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Today I'll show you a supernatural horror film: "The Curse"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a documentary playing
The footage has been barred from being publicly shown, due to its gruesome content
It revolves around a paranormal writer and researcher,
who has spent his life chronicling supernatural occurrences in Japan
During the filming of the documentary, his house burnt down, and his wife was found dead
What's more, the writer mysteriously disappeared, and was never seen again
The documentary footage shot by the writer's cameraman,
holds the truth to the circumstances surrounding his wife's death and his disappearance
The documentary begins in 2002, two years before the fateful events
According to the documentary, the writer went to visit a young housewife,
who kept hearing babies' voices around her neighbor's house
She reported that a mother and son had moved in next door, and were acting strangely
the writer visited the neighbors' house next
The front yard was messy and overgrown;
and when he knocked on the door,
a ragged woman with dark circles under her eyes, came to open the door
She was rude and shouted at the writer, before slamming the door in his face
As he walked away, he didn't notice the creepy son peeking from the window
The footage at that exact moment caught a strange sound;
so the writer consulted with an expert to decipher it
The expert did a spectrographic analysis,
and determined that the sound captured was the voices of several babies crying
After that, the writer returned to the housewife's house;
and she told them that the mother and son next door had moved out
She never heard baby voices again, after they left
When they visited the now-empty house,
they discovered the bodies of several dead pigeons in the front yard
Five days later however, the housewife and her daughter died in a mysterious car crash
In the following, the writer investigated a TV variety program in 2003
A psychic was a guest in one of the episodes;
and he tested the clairvoyant abilities of 10 Japanese children,
by letting them draw what they think is the symbol on a paper hidden inside a tube
Only one girl got the double circle symbol right
Her name is Kana; and she got the next four test questions right
However, she failed to get the fifth question
The next test was making water materialize inside a beaker by concentrating
Kana was able to make droplets of water; and a strand of hair appeared out of nowhere
An expert analyzed it, and identified the water as having come from a river or lake
Moreover, the strand of hair may also be from a newborn baby
Since she appeared on the TV program, Kana began getting sick
the writer visited her at home, and talked to her concerned mother
They are worried that Kana may have exhausted her powers too much
On the other side, the unaired footage from a TV show was found,
revealing that an actress visited a popular haunted shrine with two program hosts
They found some dead trees with dark liquid, oozing from the trunks
the actress then heard a strange male voice;
and she doubled over in pain, tortured by an invisible force
Later, the actress attended a talk show with the writer
She talked about her disturbing experience in the shrine,
and described the man's voice as calling for her
The same psychic from earlier appeared, wearing an eccentric tinfoil hat and jacket
He nervously ambled toward the stage, and stared at the actress
He then suddenly attacked her, and shouted about pigeons
With many questions unsolved, the writer talked to the director of the TV show,
that the actress had guested in
He gave him a copy of the footage shot in the shrine,
and revealed that he had edited a part out right before she fell down,
because he didn't want to scare her
the writer was astounded by this discovery, and immediately showed the footage to the actress
The video showed that she started saying that she saw so many apparitions around her
Behind her near the dead trees, was a scary and unidentifiable figure
The actress also revealed that after she visited the shrine,
she began unconsciously drawing strange loops
Meanwhile, Kana's behavior worsened
One night while having dinner with her parents, she lost consciousness;
and the plates on the table flew off on their own
The variety show featured the psychic next
The host visited his house, and saw that the walls are covered with foil from top to bottom
Papers with strange markings are also scattered around the house
The psychic warned that ectoplasmic worms are all around them
In December 2003, Kana vanished mysteriously
Her parents told the writer that in the weeks leading up to her disappearance,
a man wearing a tinfoil hat kept visiting Kana
But the girl assured her parents that the man meant no harm
Left on her bed was one of the papers, with strange markings from the psychic's place
One of the markings looked similar to the loops, which the actress kept drawing
To confirm his suspicions, the writer went to the psychic's house
The psychic let him in,
and explained that the tinfoil protects him from the ectoplasmic worms, that can eat people
According to him, Kana was eaten by the worms; and he no longer knew where she is
He suddenly grabbed the writer's bag, and plucked the paper found at Kana's house
He then said that he saw a vision of a blue building with a parking lot next to it
The psychic proceeded to draw a map of his vision,
and said that the worms were coming out of the building
