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Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "The Charnel House"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins in a slaughterhouse located in the shabby meat-packing district of a bustling city
Downstairs, the workers are all loading the meat into trucks
Upstairs, a kid is drawing in a dusty clock tower
A moment later, policemen arrive and enter the building
The boy’s father appears with blood all over his clothes
He holds his son close, and suddenly he jumps through the window, taking the boy with him
But this is all a strange vision the boy’s having
He’s still safe in the tower, looking out the window
Then he hears his father’s voice coming up the stairs,
and he has the chilling feeling that his vision is about to come true
Like in his vision, his father is covered in blood, and he steps closer to the boy
The father apologizes to the boy, and tells him that love won’t die
Then he hugs his son and jumps out of the window
However, he notices mid-air that his son isn’t actually in his arms
In fact, the boy, guided by his strange vision, is able to duck out of the way at the last second
Soon after, the policemen cart the boy out of the building
He looks up one last time to the tower, and sees himself still there, looking out of the window
Years later, the slaughterhouse has been converted into a fancy apartment building
The meat-packing district is no longer the poor part of the town,
and has turned into an upscale residential neighborhood for wealthy families
Inside, the building developer, Alex,
shows all the fancy features the automated apartments have,
to a new resident, a professional footballer
Each unit is equipped with the latest technology,
and can even detect body temperatures to automatically adjust the lights, heat,
and audio devices in the apartment
Alex explains that the ultimate goal is to make an apartment,
that will keep its owners happy and satisfied
In another room, Alex’s wife, Charlotte,
is showing the snazzy functions of the large mirror in the living room to another new tenant,
named Emily
It’s voice-activated and can quickly turn into artwork on command
Meanwhile, Alex is welcoming another new tenant, who was a former soldier
He’s been all over the world on his tours of duty, and he wants to settle in someplace permanently
The soldier asks Alex why he picked the slaughterhouse to renovate;
and he answers he just had a feeling that this was the right place
The soldier also shares that his father used to work at the slaughterhouse,
so living there felt like the right thing to do as well
On the way out of the office, Charlotte comes in,
and informs her husband that their daughter had thrown another tantrum in school
She heads out soon to fetch the daughter
A historian from the conservation society comes up to Alex,
and admonishes him for renovating the slaughterhouse
He says that the violence that occurred in the building’s past, does not deserve to be commemorated
However, he was forced to award the building as a historic site for preservation
Later that day, they throw a party to celebrate the opening of the building
The footballer attends the small party, and locks eyes with the pretty blonde Emily
Alex and his wife are ecstatic that years of their hard work have finally come to fruition,
and their apartment building is a success
Their daughter seems to be in a better mood now, and she plays with the footballer’s dog
While the footballer strikes up a conversation with Emily,
the dog leads the daughter back inside the building
She sees the creepy boy shown at the start of the film, waving at her
So she curiously follows him
Meanwhile, the soldier does not join the party
He’s back at his own apartment, looking at a series of old photographs of his father,
as an employee at the slaughterhouse decades before
In one of the photos, the creepy boy can be seen with the soldier’s father
Covering the walls of the soldier’s apartment
are newspaper clippings and photographs of the slaughterhouse
He’s speaking into a voice recorder, musing about the slaughterhouse murders that occurred there
The soldier mentions that the killer had stored his victims’ body parts in the slaughterhouse,
before the police finally caught up to him
The soldier is researching the case, and he moved into the newly-renovated apartment building,
so he could dig deeper
He’s particularly interested in knowing what happened to the boy,
who had disappeared shortly after his father jumped from the window
The boy leads the daughter to the basement, and she is about to go in when her mother finds her
The daughter explains that the boy led her there,
but her mother dismisses her as just making up imaginary friends
But later the TV turns on in the daughter’s room, which shows the creepy boy looking at her
She tells him to leave her alone; but a moment later, he’s sitting in front of her
The daughter screams and her parents rush into her room
They let her sleep in their bed to console her
Charlotte commands the lights to turn off;
and right before she closes the door, she sees the swing in her daughter’s bedroom is moving,
