"You noticed something too. You saw it too, didn't you? Since yesterday I've been seeing..."
- What you have done here is very dangerous. It's not about who you want to talk to, but who you talk to. Don't move! Don't move! Remain where you are!
- I'm the only one here.
- No. You're not alone. Someone has responded. And now he walks with you. An evil entity from the other side. I feel his presence.**
- I don't know what to do to protect ourselves. Amulets don't work. He is not afraid of crosses.
- The cross? God has nothing to do with it. Don't bring him into this.
- How can I make him go away?
- The same way you let him in. He has to go back through the door you opened. You have to close that door. And then you will have to destroy it. You have to do well what was done wrong.
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original title·····Verónica
language·········Spanish
**
loosely based on true events from the 1991 Vallecas case, where a young girl in Madrid named Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro, who mysteriously died after using an Oujia board. It is one of the most famous occult cases in Spain, and it has gone down in history for being the first case of paranormal phenomena to be documented in an official police report.
Directed by Paco Plaza ([·Rec] 2007, [·Rec]² 2009, [·Rec]³: Genesis 2012)
- Your gift is heaven sent. There's a reason you are in this convent. You must find out what it is. To do this, you must pray and sacrifice. Do you torment your body? Do you use the disciplines?
- Every day. And I also fast frequently.
- And yet, you still have doubts?
- What if I only saw what I wanted to see? What if what I saw wasn't the Holy Mother? If only she could send me a sign.
- There's a spirit here. Of a little girl. And that we mustn't play with her. We mustn't touch her drawings. Sister Inés added the last leg to a hangman drawing to prove it was fine. But then the Girl wrote her name. After that, Sister Inés left. She was terrified.
- She wrote her name? What do you mean?
- If she writes your name you are cursed... Don't move. She's right behind you. But it's not a girl.
"I saw what happened in the war. Before the liberation. When you touched me. Suddenly I was there. The mutilated statues, the relics. That's not all that happened. I saw it. I saw what they did to one of the sisters. It's her. Sister Socorro. She was here, and this was her cell. And the thing with the Girl. Only the sisters knew... Socorro is here. I opened the door for her"
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original title·····Hermana Muerte
language·········Spanish
Directed by Paco Plaza ([·Rec] 2007, [·Rec]² 2009, [·Rec]³: Genesis 2012, Veronica 2017)
"We're dealing with a madman here. Or a homicidal sex maniac. Who only kills beautiful girls. Perhaps female beauty makes him lose his head and kill"
- I burnt everything that could compromise you. When I heard you'd been arrested I got rid of Peggy's body. And I killed Greta to give you an alibi. I don't know how I did it. I'd never have thought I'd have the strength to kill. But I did it for you.
- Perfect. The police are convinced they're dealing with a sex maniac. What a mess. It's all because of that stupid idiot Isabella. Her blackmail had become unbearable. Money, money and more money. She thought she had us on a string. She felt like she was the only witness to a perfect crime. Her death would have been perfect too, if only that bloody diary hadn't cropped up. The two of us will never have any peace until we give the police a culprit. We'll never get away with it unless we put a face to their sex maniac. Until they catch him they'll be watching us. All the girls who were killed worked at the studio. They've got no proof against us but the case has become a sensation. It's all over the papers. The scandal's raging. We need to find a solution.
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original title·····6 donne per l'assassino (6 Women for the Murderer)
language·········Italian
"Even if you cut off my head, you still have plenty of troubles to deal with. Why does His Majesty wants to kill me? Is it because I deserve to die? You underestimate His Majesty. I was in power for eight years. Now, my power is gone. All I've got is lots of money. What His Majesty needs is a fortune to fund his armies, and he has his eyes on mine. If you don't bring him my money, your trouble's only starting. A handful of this gold is worth 30 years of your salary. Let me live, and it's all yours. If you kill me, my followers will hunt you down, one by one. This money... You take it, you die. You don't take it you still die. Why don't you take a chance"**
"My son, you want to kill me because you don't want to get dragged into this. Those three imperial assassins knows I'm alive. Kill them for me. and I'll disappear. Only then, will you truly be safe"**
- Shen Lian, I gave you a chance to live, and you came back to haunt me.
