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Today I'll show you a horror-mystery film: "The Valdemar Legacy, Part 2: Forbidden Shadow"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with the boss and his secretary driving late at night to the Valdemar mansion
They are tasked with joining the search for Luisa, who's been missing for four days already
the secretary questions why their company
is keeping the appraisers' disappearances hidden from the police and press
the boss assumes it's always been the company's way to discreetly deal with issues
While traveling to the mansion, the boss quickly swerves the car in circles,
to evade a woman running in the middle of the road
the secretary panics; but the boss bravely checks on the dazed woman outside
At the far end of the woods,
the truck driver shoots his tranquilizer gun at the secretary first, who has exited the car;
and next is the boss, who's returning to the car after seeing his secretary faint
the truck driver then glances at the dazed woman; but she disappears from the road
It's none other than Luisa escaping from the truck driver, who's chasing her
However, she falls off a slope, and hits her head on a tree root,
making the truck driver miss her from the shadows of the trees
Thereafter, Luisa regains consciousness, as the gypsy cleans her bleeding forehead in a trailer
Luisa panics because she's in a different place again
but the gypsy calms her down, and says that she's safer in her place than being outside,
for whoever's hunting her is not the first time they've done it
Meanwhile, the detective eats dinner with the president on the train
He wants to be friendly with the president; but she gently dismisses his advances
Then, he asks about the sketches' meaning from the Valdemar couple's diary;
but the president reminds him that his job is to find Luisa, and not learn from the diary
Momentarily, the president resumes the life story of Lazaro after his wife,
Leonor's sacrificial death
A hundred years ago, Lazaro became obsessed with obtaining the Book of the Dead, or Necronomicon
It contains rituals, and summoning spells from the Beyond Realms
The butler convinced him that Leonor was dead
but Lazaro refused to believe this, shut down the butler's concern,
and asked him to leave him alone
Lazaro's cult was based on the so-called Great Old Ones—gods that precede any religion
Lazaro eventually found and bought Necronomicon from Northern Iran;
but no one knew why he bought it
Afterward, Lazaro regained his wealth, and returned to high society
One day, he hosted a party in his Valdemar mansion
to celebrate his success in obtaining the Necronomicon
However, a visitor, named Mr Lovecraft, met with Lazaro in his study room,
and warned him that whoever owned it would never end well
However, Lazaro was determined to keep the Necronomicon all by himself,
and locked the book in his drawer to keep others from stealing it
Lazaro left Mr Lovecraft in his study room; while behind another door, the butler was eavesdropping
He called Mr Lovecraft to convince Lazaro to free himself from the possession of the book
but his plan failed
Mr Lovecraft complimented the butler for being a good guardian for Lazaro, despite his stubbornness
Back to the present, the gypsy reads tarot cards for Luisa in the trailer
She read Luisa's recent past, present, and immediate future
Despite Luisa's skepticism towards pseudoscience,
the gypsy explains that it's not for Luisa to believe in, but for her to understand
The first three cards show Luisa as intelligent, the mansion,
and the people who have influenced her lately to commit acts of evil
Afterward, the gypsy asks Luisa to tell her what happened from the beginning, which Luisa obliges
A flashback kicks in, when Luisa woke up yesterday in a strange boarding house,
with no telephone and no explanation
She left the boarding house the next morning, and found the housekeeper in a barn
Then she asked for a ride into town
The housekeeper thought Luisa was the truck driver, but it wasn't
So the housekeeper searched for the truck's car keys;
while Luisa examined the board filled with 180 portrait photographs
Apparently, those are all the missing people
For the housekeeper, the adults and children were his friends before they went missing
He shared that he assisted in the search with the police
Luisa asked if they never asked for help from the press
The housekeeper got mad upon hearing the word, "press," for he believed they often twisted stories
He sits on the ground, and asks Luisa to grab his medicine, which is meant for horses
Luisa still gave the medicine, despite knowing the risk
The housekeeper swallowed a handful of medicines, but eventually vomited them out
The housekeeper, dazed by the medicine,
revealed that he had eaten the missing people and children during the initiation to the cult,
despite being opposed to the idea of it
Afterward, he warned her to leave immediately,
or else they were going to feed her to the beast, and then to him
Luisa then rushed outside the barn
but the truck driver caught her, and stunned her with a taser gun
the truck driver then found the housekeeper cowering behind the wall,
and brutally kicked him repeatedly
Afterward, the truck driver locked Luisa in the bedroom again;
while the housekeeper went into a room
He talked to people in vibrant clothes,
who were telling him to stand up against the truck driver and slice him into pieces,
and then save Luisa
It turns out, the people were rather mannequins, merely the housekeeper's hallucinations
He then grabbed his earpiece for his broken left ear, and an ax to use against the truck driver
He returned to the boarding house, and imagined the ax on top of the sleeping truck driver
But he freed Luisa first by picking the lock
Luisa successfully escaped the house, while the housekeeper hid behind the closet
