Moloch (2022) Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a horror film: "Moloch"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins in a small wooden cottage in the woods. A little blonde girl is inside a closet,
and feeding a mouse. Suddenly, a loud thump echoes from upstairs,
followed by a woman screaming and the sounds of scuffles. Moments later,
blood drips through the floorboards and down the closet. The girl scurries away in fear.
Thirty years later, that girl has grown up into a woman named "Betriek". She now
has a daughter of her own, and she lives with her parents in a small village.
One day, as she is driving her daughter, they pass by a crime scene in a clearing. The authorities
have found a pit that was dug by a local elder, who had died due to hypothermia. Inside the
pit are the preserved bones of a woman. Betriek passes by a man inside a car going in the opposite
direction, and they nod at each other. The man is an archeology expert named Jonas,
who was called by the local village to help identify the bones.
That night, Betriek is awoken by her mother thrashing around in her sleep. Afterward,
she goes downstairs, and peeks out of the window, only to see a strange figure walking around her
garden. At first, she thinks it's her father, but he turns out to be inside the house.
The next morning, Betriek reports the strange sighting last night. Jonas apologizes,
and promises that he will tell his men doing the excavation not to wander around at night.
Betriek and Jonas later get to know each other. They visit the local bar, and down some drinks.
She shares that the thing she hates most, is when people would just grab so many free things,
like when her mother would grab handfuls of sugar packets in restaurants. However, the liquor hits
Jonas a little too hard, and he is swaying his drunk muscles, while he and Betriek are walking
home. He asks her why she is still single after all this time. Betriek replies that she is seen by
the villagers as a cursed person, and no one wants to get close to her. She adds that her grandmother
was killed when she was a kid, and no one knows who did it. Her father became an alcoholic after
that incident, and her mother is now afflicted with a strange illness. For some time, Betriek
lived in New York, but her husband died, and she had to come home to take care of her daughter.
The next night, Betriek finds a strange man in her kitchen. He is disoriented and holding a knife. He
apologizes, and says that he drank some of their milk. Betriek immediately goes to her mother's
room, and tells her about the man. The man inches closer to them, and grabs the mother. He hoarsely
whispers that someone is making him do this. He howls, and then brings down the knife. Betriek
manages to make it up the stairs, while the mother tries to stop the man's knife from
cutting her. Luckily, Betriek's father sneaks up behind the man, and lands a blow on his head.
The next morning, Jonas visits Betriek's house, and apologizes to her family, because the attacker
turns out to be one of his crew. Betriek takes Jonas to her room, so they could talk. She
breaks down in tears, because it appears that the curse haunting her family is alive and well.
Downstairs, the mother whispers that things are happening all over again. The father suggests that
they leave, but the mother refuses. She stands up to go to the kitchen, and then faints.
They rush the mother to the hospital, and run tests on her. Like before, the doctors still
have no idea what her illness is. While walking around the hospital, Betriek notices a girl in one
of the rooms staring at her. The girl follows her to an elevator, and she keeps repeating the same
phrase. The girl reaches out to touch Betriek's hand, and she reciprocates. When they clasp hands,
the elevator comes to a standstill, and the lights turn off. Betriek catches her reflection in the
mirrored panel, and sees that a ghostly woman is standing behind her, with pale blonde hair
standing up on its ends. The elevator starts working again, and Betriek rushes outside.
In the parking lot, she runs into Jonas, who is visiting the attacker in the hospital.
He mentions that the other members of his crew had seen the attacker digging his pit near the
area. This jogs something in Betriek's mind, and she takes Jonas with her to the bar.
She explains that the local elder, who died days before, was also found digging a pit. There inside
the bar is the elder's father. He shares that his family had always had a supernatural connection
with the afterlife. His son, the local elder, had gotten a message from beyond the grave,
and he knew exactly where to dig the pit to discover the bones. Jonas adds that the bones
they excavated are very old. The elder's father relates that to the folktale of the monster,
lurking in the bog bordering their village. While driving home, Betriek and Jonas get into
an argument, because he thinks she is being too paranoid. Betriek resents that he is treating
her like a crazy person, so she gets out of the car, and proceeds to walk down the clearing. Jonas
follows her, and tries to apologize. Eventually, the two of them make up. They share a kiss without
using their tongues, but later spend the night wrestling each other's muscles together.
