Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you a horror-drama film:
"The Tag Along, Part 3, Devil Fish"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins in 2007 when Mr Abuse fishes in Lantan Lake. Shortly, Mr Abuse eats his freshly
caught fish with his friends. Suddenly, a demon asks if the fish tastes nice; and then its face
emerges from the cooked fish. It controls Mr Abuse's friends to vomit uncontrollably,
and hit their heads on a rock. Then the demon from the fish transfers into Mr Abuse's body to spread
darkness. And while inside Mr Abuse's body, the demon calls "Kai," the name of a psychic's son.
Meanwhile, a young Kai wakes up, and immediately tells his psychic father,
Cheng, about the big monster looking for Master Tiger. Cheng comforts Kai, and assures that
he's going to protect him from the monster. Meanwhile, the news broadcast about Mr Abuse
strangling his own six kids to death, while their heads were covered with plastic bags.
The following day in the temple, Cheng performs an exorcism to a teen. Two students, Fatty and Hao,
secretly record the whole rite behind a door. The rite has finished; and Cheng's assistant
catches Fatty and Hao intruding a private session. but Hao reminds him they called
and made an appointment yesterday, to film about spirits and Master Tiger.
So the assistant tours and briefs the two students with Master Tiger's Origin in front of a mural.
The mural depicts a general and Master Tiger, defeating the demon's boss "Archdemon."
In 16 69, a general brought Master Tiger home from China to Taiwan, to fight against the plaguing
demons in Lantan. Master Tiger, however, only sealed the evil Archdemon; but never killed it.
Hao eavesdrops on Cheng's business with his psychic friend, via his listening gadget.
According to the friend, Mr Abuse insists on seeing Master Tiger. But Cheng declines to comply,
because it's been a long time since Master Tiger possessed him. However, the friend convinces
him to try, because he's his only hope. So Cheng examines Mr Abuse, who's wrapped in an enchanted
blanket inside a car, and concludes that he's possessed by a demon. Then Cheng plans to
kill the demon by frying it tomorrow night. The following day, Hao shares with his mother
that he's participating in a film contest; the mother smiles and wishes him good luck. In fact,
Hao's parents are fighting against each other to take custody over Hao.
Meanwhile, Cheng prays with Kai to his deceased wife for protection. Afterward, Cheng tucks Kai
in bed. But before Kai goes to sleep, he shows his drawing of his mother, and explains that
he dreamed about mommy last night, who told him to remind his dad to uphold his promise. Cheng
gazes upon the sketch, and comments that it's unfair, for he never sees his wife in his dream.
Subsequently, Cheng opens a box, filled with sacred relics in preparation for Mr Abuse's
exorcism. But he firstly sighs at the sight of the scars on his arms, with tiger stripes tattoos.
Then inside a warehouse, Mr Abuse is cuffed on a chair, two Master Tiger's followers are ringing a
bell, while circling around him. Cheng then puts a dead fish, and a compass capable of detecting
spirits on the table. Cheng chants a summoning spell for Master Tiger, removes the blanket around
Mr Abuse, then asks about the demon's identity. Meanwhile, Hao and Fatty sit outside the
warehouse, recording and listening to the rite, using Hao's listening gadget.
Back in the warehouse, Cheng clenches his fist above Mr Abuse, to hold the demon in place. He
sees from Mr Abuse's mind, the aftermath of his murders and a door at the end of a hallway.
Unexpectedly, a female that resembles Cheng's wife, replaces Mr Abuse.
Cheng freezes before her, missing the chance to stop Mr Abuse from escaping and attacking him.
Cheng struggles as Mr Abuse strangles him. He chants the summoning spell again;
but nothing happens. Cheng's mind transcends into the same warehouse; but he's locked on the
chair this time. Cheng surveys the place; but Mr Abuse's ghostly face scares him.
Cheng slowly loses his consciousness, as Mr Abuse tightens his grip on him.
Luckily, the two followers and the friend arrive, and immediately wrap Mr Abuse in
the enchanted blanket. However, the demon from Mr Abuse escapes, and flies above them.
The demon lunges toward the friend; but Cheng successfully traps the demon in the enchanted
blanket, and veils it on the fish. To finally end the rite, Cheng fries the devil fish into oil.
The rite has finished; and they dump the devil fish into the trash.
