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Today I’ll show you a horror-mystery film: “The Valdemar Legacy, Part 1 ”
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a secretary rushing into her boss’ office because of an urgent situation
She informs the boss that there’s trouble with the Valdemar mansion
The mansion’s pieces of furniture are up for auction;
but the former appraiser they assigned, failed to give an update
Therefore, the secretary receives a call from the chairman,
who orders her to provide a full report of the estate being valued and cataloged by Monday
The boss then checks their timeline,
and realizes the former appraiser lost contact with them 20 days ago
They suspect he ran off with an antique, and sold it by himself
So they have no choice but to contact Luisa, another appraiser under the creative department
Meanwhile, Luisa rests at home with her cat until her doorbell rings
She receives flowers, a gift, and later, a portfolio about the Valdemar mansion
In frustration, she goes into her living room,
and confronts her boss through the phone,
because she knows it’s him purposely sending her gifts before assigning her the task
The boss convinces Luisa to take the missing appraiser’s task
but Luisa declines the offer at first,
but eventually accepts it after her boss promises her demands
After that, Luisa calls her mother to cancel their meet-up for tomorrow because of work
Then she sleeps on the couch;
and the portfolio on the table flips to the Valdemar mansion’s photo page,
where a faded woman appears on the window
The following day, Luisa travels to the Valdemar mansion,
where she meets the housekeeper outside the mansion’s perimeter
The housekeeper brings Luisa to the estate,
and opens the rusty gate to let Luisa inside the front yard
The Valdemar mansion is beautiful despite its old age
The housekeeper bids safety to Luisa before entering,
and tells her to say goodbye first before leaving,
because the former appraiser left the place without goodbyes
Luisa notes this, and gives thanks to the housekeeper
She walks into the front yard, and finds the grave plaque of Leonor,
the late owner of the Valdemar mansion
Afterward, she enters the estate,
and finds the whole place far from being cataloged by the former appraiser
Inside, she excitedly captures an antique chest, because she’ll have to restore it at her home
She sets down the camera on the floor, and checks the chest’s contents
The activated camera on the ground captures a woman whispering and walking towards Luisa,
despite being in an empty dark corridor
Luisa explores the house further
She puts down her stuff to budge the attic’s stuck door
but the door opens by itself as she faces it again
She reaches the damp and dusty attic, with rotten wooden pillars
A strong odor unnerves her from a stretcher behind a cracked wall, as she explores further
She removes the plastic covering the stretcher, and finds the mission appraiser’s decomposing body
She shrieks upon seeing his corpse, and at the beast suddenly appearing at the end of the corridor
She hides within the nearby casket, and closes the lid
She lies quietly, when her phone unexpectedly rings in her pocket
She tries to grab it quickly; but it slips deeper into her pants
The beast hears the noise, and opens the lid
It almost catches her; but she rapidly kicks its face and escapes
She runs downstairs and into the hall
At the end of the corridor, she knocks on the window to catch the housekeeper’s attention,
who’s trimming the grass in the front yard
But he can’t hear her
so she searches for a weapon in the kitchen
Luckily, the housekeeper knocks on the window, telling her to go to the woodshed
She runs to the woodshed, and climbs the woodpiles
The housekeeper opens the barred window, and helps Luisa climb out
The housekeeper assists Luisa in boarding the Ferrari truck
In the driver’s seat, the truck driver scolds the housekeeper for allowing Luisa to enter the house
Afterward, Luisa faints as they drive away from the mansion
It’s rainy outside a remote building, when Luisa strangely wakes up in an unfamiliar bedroom
The truck driver enters to give her food, and makes her stay until morning to pass the rain
She asks for a phone call
but there’s no line or signal due to the downpour
She then asks about a body on a stretcher, when he retrieved her belongings from the mansion
but he said no
Meanwhile, the company chairman fetches the detective from the airport,
because Luisa disappeared with no trace
However, a man in a suit follows their car for unknown reasons
The chairman explains to the detective that
he intends the two appraisers’ disappearances hidden from the press and police,
just for reputation’s sake
The chairman drops off the detective at a train station,
to meet the Valdemar foundation president for the investigation
Then, the chairman receives a call from the boss,
telling him that Luisa’s mother is looking for her
The chairman tells him to lie about it for the meantime, as they deal with the search
The detective enters a train car to see the president alone
They introduce themselves; and the president clarifies their goal:
For him to find the new missing appraiser Luisa, while she is to get the mansion valued for auction
Afterward, she narrates the Valdemar mansion’s history,
based on Lazaro and Leonor Valdemar’s detailed diary;
and the past unravels into the detective’s mind
A hundred years ago, Leonor met Lazaro, who was in prison for an alcohol-related violation
Leonor helped him rehabilitate
Leonor ran an orphanage, while Lazaro was a photographer
Leonor was prohibited from bearing a child due to health concerns
so they worked hard to earn money, to be able to adopt one of their orphans someday