Later on, Jonas returns to the excavation site. His team discovered that the excavated woman's
cause of death was her throat being slit. Other bodies were found with their throats
slit vertically too. Jonas orders his crew to research the folktale that The elder's father
had mentioned. Long ago, a king and queen ruled the kingdom together. They had a servant girl
named Feike, who mysteriously became pregnant. The queen suspected that it was the king who fathered
her child, so she spread rumors around the kingdom that Feike was an evil witch. Feike soon felt the
other villagers' wrath, and she was thrown into captivity. In her moment of despair, Feike called
on Moloch, the god of child sacrifice. In return for her revenge, Moloch demanded that Feike give
up her life and her unborn child's life. She agreed to it, and killed herself by slitting
her throat vertically. In exchange, Moloch gave her the ability to possess the queen's body and
control her. This curse continues to haunt the village, and claims unborn generations.
Betriek attends her daughter's play. Her mother also watches in the audience. However,
her father never comes, and later on, they pass by him in the forest, digging for something.
Betriek decides to visit The elder's father. Using his sixth sense, he takes Betriek back
to the memory of her grandmother dying when she was hiding in her closet. Not long after,
she resurfaces from the memory. Betriek next heads to the excavation site. She
realizes that the other dead women found were the people sacrificed to Moloch in order to keep the
curse going. What's more, They were from the same lineage of Feike, including Betriek, her mother,
and her daughter. It turns out, Feike's deal with Moloch meant that she would have to sacrifice all
the offsprings in her bloodline, so she could control their bodies. She had been killing one
woman in every generation, in order for her to live on. That fateful night when Betriek's
grandmother died, a ritual sacrifice occurred. Feike was in control of the grandmother's body,
causing the grandmother to slit her throat, and thus finish the sacrifice of that generation,
and allowing Feike to transfer into and control Betriek's mother's body instead. All these years,
Feike had controlled the mother's body, and now it's Betriek's turn to be sacrificed.
After this, Betriek goes home, and starts packing her things. She
informs her mother that they are leaving. Meanwhile, Betriek's father is wandering around
the woods. Suddenly, intensifying whispers begin to echo. A group of women clad in white shifts,
approach the father. Leading the group is a woman, who looks very similar to Betriek's
mother. Actually, this is the mother's real spirit, who was cast out of her own body by Feike.
The other women are all Betreik's ancestors, who were sacrificed by Feike to Moloch. The spirits
are the ones who have been possessing men, and sending them to attack and kill the possessed
mother with Feike's spirit inside. Now, they will use Betriek's father to kill the possessed mother,
hoping to end Feike's curse cycle. They possess the father and control his
body. He goes back to the house, and forces open the door. He then tries
to attack the possessed mother; but Betriek incapacitates him with a blow to the head.
Later on, the mother hangs the father with a noose. She then knocks Betriek unconscious.
When Betriek wakes up, she is wearing a white shift, and her hands are tied to the bed. In
front of her sits her mother with a razorblade. Her mother slits her throat with a vertical slice,
indicating that Feike is performing the ritual to finish the next sacrifice,
and also transfer her from the mother's body into Betriek's. Betriek convulses in her bed.
Meanwhile, Jonas stumbles inside the house, and frees Betriek from her
bonds. He also gets Betriek's daughter from the closet where she's hiding.
Some time later, the two of them meet in a cafe. He offers to take her and her daughter in;
but Betriek refuses. She assures him that she is fine, and he doesn't need to worry. Before
leaving, she grabs a handful of sugar packets from the table. Jonas suddenly remembers that on the
night they met, Betriek mentioned that she hates people who would take lots of free things, like
her mother did. Because of that, Jonas realizes that Betriek is no longer the same person he met,
and she is acting more like her mother. Betriek and her daughter continue to live in
the same house. One night, as Betriek reads to her daughter, the spirits of the women appear.
It's the real Betriek's spirit, who steps closer to the window, and watches with tears in her eyes,
as Feike takes control and uses her body. It's revealed that The ritual was successful,
and Betriek's spirit was cast out of her own body, and replaced by Feike. Feike
just stares at the spirits, and continues to read to the daughter. The movie ends with
the daughter glancing up, and seeing the hazy image of the spirits passing by.
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