as if somebody had recently sat on it
On the other side, the historian is spending the night in one of the apartments,
because he couldn’t get an earlier flight
He lays down on the bed to sleep, but the TV keeps turning on despite his voice commands
The screen is showing a grainy black-and-white video of pigs being herded to slaughter,
and then graphic images of animal carcasses
The historian cannot take the inconvenience any longer, so he gets dressed and leaves
He orders a cab, but he cannot get the main doors open
Suddenly, the lights start flickering off in the lobby,
and the TV screen is showing the words, “I want you” in bold black letters
The historian runs and finds himself inside the basement
The room is dark so he opens his phone’s flashlight
He gets brief flashes of a slaughterhouse pen and several cows
Suddenly, he is treated like an animal, and is forced into a holding pen
The historian passes out and collapses on the floor
The next morning, Emily is at the gym working out
A TV screen is in front of her, and she’s using it to video call with her aunt
She reassures her aunt that she’s safe from her stalker in her new apartment building
When she ends the call, somebody begins banging on the gym’s door
Emily opens it, but there’s no one outside
The soldier finds the daughter speaking with the boy, although he can’t see him
The daughter tells him the boy’s name, and the soldier finds this interesting,
because it’s the same name as the slaughterhouse owner’s son who disappeared
Charlotte spends her morning in the clock tower painting
The clock tower has been untouched by the renovations,
and remains largely the same as when it was shown at the start of the film
Charlotte finds a piece of paper, depicting a child’s drawings of people dying
Then she gets a call from her husband asking for something, so she goes back downstairs
The soldier starts to believe that the boy is an apparition living within the building’s walls
He goes up to the clock tower, and snoops around the wooden cabinets
The soldier finds a tin box, with a necklace and a piece of paper inside
The necklace is a locket containing a picture of the boy and his mother
The paper is actually a newspaper clipping,
announcing the suicide of the slaughterhouse owner, the boy’s father
At that moment, Charlotte returns to the clock tower, and asks the soldier what he’s doing
He reluctantly admits to her that he’s investigating the rumors that
the slaughterhouse owner was a serial killer, who kept his victims’ bodies in the building
It turns out, the soldier’s father was an employee here who had mysteriously disappeared,
and he wants to know if his father was one of the killer’s victims
This is all news to Charlotte
She did not know about the building’s dark history
So she confronts her husband about it,
and he confesses that he kept the truth from her, because he did not want her to be disturbed
But the killings had made the building cheap and affordable,
and it was too good a deal to pass up, so Alex bought it and never told his wife about what happened
Later on, the footballer is at the gym
The music from his phone starts glitching, as well as the TV screen behind him
He hears a scream from outside and rushes to open the door
But to his surprise, Emily is there
This presents her with an opportunity to ask the footballer out on a date
He happily agrees
Alex and his wife hear their daughter talking to the boy again through her bedroom door
They both think that she’s just talking to her imaginary friend
Alex suddenly passes out, and he dreams of a farm and a cow
Once Alex is recovered, the couple talk to their daughter about her friend
She explains the boy appears to her through the TV screens
Charlotte also scolds her daughter for going up to the clock tower,
as evidenced by the child’s drawing she saw up there
But the daughter denies that she ever went there, and she blames the boy instead
That night, the soldier is deep into his research,
when he notices something weird in the picture,
from one of the articles about the slaughterhouse owner’s suicide
The focus of the picture is the creepy boy, who’s standing between two police officers
But at the top of the picture,
looking out the clock tower window is another boy who looks exactly like him
This solidifies another theory for the soldier,
that the boy’s soul had split into two because of his trauma
Alex wakes up in the middle of the night
He hears the faint sounds of slaughterhouse animals
He steps out into the hallway, and sees one of the TV screens flashing a video of sheep
On another wall,
a TV screen shows the slaughterhouse owner ordering his son to go into the slaughterhouse
Then the screen shows a puddle of blood
Alex’s vision is interrupted by the footballer and Emily,
entering the building after a great dinner date
When he looks behind him, the blood and the slaughterhouse owner are nowhere to be seen
When Emily goes back to her apartment alone, she hears a man’s voice in her bedroom
Thinking that it’s her stalker again, she quickly grabs a knife, and flings open the bedroom door
But there is no one there