At first, the couple and the orphans were happy in their mansion,
until Lazaro got bored with family photography
So with the butler’s help, Lazaro experimented with optical illusion:
diffusion, black backgrounds, and double exposure, which led them to discover “physic photography”
It was as if they were taking photos of ghosts; but it was only a trick
Besides the mechanical floating table,
Lazaro fooled the bereaved families participating in his séance scheme with physic photography
While enacting the table trick, the butler would capture a photo,
revealing a ghostly deceased member in the image
Their séance was a success that the couple became among the wealthy folks in town
One night, Leonor achieved coitus with Lazaro, despite being prohibited from pregnancy
It was a typical day of séance work, until the journalist caught their little scam
So he blackmailed the couple,
wanting to join their scheme to receive a handsome payment, or else he’d exposed they were a fraud
Leonor defended their purpose,
saying the earned money from their séance was for the orphans’ better life
But the journalist only wanted money for himself
Lazaro was through with the journalist’s nosiness and selfishness,
so he dragged him out of the house, and declined the offer
The news exposing the couple’s fraud séance spread like wildfire after two days;
and the media’s influential power caused most people to avoid and distrust them
Although, there were still some who kept their confidence in the two
The police captured Lazaro; and Leonor was heartbroken as they dragged him away
After two days, Leonor’s colleague visited to console her
Leonor shared that she sent their butler to learn about Lazaro’s status
The butler eventually arrived home, and said that Lazaro was detained until the trial
but he still asked what Leonor’s been doing, despite his dire situation
The butler apologized because he couldn’t give Lazaro his medicine for his delicate liver,
which would be vulnerable to even a drop of liquor
She’d been secretly giving the medicine, because Lazaro refused to take treatment
So Leonor visited the gentlemen’s club
She approached the superintendent dining with the journalist,
and addressed Lazaro’s liver treatment refusal
But the superintendent reasoned that
the police physician decided to prevent the risk of unknown items brought from outside,
which might lead a convict to commit suicide
However, Leonor demanded to speak with the police physician; but the superintendent got offended
However, he still told her to send a doctor’s approval letter to the dispensary
but Leonor knew it would take longer
The journalist intervened,
saying that it’s not the police’s fault because they two keep secrets from each other
Then, Leonor read the newspaper headline, questioning her ability to run an orphanage
So she defended that she’d been saving orphans from misery;
and it was cruel for the press to destroy their name
The journalist stood to stop Leonor from her speech
but she only slapped him for his audacity after blackmailing Lazaro
The superintendent intervened to de-escalate the tension,
and asked the guards to drag Leonor out of the club
While commotion occurred in the room,
the magician was getting his shoes cleaned by a shoe-shiner behind the curtain
He listened intently to Leonor and the superintendent’s conversation outside,
and asked the shoe-shiner where Lazaro’s imprisonment location was
Afterward, the magician visited Lazaro in prison,
where he told the guard that he was Lazaro’s lawyer
The guard believed him, and gave him two minutes to speak with him
The magician entered Lazaro’s cell,
and introduced himself as someone, who could help him be freed from prison
However, Lazaro doubted that the magician could do anything about his serious case
but the magician convinced Lazaro to trust him, and that he would be home in time with his wife
In two months, the magician devised a plan to imprison the journalist to ruin his credibility,
since he caused Lazaro’s imprisonment
First, he hired a courtesan to lure and seduce the journalist,
which led the two to get drunk and get busy in bed
However, the courtesan was not drunk but wide awake,
and imprinted the journalist’s apartment key in a lump of clay to duplicate it
Second, they spread rumors that circulated quickly among the people
The journalist was summoned to his own home,
because his neighbors called the police, when they heard a woman screaming in his apartment
The police ordered the journalist to open the apartment,
where they found the courtesan disheveled, gagged, and tied up on the journalist’s bed
The journalist defended himself, and even insulted the courtesan
But because of the scandalous crime,
the people lost their trust in the journalist as he was imprisoned
Lazaro was liberated in no time, thanks to the magician
The butler fetched Lazaro from the police station;
and while en route to the Valdemar mansion,
the butler shared that Leonor couldn’t come because of her condition
Lazaro smiled, as he knew what the butler meant
Upon arriving home, Lazaro found Leonor blind-folded, and playing with the orphans
He firstly cautiously approached and hugged the orphans, then later embraced Leonor
Leonor knew Lazaro’s facial features, and removed her blindfold
Excitement ran through her; and they shared a wonderful kiss, as they reunited once again
Leonor made Lazaro touch her stomach, because she was bearing their first child
However, the happiness was temporary, as Leonor suddenly fainted
Lazaro carried Leonor on their way home, and called for a doctor
The doctor diagnosed Leonor’s situation as miscarriage,
and instructed Leonor to rest first to prevent worsening her condition