He shouted the name Kagutaba, and began freaking out
The cameraman informed the writer that something weird happened with the footage of the psychic
The video feed appeared damaged;
and little faces resembling alien-like creatures appeared on the footage
The faces are also similar to the symbol,
drawn by Kana when she was on the tv show,
as well as the figure caught on camera behind the actress in the shrine
the actress called the writer, and told him she had been tying knots with yarn in her sleep
The knots look like the strange loops she had also been drawing
To get to the bottom of what's happening to her,
he set up a camera to film her, while she's sleeping
The next morning, the actress and the writer reviewed the footage
It showed her waking up in the middle of the night, and going out to her terrace
She then went back to sleep and woke up the next day, but with no memory of what she did last night
It turned out, she was tying knots again, but this time using an electric cord
the actress also reported hearing banging noises from the apartment above
So they went up to the aforementioned apartment,
and asked the girl living there, if she was the one banging on the floor
But she was confused and said no
Next, the psychic's directions led the writer to a blue building, where lives a man named Osawa
There were pigeons on his veranda; and his neighbor told the writer that Osawa was acting strangely
There were even banging sounds coming from his apartment as well
the writer and his cameraman observed Osawa's coming and going,
and witnessed as he grabbed one of the pigeons perched on his veranda
He went back inside his apartment, holding the pigeon
But Osawa disappeared shortly after
the writer also took the tape of the actress sleeping,
and had the sound analyzed by the same expert he consulted earlier
He processed the footage, and isolated a voice chanting the name Kagutaba
When the actress listened to the processed audio,
she remarked that it sounded like the voice she heard in the shrine
the writer began calling experts to unearth Kagutaba's identity
He finally tracked down an old man, who identified Kagutaba as a demon,
plaguing a small countryside village
He further explained that Kagutaba was mentioned
in a centuries-old story of a sorcerer from the village,
who summoned the demon
It's said that Kagutaba rebelled against the sorcerer's wishes,
and the sorcerer cast another spell to lock the demon underground
Because of that, the villagers had to perform the binding ritual yearly,
to keep Kagutaba imprisoned
They would often use dogs in that ritual
In 19 78, the village was demolished; and the site where it once stood, was now under a dam
To gain more information, the writer tracked down a videotape of the ritual
It depicted a priest and his daughter at the shrine, performing a dance with claps and bows
The daughter was wearing a mask and a kimono; while the priest was holding a sickle
He feigned hitting the daughter with a sickle; and she fell to the ground screaming
Then she was possessed by the demon Kagutaba,
who the villagers said was angry because of the dam being constructed
Shortly afterward, the priest and his wife died of a sickness
The daughter is revealed to be none other than the neighbor mother
shown at the beginning of the film,
who lived in the house with the baby voices
the writer further found out that the mother now moved out to her family's house
Outside her house are ropes tied in the same loops as the actress's
Just like last time, the mother was very rude, and kicked the writer out of her property
He walked around and saw sickles, nailed to the doorways of the houses nearby
There were also a lot of dogs being kept in the neighborhood
He interviewed a neighbor, who had known the mother since she was a girl
She told him that the mother had gone to a nursing school before
but after the ritual, her behavior changed; and she became unstable
The mother even told people that she heard a god's voice during the ritual
the writer asked the neighbor about the demon Kagutaba and its curse
but her face went blank; and she walked away
In January 2004, the writer went to the nursing school, where the mother studied
There he found out that she worked in an abortion clinic;
and there were rumors that she took the aborted embryos home
Later on, the writer met with a grief-stricken the actress
She shared that her upstairs neighbor hanged herself, along with six other people in a park
The nooses they used to hang themselves,
were similar to the loops that the actress kept tying in her sleep
Terrified, the actress left her apartment
the writer was kind enough to invite her into his home
It is revealed that Osawa was one of the six people,
who hanged themselves with the upstairs neighbor
the writer returned to the blue building, and talked to the male neighbor of Osawa
He recounted that Osawa was a nice man before
but he suddenly changed, when a female and her young son moved next door
Osawa had complained to her about the baby voices he kept hearing
the writer suddenly realized that the female neighbor he was talking about,
was actually the same mother
There was now a pattern of the mother's neighbors hearing baby voices,
and then dying under mysterious circumstances
Meanwhile, the actress got settled in the writer's house, and immediately bonded with his wife
While she was cooking lunch for the wife, her face suddenly went blank
Pigeon after pigeon started slamming into the window; and the actress fell to the floor unconscious
