Pokémon's Lord of Fear

[Good luck and bad luck are all luck: I think the most unlucky person in Ju-Jin 3 is Kayako's sister. She could have successfully exorcised the demon, but ended up meeting a bunch of stupid teammates]

[I Want Superman: Yes, I was really angry when I saw the actions of those stupid teammates. Fortunately, these unlucky guys all died in the end. I just don’t understand why there are always these stupid characters in horror movies. It’s like there’s a hole in their brains.]

"There's nothing we can do about it. If there were no idiots in horror movies, then the plot would be hard to advance. Besides, there are already quite a few people with mental problems in this world." Teng Shu was scrolling through the stupid chat group on his phone, chatting with stupid netizens, while complaining about this in his mind.

He used to wonder why there were so many idiots in horror movies, but later Teng Shu discovered that it would be difficult to advance the plot without idiots. And after experiencing more things, Teng Shu found that there are really a lot of idiots these days, and some people's actions are really even more outrageous than in the movies.

For example, there is a tenant who feels that she has rented the house for a long time, so when the house is demolished, she asks the landlord to give her half of the demolition fee. Another example is a woman who feels like she is being Q-ed when she is alone at home, and has that special feeling of climax, so she believes that the old man and uncle upstairs used some high-tech method to Q-ed her through the air, but a medical examination finds that the other party is still there.

So these days there are actually far more fools in real life than in movies, but most ordinary people’s brain circuits are unable to understand the thoughts of these fools, which leads to the following situation - people think that people in movies are too stupid.

[Unfortunate me: Your statement is too one-sided. Isn't there a horror movie in this issue that is determined to compete with the Grudge Three? I went to watch it, and now my name represents my mood.]

[Fire fire fire fire flaming fist! : I know, The House of Unhappiness, damn, I went to see it too, and was curious about who would dare to challenge director Teng Shu in a horror film competition, but after watching it I was really amused, it was clearly a horror film, but it felt like a comedy to me]

[It is Snow Demon Girl Kouya: This movie is very bad, but you guys don’t understand it! ]

Teng Shu became interested. Of course he knew that there was a movie competing with his own The Grudge recently, but he had no idea what style of the movie was. He only knew it was called "The House of Unhappiness". However, it seemed that this bad movie had some characteristics, which made Teng Shu curious.

Moreover, this Snow Demon Girl is the Lich King in the group, but her online name changes frequently, so Teng Shu has gotten used to it. Now he is a little curious about what Snow Demon Girl thinks.

[The Snow Demon Girl said: You have to look at it this way. This unfortunate family is the best fighter in horror movies and the scariest in fighting movies. Isn't it amazing that they won in one go?]

[It’s the Snow Fairy: My wife is right! Whatever my wife says is right! ]

[Hello, I am the chief physician of a mental hospital: Looking at it this way, it seems that what the Snow Demon Girl said is right, @是雪妖女口牙]

The corners of Teng Shu's mouth twitched. These guys were really hopeless. However, this made Teng Shu a little curious. What kind of god-like movie could receive such reviews?
"Forget it, I'll just go and watch it to kill time." Teng Shu yawned, then bought some movie tickets online. When he looked at it, he saw that the entire theater was booked out.

This is not to say that Teng Shu is rich, but because Teng Shu was the only one who bought a ticket for this movie. Teng Shu was speechless. He already had a bad premonition in his heart, and this premonition made the alarm called bad movie radar in Teng Shu's heart sound wildly.

However, in order to avoid spoilers, Teng Shu forced himself not to search for reviews of the movie, and chose to go to the cinema to watch the movie by himself. When he arrived at the cinema, Teng Shu found that he was the only one there. The corners of Teng Shu's mouth twitched, but never mind, it felt good to have the whole theater to himself. Teng Shu released Xiao Q and Wandering Night Spirit. Fugui didn't come today, and he was still learning how to handle Dewen Company's business.

After a while, the movie started.

