The Rope Curse (2018)

- Original title
- 粽邪
- Directed by
- Liao Shih-Han
- Genre
- horror
- Country
- Taiwan
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- IIB
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A TV reporter and YouTuber in Taiwan covers a traditional ritual to purge a site where someone hanged themselves. His fiancee gets drawn into the investigation when people start dying by hanging, all connected to her high school past and a decade-old bullying incident.
creepytensegloomysupernaturalsuspensefulforebodingunsettling
What happens
《粽邪》(),在2018年上映的驚悚電影,於2018年1月8日開鏡,拍攝40多天,由夏于喬、鄒承恩、陳博正領銜主演,取材台灣彰化沿海一帶傳統民俗送煞儀式——送肉粽,2018年8月31日於台灣上映。 臺灣彰化一帶,認為上吊自盡的人怨氣最重,可能會接二連三的捉交替,於是通常舉辦法會將繩索送到海邊或是在河流的出海口燒掉,以達驅邪之效,並以臺語黑話稱為「送肉粽」。吳家維在電視臺工作,身兼YouTuber,並以鬼故事題材為影片主題,聽說彰化舉辦了送肉粽儀式,他帶著助理「阿怪」到送肉粽現場,卻忘了帶補光燈,家維未婚妻林書儀,故鄉剛好在此地,貼心地把補光燈送來……但卻發現捲入了一場恐怖的事件,接二連三有人懸梁。當書儀得知,死者都是她十年前的高中同學後;她更回憶起這十年以來忘不了的,那難忘的高中校園霸凌...... (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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