Hao and Fatty outside the warehouse， curiously capture footage of the devil fish. Suddenly,
its red eyes dart to them, and begin wiggling on the ground. It gives birth to a baby fish; and
Hao keeps the baby fish inside a water bottle. The following day, Hao and Fatty sit in class,
watching a documentary filmed by their classmate. The documentary explains
getting possessed is common, for there are roaming spirits with unfinished businesses,
searching and taking over human bodies. These spirits can easily enter, possess,
and control a human being if their mind is weak. Meanwhile, Cheng watches Kai enjoying a red bean
soup he cooked. He remembers when his wife was pregnant with Kai,
who thought his soup was too sweet for her. While Kai eats, Cheng grabs the crumpled paper
on the table. But Kai stops him, and warns that he drew it out of his scary nightmare last night.
But Cheng encourages him not to be afraid, and proceeds to open the paper, showing a
monstrous black face with angry red eyes. Meanwhile, Hao wakes up from the sound of
his mother entering their house. Hao shares that he cleaned the house with Fatty earlier;
and she smiles at his thoughtful action. Along Hao's clean-up, he found a Mother's
Day gift she never wore: a g-clef necklace, and kept all items related to his dad in a bag.
She immediately takes away the bag after seeing her photos with her ex-husband,
and says she doesn't want to keep them. As she moves away the bag, she notices a new fish in
the aquarium; and Hao shares that Fatty gave it to him, and that it's the subject of their film.
It's midnight; and Cheng wakes up after dreaming about Kai getting chased by a demon. Then a loud
knocking erupts on his front door. Cheng opens it, and sees his friend with a worried face.
The friend asks what happened after they fried the fish, because unfortunately, Mr Abuse's two guards
got possessed and allowed Mr Abuse to escape. The friend worries that the demon on the loose
will wreak havoc. So he and Cheng visit Mr Abuse's house to investigate. Cheng examines Mr Abuse's
family portrait; and the friend ponders how their happy family resulted in such a tragedy.
Afterward, they investigate the second floor. Cheng enters a bedroom alone,
while his friend guards outside. Suddenly, a hand stretches out onto the friend; but it disappears
when he turns around. Inside the bedroom, Cheng follows the compass that's leading him to the bed.
Under the bed, he discovers a crumpled talisman. Meanwhile, the friend sees two incense sticks,
planted in a bowl at the end of the hallway. Out of the blue, a plastic bag emerges and drifts
towards him. he recognizes the plastic bag, and freezes at the sight of the ghost before him.
He backs away, pinning himself on the wall, when the ghost suddenly traps him in a plastic bag. he
struggles against the ghost; but he manages to rip off the plastic, causing the ghost to disappear.
Subsequently, the friend tremblingly smokes as he waits outside for Cheng. Momentarily, Cheng exits
the house, and concludes that Mr Abuse followed a Feng Shui Master's instruction to accumulate
wealth. However, the practice also trapped a spirit among them. The friend angrily insults the
family for calling a Feng Shui Master, instead of the police. But Cheng shows him the talisman for
expelling evil spirits, implying the family needed a religious profession over the police, because
they know a demon was out to get Mr Abuse. The following day, Cheng and his psychic
friend visit the Feng Shui Master's great-granddaughter, since the master
herself currently spends her retirement in the mountains. The great-granddaughter assures them
that the master isn't capable of harming anyone with spells. Then she gives Cheng
the master's notes, since she doesn't know how the master arranged Mr Abuse's house.
The friend asks what happened during her last conversation with Mr Abuse's wife.
The great-granddaughter remembers Mr Abuse's wife was crying over the telephone,
saying that her husband was possessed. However, the great-granddaughter told her that the master
had retired, and could no longer provide services. Shortly, the last thing she
heard was Mr Abuse's wife gasping for air. Afterward, the great-granddaughter wishes
to be left alone, because she's having a baby. So Cheng and his friend leave,
when she suddenly asks Cheng, if he finds something wrong with the master's notes.
Cheng answers that the notes didn't include Mr Abuse's sixth son, who had an unfortunate fate.
Subsequently, Cheng and his friend revisit Mr Abuse's house, and notice a new offering at
the end of the hallway. They think something's behind the wall for such an offering to exist;
so they break open the wall, and discover an abandoned basement. They see a child's drawing
on the wall, fish scales on a worn bed, and a medical record on a shelf. The medical record
shows Mr Abuse's son suffered from a rare disease since birth, where his skin was fish-like.