Later, they discovered that the pigeons died upon impact
Trying to connect all the pieces together, the writer and the actress visited the psychic
They showed him the tape of the mother; and he recoiled in horror when he saw her face
It dawned on the writer that the ectoplasmic worms that the psychic was raving about,
could be the face of the demon Kagutaba
With no answer from the psychic,
the actress decided that she wanted to go to the dam, to perform the ritual
She was afraid that she would die next; so she was desperate to try anything to save herself
the writer reluctantly agreed to her plan
He convinced the terrified psychic to go with them
Together, they drove to the site of the former village
When they passed the neighborhood where the mother lives,
the writer noticed that the dogs outside the houses were all gone
They arrived at the dam
the actress and the writer took a boat, and rowed to the middle
She started the ritual, by using a sickle to cut a long white piece of cloth
Then, she performed the special bow and clap
When her head rose up, she told the writer that she felt a lot better
The psychic and the cameraman both stayed behind at the shore
The psychic began panicking, and hysterically shouted at the two to immediately go back,
because the ectoplasmic worms will eat them
He then ran into the forest for life
the writer chased after the psychic
They went deeper into the forest
the actress and the cameraman got into the car,
and were instructed by the writer to go ahead and leave
On the way back, she fell asleep
Night fell, and the psychic was still agitated
They stumbled upon the village dogs' dead bodies
Apparently, they were disemboweled as part of a ritual
What's weirder, a rope was tied around the area, with feathers hanging from it
Right then, a groaning noise came from the actress; and the cameraman became worried about her
He stopped the car, and went to check on her
She screamed and fled into the forest
The cameraman followed her
The psychic led the writer to a shrine
He uttered Kana's name and shrieked
When the writer turned on the camera and pointed it at the shrine,
he saw a vision of Kana's spirit sitting on the forest floor, surrounded by the corpses of fetuses
Meanwhile, the cameraman found the actress writhing on the ground
All of a sudden, she stopped and woke up, appearing to be fine, as if nothing happened
They took the actress and the psychic to the hospital for treatment
Afterward, the writer and the cameraman went to the mother's house for further investigation
They entered it, only to see the house in a mess
Several pigeons were wandering inside
Upstairs, they found more knotted ropes, and the dead body of the mother
She had hanged herself
Behind her were dozens of Kagutaba masks and dead pigeons
the writer also found the son sitting on the floor in shock
Beside him was the dead body of Kana
The police were called to the scene
the writer and his wife decided to adopt the son,
who was discovered to have not been the biological child of the mother
Meanwhile, the actress made a full recovery, and stopped experiencing hallucinations
However, the psychic was committed to a mental institution
the writer looked further into the myth of the demon Kagutaba and the village
He found a scroll, depicting the process of the ritual to summon Kagutaba
The villagers sacrificed baby monkeys, slaughtering them like how the village dogs were slaughtered
He then speculated that ever since the mother was possessed by Kagutaba,
she became hellbent on her mission to free the demon, by performing the original summoning ritual
Instead of baby monkeys or dogs, the mother used the aborted fetuses she got from the clinic
She then kidnapped Kana and force-fed her the fetuses; and used her as a medium to summon the demon
The deaths of her former neighbors and the people around her,
could be attributed to the curse of the demon
The full truth could never come to light now, since the mother had killed herself
the writer finished the documentary in April 2004
Days later, his house burned down with his wife inside; and he also disappeared
The psychic also escaped from the mental institution, and was found dead inside the sewer
A month later, a camera was sent to a publishing company by the writer
Inside was a cassette tape
It showed the psychic visiting the writer's home, right after escaping the institution
He was mumbling about hearing Kana's voice in his head, and that the demon is still alive
the writer tried to assure him that Kagutaba's curse had ended
but the psychic just ran inside the house, and grabbed the adopted son
He held a rock in his hand, and bashed the boy in the head with it;
while the writer and his wife tried to stop him
However, the son suddenly rose; and his face looked like the demon
It then became clear that the mother's summoning ritual was successful;
and the demon now inhabited the boy's body
He stood motionless in the middle of the room; and Kana's spirit briefly appeared
Then the wife and psychic got possessed by the demon
The psychic hit the writer with the rock
He took the son's hand, and walked out of the house with him
But the psychic was found dead inside the sewer afterward
the writer's wife doused herself with gasoline,
and lit herself on fire, causing the house to burn down
The movie ends with the writer before his disappearance,
struggling to get up and screaming his wife's name
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