Teng Shu had a somewhat strange expression on his face, but in the beginning he was in a good mood. Although the story of this movie was a bit old-fashioned, Teng Shu himself felt that it was old-fashioned, and in the context of the Pokémon world setting, it was actually quite good.

The movie begins with a clichéd story about a family of seven moving into a big house. When Teng Shu saw this, he knew that there must be something wrong with the house. This is also an old cliché of the movie. In fact, the main reason why horror movies have declined in the later period is that the clichés of horror movies have been used almost all the time, and everyone is tired of them. It is also for this reason that horror movies are difficult to shoot in the later period, and most of the clichés have been studied.

Then some erratic ghost shadows began to appear, some frightening at first glance. Teng Shu yawned and scratched his head. These routines were within Teng Shu's expectations, but they were also quite interesting.

Then the female ghost possessed the elder sister, and her sister began to behave strangely. When the old father saw his daughter still watching TV at night, he went in to ask about her, but was hit to death by the evil spirit nearby with a stick.

"What will probably happen next is that the male protagonist wants to escape, or someone else wants to escape, but the mother doesn't agree?" Teng Shu complained, and the subsequent plot development was exactly what Teng Shu thought.

The male protagonist met a girl with the ability of Yin-Yang eyes at school. The girl warned him to leave the house. The aunt next to the new house also said that the house was unsafe and should not be lived in. If that didn't work, he should ask her to contact a wizard to perform an exorcism, which the male protagonist also suggested, but his mother directly refused and said that this was the legacy left by his father and he had to stay here no matter what.

Teng Shu almost laughed out loud when he saw this, although he knew that this setting was to promote the plot. After all, if the male protagonist's family moved away, how could this evil ghost still be played? Unless it was a curse killing people like Kayako in Ju-yō, otherwise if it was an earthbound spirit, such a short plot would not be able to support the subsequent story. So, the sister started to go crazy, and the grandfather also died while digging things at this time, but the mother was still unwilling to move away. Then the male protagonist's brother fell to his death, and the male protagonist's sister went crazy and attacked the male protagonist. After waking up, she said that she could not bear such a life, so she committed suicide. The mother also went crazy at this time. She came out to take a look and went back to the room. The male protagonist went in and found that his mother had hanged herself.

"This is quite efficient, and this kind of startling style is indeed very scary, but..." Teng Shu scratched his head. From the current point of view, it is just a standard horror movie, right? But the progress is too fast. The characters have not appeared for a long time, but they are almost dead. What should be done next?
Now there is only one male protagonist and one demented old lady left.

As a result, what happened next made Teng Shu's eyes become distorted, because the old lady was suddenly no longer demented, and she could practice Tai Chi. She even started to lead the male protagonist to strengthen his vitality and energy to fight against the evil spirits here. The male protagonist really did so, so the following plot became magical, and the whole plot was very distorted, making people not know what to say, at least Teng Shu himself really didn't know.

However, Teng Shu always felt that it was inexplicably familiar, as if he had seen something similar before, but what was it?
Then after a burst of inexplicable burning, the old lady found out the identity of the evil spirit, Sayuri. She had an unfortunate childhood and a ghostly father, so Sayuri turned into a very fat woman. In the end, Sayuri killed her father and sister and gouged out her mother's eyes. Sayuri did not let the male protagonist and the old lady go in the end, but the old lady suddenly started to fight, and together with the male protagonist, she turned Sayuri into a kind little girl again.

The dead relatives of the male protagonist's family also appeared behind Sayuri. With Sayuri's crying, everything was over. The male protagonist also lived a shameless life with the girl with the yin-yang eyes, which made Teng Shu's scalp tingle.

He really didn't expect that there could be such a setting. No wonder the Lich King said that this movie was so unique. Teng Shu also knew why no one watched this movie. After all, the style was too bizarre. Moreover, in the final battle, Sayuri opened her mouth and spit out countless tentacles. I thought I had traveled back to the old days. It was very outrageous. I can only say.

【Director: Koji Shiraishi】

A familiar name flashed by, and Teng Shu was stunned for a moment. Oh my god, that's it!