Meanwhile, Hao embraces his mother, who's feeling down lately. He suggests seeing her psychiatrist;
but she admits that that makes her feel like a crazy woman, incapable of raising a child. Still,
Hao assures her that he's there for her. Afterward, Hao's mother cleans the aquarium
and takes out a box; but when she returns, the whole living room is a mess; and the
aquarium's water is dirty again. she rushes to the bathroom, thinking it's all a hallucination,
and drinks her prescribed medicine. She calms herself and faces the mirror; but she staggers
at the sight of her horrifying reflection. She looks at herself again to see her image returns;
but a voice calls her name from the empty shower. she returns to the living room, looking tidy
again. Then she sees Fatty's video camera sitting on the dining table.
she cries upon watching a video, showing Hao enjoying a day with his father's new family.
It's night; and Cheng and his friend wait outside Mr Abuse's house,
to see who's leaving the offering near the basement. Shortly after, an elderly woman enters
Mr Abuse's house, with a basket of offerings. The two enter the house, and meet the elderly
woman, who introduces herself as the midwife when Mr Abuse's son was born. The midwife reveals to
them that Mr Abuse and his wife mistreated the son just because of his rare disease. They locked
up their son in the basement for ten years, because of fear from public judgment. However,
the son's condition never improved, because his parents never sought medical attention for him.
Then one unfortunate evening, Mr Abuse assumed that his son tried to escape and wanted to ruin
his reputation; so he beat him up. Ever since that evening, the mid-wife never saw the son again.
Meanwhile, Hao returns home, and finds his mother blankly staring at the wall.
She asks if Hao's happier with his dad's family. However, Hao keeps quiet,
and quickly grabs the video camera to hide in his room; but she pulls him and demands the truth.
Hao unexpectedly shouts that he does enjoy being with them, because his own mother acts
weird around him. Hao leaves her mother alone, and shuts his door in her face.
Alone, the mother clutches the divorce letter inside her bedroom. The metronome on top of the
piano suddenly moves alone. So she checks, and sees someone sitting on the stool. but
when she parts the thin drapes, the figure disappears. She quickly stops the metronome,
and breathes to calm herself; but when she turns around, a demon with scaly skin hisses
at her. she falls backward; and the scaly demon possesses her, taking advantage of her grudges.
Hao wakes up after the scaly demon pops into his dream. He leaves the bedroom,
and sees the aquarium empty and bloody. Then a silhouette runs past Hao; and so he checks it,
where he sees a blood trail leading to the bathroom. Behind the shower curtain, he catches
his mother eating a fish from the aquarium. Hao retreats to the living room, as his
possessed mother limps toward him. Hao hears their front door abruptly closing by itself,
and his mother shortly reverts to her original self. but enters the bathroom again.
The same night, Hao visits Cheng to exorcize his mother. Hao reveals he brought the fish he found,
on the day they fried the demon fish. Eventually, Cheng begins the rite;
and his assistant covers the demon fish's baby fish, with the enchanted blanket.
Cheng first asks the demon inside its purpose, and then clenches his fist above her head like
last time. Cheng sees through the demon that Mr Abuse slammed his son's head on the wall,
and buried him alive near Lantan Lake. Shortly, the assistant kills the flapping fish under the
blanket, which stops the mother from shaking during the exorcism. Cheng finally learns that
they're dealing with no ordinary demon. So he gives Hao a charm to protect them from demons.
The following day, Cheng and several Master Tiger followers pray at Master Tiger in Lantan,
to seek justice for the unfortunate fate of Mr Abuse's son. They prepare a table with Master
Tiger's statue, and other sacred items. Still in Lantan, the police locate Mr Abuse's body,
who also died from strangulation, with a plastic bag around his head. Cheng is
certain that the demons used the grudge of Mr Abuse's son, to turn him into a demon.
Meanwhile, in Hao's school, his mother emits a strange aura, the moment she stands on the stage
to perform. And Hao watches his mother intently while waiting for his dad. The
mother plays the piano, but with a different piece from the one she's usually practicing.
As Hao's mother performs the eerie musical piece, demons in Lantan surround Cheng and the followers.
then both the Master Tiger's followers and students in the auditorium,
shake uncontrollably as if they're being possessed.
Cheng tries to summon Master Tiger; but nothing happens again. The demons possess the followers;
and the assistant has no choice but to save Cheng from the growing possessed followers. The altar
they made gets destroyed by the demons; and Cheng watches in horror, while he's being dragged away.
