2022)
3/10
Starring
Tsai
Hsuan-yen
Huang
Sin-ting
Kao
Ying-hsuan
Sean
Lin
RQ
Directed
by: Kevin
Ko
The movie starts with an idea of
hope, then it just ends the way I expected it to, everyone dies.
Oops, spoilers.
This movie borrows ideas from The Blair Witch Project and The Ring, but
the bottom line is, I did not like it. I was asked to see it by my wonderful
sister from another mother, because she wanted to hear
my thoughts on her thoughts about the movie. So, looking forward to that
discussion.
I expected a fun time seeing this, but what I got instead was that feeling that
this movie wants to drag out fear in me rather than actually make me scared.
Halfway into the movie, and I have to be honest, it felt like nothing was even
happening.
Some things in
this movie, makes me wonder the logic or common sense in these people’s decision.
Rohan and her
two friends go to a village to
investigate whether the supernatural things done there are real, and then weird
things start happening. One of which is, the
people who conduct the rituals locked them in a room after
being asked to follow their rules and they refused. They
break out, and instead of now leaving, they decide, “let us sneak around some
more.”
Then they find a girl who is in critical condition, instead of leaving with her to the hospital,
one of them
team decides to go explore a spooky tunnel and the other follows.
I was like, call me stupid, but this does not make sense.
But this movie all together does not add up to anything remotely
coherent.
In this movie, the child actors are
just amazing, they carry the movie better than the adults do.
So what is this movie about? Well,
as I said above, a lady named Rohan went to a village with two of her friends
to cover a spiritual ritual. Rohan happens to be pregnant, and when they get
there, she is asked to leave.
As you can guess, she does not, and
they start sneaking around recording things they were told not to. What happens
next is exactly that, the two men go to explore the tunnel and never come back,
or never came
back the same.
So what happens to Rohan? Well, she
has her child, and she suffers a mental breakdown because of it, putting her
child into foster care.
Later, she gets the child back, and then weird things start happening on
day one of the child being back with her.
It is obvious the time in the village something has
entered the child, and that thing wants to kill everyone and anyone who saw the
footage of the tunnel.
One of the other issues I have with
this movie is the time jump between now and six years ago. It just happens, and
I always have to catch myself to be sure what time period I am looking at.
There are also times when the found
footage does not make sense. There
is a moment where she is fleeing with the man who helped care for her daughter,
and she is recording. Then later,
when she feeds her daughter and the spiritual horrors start to happen, she goes
to the shop of the couple who helped her, pushing her child in a wheelchair
while recording everything with a camera.
I am like, time and place.
In the end, was I scared? No.
I just felt like this is why I do not watch horror movies anymore,
because they do not make sense, and the fear factor is
not real to me anymore.