Koji Shiraishi is a film director from an island country. He is also good at shooting horror films. However, the style of his works is rather strange, so they are controversial. Of course, in the eyes of Koji Shiraishi, these so-called criticisms do not exist. His style is like this. The style that tends to be K-series is also a feature of Koji Shiraishi.

This style is more in line with Shiraishi Koji's personality, so it makes sense. Teng Shu also remembered that he felt this was very familiar before, and it turned out to be an adaptation of a comic.

Teng Shu remembered that this comic was also called "The Unhappy Family", but it was a little different from the movie.

In the comics, a family of seven from Kamiki moved into a gloomy old house. The low price concealed a bloody curse that spanned decades. On the first day of moving in, the eldest son Zexiong witnessed a strange phenomenon - the shadow of a girl in a white dress flashed in the depths of the corridor, and a fishy liquid oozed from the wall. His classmate Sumita, who had the ability to see ghosts, warned him: "The foundation of this house is buried with the resentment of the living."

Sayuri soon began a killing spree. Her grandfather Shozo found a rusty iron chain in the basement and set himself on fire in the middle of the night. Her mother Masako mistakenly killed her husband due to hallucinations and hanged herself in despair. Her young daughter Keiko was dragged into the crack of the wall by an invisible hand, and only her screams were left. In just one month, five family members died in twisted postures, leaving only Norio and his demented grandmother Harue.

Harue suddenly woke up in desperation and revealed the past. She told Zexiong that this mansion used to be the place where their Shenmu family imprisoned others. The person imprisoned at that time was called Sayuri. She was sexually assaulted and tortured to death by the ancestors of Shenmu. Her limbs were nailed with iron chains and she was buried alive under the foundation. This also revealed why Sayuri was so persistent in killing the Shenmu family.

This is different from the movie. In the movie, Sayuri was tortured by her own father, while in the comics it was a family curse. Teng Shu didn't know why he adapted it this way. Afterwards, old lady Harue trained Zexiong with the foundation of a Tai Chi master, which is the Qi training in the movie. The male protagonist was forced to hang upside down on the beam to meditate, eat raw peppers to resist hallucinations, and temper his will in physical torture.

On the night of the final showdown, the grandfather and grandson dug up Sayuri's skeleton. A collar with the words "Shenmu" was still around the neck of the rotten corpse. The evil spirit controlled Tian to attack Zexiong. Harue used her flesh and blood as a shield, sacrificed herself, and used Tai Chi Qi to seal the resentment into the skeleton. However, when Zexiong thought the curse was over, Sayuri's grinning face appeared in the reflection in the mirror.

The comic ends with an open ending. In the ruins of the old house, a black handprint quietly appears on Zexiong's neck, and the last page of Harue's diary reads: "Sins will not disappear, they will only be reborn in a new body."

At that time, Teng Shu thought that this probably meant that the blood curse would not disappear, but would just be reborn in another body, which meant that Zexiong still could not escape the fate of death.

At that time, Teng Shu found it very curious after reading it. The painting style was actually average, but the old woman in the comic was so different before and after that that Teng Shu remembered it. And from that day on, Teng Shu discovered that the Japanese seemed to attach great importance to bloodline. The bloodline of a sinner will always be a sinner. This theory of cause and effect is also reflected in other anime.

Strictly speaking, this is quite normal. After all, East Asia is deeply influenced by Confucian culture, so it is normal to have such a concept of revenge. However, Teng Shu did not continue to read it. After all, it was not very long. Compared with the three major popular comics, it was pitifully short.

"I didn't expect to see such a movie, but this movie..." Teng Shu shook his head. He didn't know whether this movie in this world was adapted from a comic. If so, it was quite a failure. After all, the family curse here was turned into a house curse. This routine was too common in horror movies. This was also one of the main reasons why Teng Shu was not optimistic about it.

With the attitude of giving it a try, Teng Shu did a search and found that there really was an original comic. This made Teng Shu a little amused, but Teng Shu would definitely not watch such a movie a second time.

"It's hard to find good movies these days." Teng Shu shook his head. (End of this chapter)