The mother ends the performance; and parents in the auditorium leave with their children.
A parent accidentally bumps into her, thus leading him back to her bedroom.
He finds her g-clef necklace on the ground and grabs it; but the possessed mother attacks him.
Hao wakes up from his dad's voice, and looks at his hand to see the g-clef necklace in his palm.
Momentarily, Cheng returns home, sitting in the dining room. On the table,
he sees Kai's more dark drawings about the demon he's dealing with. He realizes Kai is not around,
and searches for him. He finds him in the bathtub curled; his arms get red marks from
the big monster that nearly got him. Cheng hugs him tight, in fear of almost losing his son.
The same night, Cheng visits his father, Master Long, along with Kai.
Kai embraces his grandpa upon arriving, and says to him that Cheng needs help. So Cheng kneels in
front of an altar, dedicated to Master Tiger. Master Long recaps to Cheng that the last time
he knelt in front of Master Tiger, was when his wife was battling cancer while carrying Kai.
The condition given by the doctor, was that only one can be saved;
so Cheng prayed to Master Tiger to save them both. However, even God couldn't change fate.
His wife died; and Cheng hurt himself in front of Master Tiger's altar, for abandoning his prayer.
but Master Long stopped him from ending his life. Back in the present, Master Long tells Cheng that
Master Tiger can't enter his body, if his mind is still clinging to an obsession;
and the statues are only reminders that God is with them; but God truly lives within them.
The following day, Cheng visits Kai before going on a trip to Lantan. However, Kai stops him and
insists on bringing him; but Cheng promises that he'll return. Afterward, Cheng enters his car;
but Hao, on his bicycle, catches up to him in time. Hao needs help to search for his mother,
who disappeared after the concert. therefore, Cheng and Hao travel to
Lantan. Then Cheng locates and digs up Mr Abuse's son's grave. They pray for his soul;
but demons surround them quickly. They run far; but the demons still trap and attack them. Hao
successfully dispels a demon attacking him with the charm. Unexpectedly, he spots his mother
walking further into the forest. So he follows her, and comes across Fatty's video camera.
The video shows his mother standing behind an aquarium, who shortly leaves the camera's view.
Once again, Hao teleports to his house, which looks abandoned. He witnesses his younger years
flash before him. His mother sings a lullaby to a baby Hao, and she teaches a toddler Hao to write
the g-clef. Hao approaches his mother; but she disappears the moment he touches her. Suddenly,
the mother plays the piano in her bedroom; so Hao removes the charm to talk with her.
Upon entering, the video camera reappears, showing a video of him enjoying a day with his dad's new
family. The mother cries in the corner; and when Hao calls her, she crawls towards him,
saying that he should just be with them, since he's happier around them.
However, Hao embraces his mother despite her horrifying face, and assures her that he's
with her, no matter what happens. The demon tries to battle its place within the mother;
but Hao's love for his mother is stronger, and more passionate than the demon's inside her mind.
Meanwhile, Master Tiger finally enters Cheng's body, after his successful liberation from his
obsession. However, Master Long, in the temple, prays to Master Tiger for guidance and strength
to Cheng, for he realizes that the demon whom Cheng has been battling
since the beginning, is Archdemon itself. Suddenly, the wife appears and calls Cheng
to join her. but Cheng knows the truth; so he clenches his fist above his wife, and she screams.
Just then, the scaly demon reveals its true self, and calls Archdemon.
Archdemon lurks behind Cheng, and impales him on a branch. Cheng feels his body weakened because
of the hole in his body. but he remembers his promise to protect and take care of Kai.
So using his last strength, he breaks off the branch， and summons Master Tiger one last time.
Meanwhile, Kai's eyes glow just like Cheng, whenever Master Tiger possesses him.
Together, Cheng and Kai, despite being separated from each other, reunite their power through
Master Tiger. Cheng presses his arm tattoos to show Master Tiger's illuminating image.
The father and son growl toward the looming Archdemon. Master Tiger's glowing spirit lunges
at Archdemon, defeating it once again. The movie ends with Cheng saying goodbye
to his son through his dreams. He asks him to look after his grandpa. Later,
the friend arrives with the rescue team in Lantan, where he finds Cheng's compass on the floor,
the other followers, Hao and his mother. Then Hao returns the Master Tiger statue
in Lantan to Master Long. Not long after, Hao's mother enjoys playing music again;
and Master Long watches over Kai, who's drawing their family picture with Master Tiger.
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