However, the truck driver woke up too late, and chased Luisa outside
Luisa fled through the forest and reached a road, where a car almost ran over her
She fell on the asphalt, and couldn't make out the driver
After hearing Luisa's story, the gypsy asks her to open the single tarot card for the present
It's an upside-down wheel of fortune, symbolizing danger
The gypsy asks Luisa to return to the mansion at once
Just then, Luisa realizes the gypsy is a member of the cult
But the gypsy clarifies that she in the past was a member of the cult, who took away her baby boy
She asks Luisa to bring her baby boy back, and warns her that she's not in the mansion by chance
Suddenly, someone knocks on the trailer; and Luisa thinks it's the truck driver
But when Luisa turns around, the gypsy is gone
Luisa opens the door, and strikes the detective's head with a pan;
and he immediately falls unconscious
The president shakes him to wake him up, but stops upon recognizing Luisa
She introduces the detective, and says that they have arrived from the train station
Luisa embraces the president in relief, then approaches the detective to wake him up
Shockingly, the president suffocates Luisa, with a chloroformed handkerchief
Afterward, the president radios the truck driver to report that she has caught two prized specimens,
and warns the truck driver to keep his hands off the housekeeper
In the boarding house, the housekeeper comes out of hiding,
after hearing the president's voice record
Because of his injured ear, the housekeeper can't distinguish a real voice from a walkie-talkie
the truck driver holds a walkie-talkie, saying the housekeeper has a visitor,
revealing one of the housekeeper's mannequins
the truck driver decapitates the mannequin's head,
warning the housekeeper to do his job accordingly;
or else it'll be a real head next time
Meanwhile, the detective wakes up in the mansion's basement,
along with the boss, the secretary, and Luisa
They wear fake shackles; and in front of them is a camera
the detective wakes up the boss first, then lets him awaken the other two women
Once everyone is awake, the detective introduces himself, and starts examining the room
The basement they're locked in is the preparator's playroom;
and the shackles and bloody backdrop are props
There are photographs pinned on the wall of previous horrified victims
Luisa then explains her disappearance;
but the boss stops her, saying there's no time for storytelling
the detective continues his story,
saying the chairman hired him to investigate Luisa's disappearance
the boss believes that they're locked in the same room, because they're all appraisers
He also adds that the former appraiser is still missing
but Luisa clarifies that the former appraiser had died from being maimed in the mansion
However, the detective's connection to them is still unclear, until the detective explains his side
The detective tells everyone that he and the former appraiser planned
to steal a portion of the company's hidden 650 million-plus hoarded money
All they needed was a plate to replicate the seal, used on company documents
But when they finally found one in the summer,
the former appraiser declared that it was far more valuable than money
Afterward, he disappeared; and the detective never heard from him again,
until Luisa announced his death right now
the secretary suddenly remembers that a man in black glasses,
walked into their meeting room, and told them to evaluate the Valdemar mansion,
which the former appraiser volunteered,
and named Luisa, the boss, and the secretary as his support team
Luisa reckons that they're probably locked in,
because the detective and the former appraiser wanted to embezzle money
but the detective defends himself, by saying their plan never happened
The four of them eventually argued and blamed one another
Then the boss speaks up, and simplifies the situation
When the detective involved the former appraiser in embezzling the hoarded money,
the former appraiser involved the boss and the secretary as his support team
Then, the boss sent Luisa to evaluate the mansion;
but when Luisa went missing, the detective was hired by the chairman
Therefore, their involvement in the mess at the mansion becomes clear:
the man in glasses must have learned about their plan
Meanwhile, the truck driver welcomes four vans parked in front of the mansion
A twist reveals as the company's chairman appears as the cult's sommelier,
and the man in black glasses is Chamberlain
More importantly, Lazaro's still alive after 150 years
Back in the basement, the housekeeper arrives to let the four employees escape on one condition:
They need to bring the gypsy's baby outside too
the boss doubts the housekeeper's identity and condition;
but Luisa defends him, saying that if the boss only let her finish the story, then he would know
Before leaving, the detective equips himself with a taser, carries his jacket,
and collects victims' photographs for evidence
The boss and his secretary doubt the housekeeper
but Luisa convinces them that he's a kind man who saved her
They travel in a tunnel
and there, the housekeeper confesses that the cult ordered him to kidnap a baby;
but when he refused, the truck driver broke his ear
But the housekeeper tells them that he already took and hid the gypsy's baby
After the tunnel, they enter an underground floor, where there's a crib
The housekeeper carries the baby boy
but to everyone's eyes, it's just a doll, not a real one
Then they enter a gate to the cave, where the beast from the beginning awaits
They venture deeper, until the beast chases them
Everyone runs across the rocky path, then through the bridge that collapses afterward
Soon after, they climb a steep crevice
Upon reaching the top, the beast catches the boss, who's at the back of the queue
