Incantation (2022)

July 12, 2022 4:56 PM

WARNING: This is a cursed video, it might contain certain risks to watch; For those who dares to follow, please solve the puzzle of my daughter's curse with me.

A woman, Li Ronan, ends up cursing herself while she participates in an amateur "ghostbusters" video. Now the curse is going after her daughter, Dodo. She videotapes her attempts to protect her daughter.

Now streaming on Netflix.

posted by miss-lapin (3 comments total)

An interesting take on the found footage genre. If you're familiar with the genre, you'll see where this is heading but it's still a fun trip. Definitely some really effective scares.
posted by miss-lapin at 4:58 PM on July 12, 2022 [1 favorite]

I mentioned this in another thread, but while some of this is kind of obligatory horror and it's not exactly deviating far from the possessed kid formula, it's still pretty effective! It can deliver heebee jeebees. And the mystery of the spooky tunnel is dangled pretty well, and then delivered pretty well, and I give it a lot of points for that, maybe it's my D&D brain.

I compare it to The Medium which was also formulaic, but not inspired, and felt like a slog.
posted by fleacircus at 8:07 PM on October 9, 2022

This was good, but at fifteen minutes shorter, it could have been very good.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:33 PM on December 5, 2022 [1 favorite]