Months passed, and soon it was winter
The colleague visited Leonor to give her reports for the orphans’ new adoptive parents
While talking in the tearoom,
the colleague noticed the magician stepping out of the Ferrari coach, parked in the front mansion
She warned Leonor to keep her husband far from the magician,
because he was expelled from many countries for practicing dark magic
Meanwhile, the magician approached Lazaro, who was chopping timbers
When Lazaro saw him, he immediately gave gratitude for freeing him from prison
The magician, however, didn’t waste a second, and told Lazaro his intention
He helped Lazaro be released from prison,
because he needed his help to perform a ritual that could give answers to all questions
Lazaro thought that the magician wanted to achieve great power
But the magician denied this claim,
and reasoned he sought knowledge to help alleviate poverty, cure severe illnesses,
and many more, including Leonor being able to carry a child
Lazaro doubted this because first,
he reminded him of his fake séance as the newspaper described;
and second, he understood God’s plan for them
Still, the magician believed that Lazaro was a link,
and unknowingly made a connection with the beyond
The magician elaborated to Lazaro that
the ritual must be performed during the eclipse on the upcoming Saturday
Lazaro said he would think about it for a day before deciding
Later, the magician and Leonor’s colleague left the Valdemar mansion
However, when Lazaro shared the magician’s offer to Leonor,
she got mad at him, because Lazaro considered the proposal on Saturday,
which was also the day they would bring the orphans to their adoptive parents
For days, Lazaro attempted to make peace with Leonor
but she didn’t budge
Then, at night the magician even sent a book to Lazaro,
containing the benefits and methods pre-ritual for Saturday
Lazaro stayed all night reading, and praying for his wish to be granted
It was Saturday morning; and the butler woke up Lazaro from his study table
Leonor was already escorting the orphans inside the coach,
to be brought into the train station outside the house
So Lazaro then decided he’d join the ritual
That night, Lazaro invited the magician and the disciples to his home;
while Leonor successfully introduced the orphans to their new adoptive parents at the train station
On the Valdemar mansion’s third floor, they formed a circle
Amidst the ritual, the magician placed a piece of paper,
containing the disciples’ wishes to solve their problems
The eclipse occurred; and the magician chanted
The paper floated in the air and disintegrated,
where the ashes dissipated in space, causing the ground to open
However, as the ritual transpired, Lazaro weakened and fainted
The formed circle was broken; and the open floor summoned a demon
The demon reached the ground, and possessed one of the disciples
The possessed disciple burned in flames,
turned into a stone, crumbled, and got scattered in the wind
The demon left the third floor in fire, and searched for a shell to take over
It settled over the buried corpse, where it taught the maggot to regenerate the corpse’s body
Right then, the corpse became a living creature, but still looked dead
It turns out, it’s the same beast that caused Luisa to escape the mansion
at the beginning of the film
After that, the magician and the rest of the disciples left Lazaro on the ground;
while they escaped for their lives
While they left, the magician called the butler to save his master from the fire
The butler ordered the maid and a housekeeper to carry Lazaro onto a chair;
while he telegrammed Leonora to return home quickly
Leonora received the message immediately, and rode a Ferrari horse to run back home
She crossed paths with the escaping disciples,
and found firefighters putting out the fire from the mansion
Leonora entered the mansion, and searched for Lazaro, who’s unconscious and bleeding on the floor
She called the butler to retrieve the medicine,
and injected a dose to Lazaro because his liver was inflamed
Lazaro eventually woke up, as the drug took effect
Meanwhile, they heard a groan from below;
and the butler checked on it, while Leonora guarded the weakened Lazaro
He descended the stairs, and found the beast eating the maid in the kitchen
He attempted an escape, but was caught up by the beast
The beast arrived on the third floor, where Lazaro and Leonora stayed
Leonora unexpectedly shook her head, because the beast was talking to her
She momentarily fought it, until she froze in place and her eyes whitened
Leonora, obviously not herself, spoke and delivered a message,
saying they shouldn’t have explored something that shouldn’t be known in the first place
Lazaro tried to stop the beast from approaching them
but the beast only strangled him, and pinned him on the wall
However, Leonora shrieked, and somehow managed to talk to the beast
The creature backed out; and it and Leonora conversed differently
Leonora returned to her usual self afterward; and realization struck Lazaro
Leonora was the link all along and not him,
and she was the only one, who could stop the creatures from interfering with Lazaro
In exchange for Lazaro’s peaceful life, Leonora joined the demon below
It turns out, it’s Leonora who appeared in the portfolio mansion photo,
and during Luisa’s visit to the mansion
Lazaro attempted to bring Leonora back countless times, but to no avail
The movie ends with Lazaro carrying Leonora’s lifeless body, and burying it in front of their house
The movie ends in the present time,
when the president and the detective conclude their storytelling,
because it’s time for them to focus on finding the missing Luisa
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