the detective tries to shoot the beast with the taser; but he's too far
so he gives it to the secretary
When the secretary shoots the beast, it stuns the boss too, causing the two to fall off the heights
the secretary cries in pain seeing the boss die
but the detective calms her down,
after confronting the housekeeper about what's with the beast lurking in the cave
However, the housekeeper explains the cult never told him everything
After escaping death from the beast, the group reach a tunnel upward
To everyone's surprise, the housekeeper leads them into a trap,
as hooded disciples of the cult beckon them deeper into the cave
the detective is confused to see the chairman,
and even confesses and apologizes for planning to steal the company's money
but the chairman only laughs, and looks for the boss
The secretary outbursts in anger,
shouting that it's their fault that the boss died from the beast in the cave
The chairman nonchalantly comments that it's a pity, because he had other plans for him
the detective finally realizes why the cult has been capturing people
He recognizes the medallions on the robes: Cthulhu
It is an ancient cult,
which required 666 human sacrifices to accomplish a series of arcane invocations
and now, they're exactly the four missing people needed to complete the number
The chairman is impressed that the detective explained the cult's goal in simple terms
But the detective only warns the chairman that their plan won't work;
and covering up 666 deaths of people is not that easy to hide from the police
but the chairman is determined to execute the ritual,
just as the magician was in convincing Lazaro a hundred years ago
Later, the three employees are brought to the ritual site
They are tied to a pillar for the sacrificial offer
The chairman receives reports from Chamberlain
that the sleeping beast in the abyss was captured easily,and is being delivered
Then, Chamberlain searches for the boss; but since he died,
the chairman asks if they can kill a member of the cult
Chamberlain says they already mix outsiders into the offering;
and adding members will only mess things up
But the chairman doesn't want to listen,
because Chamberlain only wants to take his place as the sommelier
The ritual eventually begins
The chairman stands on a podium, and eats a tarantula in the process
Then, Lazaro, accompanied by the president, comes out into the light to read the Necronomicon
The three employees have their heads covered up;
and the detective recognizes Lazaro's face from afar
The cult brings out the chained beast, and places it in the center;
then the housekeeper places the baby doll in the middle of the table for sacrifice;
because offering the baby is essential in creating a link between the human world and the underworld
To show the devils the respect they need, they must kill the baby brutally, and with no hesitation
The chairman chants a prayer, and plunges the dagger into the baby doll;
but instead of blood splurging out, there's nothing
The ritual is disrupted, because there's no actual baby
Chamberlain explains to the president that the Great Old Ones must never be mocked
Possibly because of that, the cave quakes suddenly;
the chained beast goes berserk; and the chairman chants an apology,
as a gigantic demon with wings and GPS tentacles appears before them
The cult members pray to the demon;
but it only kills them all, thus completing the four missing sacrificial offers,
required to fill in the obelisk
The gigantic demon eats the chairman next;
and then Lazaro proceeds to pray his request to stop the invocation,
and end the curse that ruined his family
Suddenly, black hands from the underworld grab the gigantic demon,
and withdraw it back into darkness
As the demon disappears, Leonor returns
The two lovers reunite once again, ready for hormonity
but their youthful features become old and wrinkly,
since the curse has now been lifted, and their bodies now follow the nature of time
Chamberlain explains to Lazaro that he can still request the book, before it disappears completely
Leonor wants Lazaro to use his last request to free the sacrificed souls,
because the Great Old Ones never liked them
She heard the souls cry in agony, when she was in Purgatory for the last 100 years
Lazaro obliges the wish of his wife, prays for his request;
and the trapped souls break free from the obelisk,
and fly to the heavens
Lazaro and Leonor then die side by side, as their oldness takes over their bodies
Meanwhile, the housekeeper confronts the truck driver with his ax
However, the truck driver insults him and even shoots his side;
but the housekeeper quickly chops off his chubby body into pieces
Later arrives the police officer, whom the housekeeper called for earlier
The ambulances come too, to aid the three survivors in a tent,
and count the corpses found in the cave
Reporters try to get a scoop; but they're dragged away
Meanwhile, the gypsy arrives in a tent, for as it turns out,
her lost son is none other than the housekeeper
Another officer comes to the tent to ask what they've witnessed
but the moment he leaves as requested by the medical staff,
the gypsy tells them that the officer is part of the cult
The cult is nervous, because it's the first time someone has survived the ritual
The movie ends with Chamberlain offering the three employees to join the cult, as the new sommeliers
but the detective dashingly negotiates,
saying they need to leave them out of their crazy group,
or else they'll expose the boss's compiled data and birth certificates,
of 650 people from the foundation for the last years
Chamberlain has left no choice, but to accept the condition in exchange for the cult's secrecy
The three employees leave the tent as reporters swarm around them
but they keep their big mouths tightly shut as promised
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