Relieved, she washes her face on the kitchen faucet, so she can freshen up
However, the garbage disposal inexplicably turns on, and chews up her long hair
She is now stuck, as the sink fills up with water from the tap
Emily panics and hurriedly voice commands the disposal to stop, but it doesn’t
She forcefully yanks her hair out;
and the momentum causes her to step back, and hit her head on the kitchen island
Emily collapses on the floor, with blood oozing from her head
The next day, the footballer is working out again,
when he sees a vision of an animal carcass hanging suspended from the ceiling
Later, the footballer chats to Emily through the TV screen
He receives a reply, saying that she’s feeling a hangover from the drinks last night
He then offers to bring over some aspirin to her apartment
But he doesn’t know Emily is already dead, and someone else is talking to him through the TV
On the other side, Alex is getting one of his nasty headaches
Charlotte is concerned for him, and asks if he is taking his medication
He replies that none of his pills are working
Alex decides to rest in their apartment, while Charlotte goes up to the clock tower to paint
The daughter is bored playing with her toys,
and asks her father’s permission to play with the footballer’s dog
He agrees
Charlotte drops her paintbrush
When she bends to pick it up, she sees a vision of the boy standing in the clock tower
Alex starts chopping a slab of beef meat
He gets a dazed look on his face
He calls his daughter and instructs her on how to properly cut it
Later, Alex starts talking to someone unseen
He describes the work he’d done to the building, and how he’d like the person to see it
Right then a vase breaks in the living room, and Alex gets angry at his daughter
The footballer arrives to get his dog, and sees that Alex is not in a good mental state
He calls the daughter to his side; but she sees the boy again waving at her, so she follows him
The footballer doesn’t notice because he’s calming Alex down
Alex is in tears, talking incoherently, and asking for his father
Alex knocks the unsuspecting footballer unconscious
He hangs him upside down with a rope
Meanwhile Charlotte conveys her concerns to the soldier
He tells her about the missing son of the slaughterhouse owner,
and how he holds the key to the secrets of his father
The soldier continues explaining his theory, explaining that the boy had a vision of himself dying
When his vision came to life, he dodged death at the last second, and his soul split into two
The mirror version of himself stayed behind in the slaughterhouse,
waiting for the day that he and his other half will reunite and die together as one
If anything stands in their way, they will hurt them
The soldier also realizes that Alex may be the other half of the boy
He recalls from his research that
the symptoms of the split body rejecting its current form before the reunification,
include headaches and passing out, similar to the symptoms Alex is recently experiencing
Elsewhere, the boy leads the daughter up to the clock tower
He shows her a closet where they can hide
Alex dazedly looks for his daughter
The soldier ventures downstairs to the basement
Inside he sees the historian’s dead body
A TV flickers to life, and it’s showing a video of his father tied up in the slaughterhouse
The owner comes in with his son,
and instructs him to kill the soldier’s father–a grotesque birthday gift for the boy
The boy does as he was told, and slices the soldier’s father to death,
then runs his body parts through a processor
At the end of the video, police sirens can be heard
Charlotte goes to the footballer’s apartment, and sees his bloody corpse hanging from the ceiling
She calls the police and encounters her husband in the hallway
She senses that something’s not right with him, and she slowly backs away
The soldier comes out of nowhere and attacks Alex
He tells Charlotte to run
But Alex stabs the soldier in the side and gains the upper hand
Charlotte hurries to the clock tower, but the door is locked
It suddenly swings open; and the daughter steps out of the closet
But Alex arrives too
He grabs his daughter and jumps with her through the window as his father did
But that’s just the daughter’s version, and she realizes what is going to happen to her;
so she tells her mother that Alex is coming to kill her
Alex stabs the soldier
He hears the approaching police sirens, and he hurries up the clock tower
Charlotte is there guarding their daughter
He easily knocks his wife to the ground, and grabs the daughter
but he’s interrupted by the creepy boy stepping out of the closet
Finally, the two mirror halves of their soul are together
The boy looks at Charlotte and the daughter, saying that love won’t die
Right then Alex embraces the boy, his wandering soul;
and they jump out of the window, finally reuniting and dying as one
The soldier survives his injuries, and Charlotte and her daughter walk out of the building
The movie ends with the daughter looking up the window,
and seeing her mirror version looking down from the tower window,
which implies the start of a new cycle
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