- If I don't kill you, I'm as good as dead.
- You want to avenge your sworn brothers? Let me tell you something. His Majesty only requested that Wei be taken back to the Capital.** He didn't want him dead. I was the one who wanted him dead.
- You faked His Majesty's order. Even if we killed Wei Zhongxian**, you'd still kill us.
- You three were dead from the moment I approached you.
- Why did you approach us three in the first place?
- You are like ants. Who cares if you die? When I want you crushed, you'll be crushed.
- You're no longer Commander of the Secret Police. You lost everything, All thanks to us ants.
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original title·····绣春刀 (Xiù chūn dāo)
language·········Mandarin
**
Set in 1627, towards the end of the Ming dynasty. The plot follows three sworn brothers in arms of the imperial secret police, who are dispatched to hunt down the former eunuch Wei Zhongxian and purge his faction within the imperial court. However, the three sworn brothers loyalties are sorely tested when one of them makes a choice that would embroil them into a dangerous conspiracy.
Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield 2017*
- Assassinating the Emperor was never your goal. The goal of Your Highness was to eliminate Wei and his party. And the only one who can do that is the Emperor. His Majesty has no children. If he died, the only successor would be his younger brother, Zhu Youjian, Prince Xin. Am I correct? Prince Xin, Your Highness.
- If Wei had gotten a hold of this Log**, many would have lost their heads. You dared to come see me. Didn't you fear that I'd kill you?
- I wanted to see for myself the man Bei Zhai's guarding with her life. If he's worth it.
- No, you're worried about her. So you came in her stead. You like her. She told me you were supposed to kill her, but ended up saving her. Why?
- I admire her paintings.**
- I understand. Her paintings are like her person. Take this tablet of the Mansion of Prince Xin. Nobody will stop you when they see this tablet. However, you must kill her first. Wei is looking everywhere for her. She knows way too much. Thousands will die if she doesn't.
- Your Highness. Bei Zhai didn't betray you, and never will. I'm taking her out of the city. If you send men after us, I'll take them all down.
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original title·····绣春刀II修罗战场 (Xiù chūn dāo II xiūluō zhànchǎng)
language·········Mandarin
**
Prequel to the Brotherhood of Blades 2014. The plot revolves around Shen Lian, captain of the imperial secret police of the court, as he searches for the truth behind a conspiracy that framed him.
"In our city, during the past month, there have been four unexplained murders. The victim in each case was a woman. All committed without any apparent motive whatsoever. It is quite clear to us that there is a serial killer at large. But what makes our investigation particularly difficult, we are fairly certain that this man is, as far as his appearance goes, quite sane"
- Hello?
- [Get smarter, Mr. Dalmas. Take my advice, mind your own business. Stop playing detective. It's not healthy. That was a warning yesterday. Wasn't it enough? Go back to America. Forget about the murders. There is a limit to my patience! Your girl friend's young and very beautiful, would you like her to die? Because if you don't drop everything I will kill her!]
- It was you! Now I remember. Of course! You were holding the knife! You were trying to kill him and he was trying to escape. I can see it clearly now.
- You will die. You will die. You must die... like the others.
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original title·····L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
language·········Italian
"Well, it's day two on the great Canadian north. And even with a shelter and a fire, it sure is nice when the sun comes up. Holy shit. Look at that, It's like a perfect line right down the lake. Jesus, maybe it had something to do with the sound I heard. That's no lightning. Well, we gotta investigate this. From wilderness show to detective show. Follow me"
"Someone tilted the fucking cameras down last night. So, someone's clearly messing with me. That scream at night. Now the sat phone is gone and the chess pieces have moved. I'll try and get some footage for the show, but, this is starting to feel really messed up. So I'm not alone out here I guess, I got a fan. My spidey senses are screaming at me to get the hell out of here. Well, at least I know I'm not going crazy"
[...At this point we can't say with any accuracy what the scope of the attack is. The initial global air attack targeted the world's largest and most densely populated cities and military installations. Now, the initial global attack only lasted 97 minutes. All we know is that the attack is of unknown origin. Not of this world. Now, the last reports we had were that several alien aircraft were shot down by northern military defense forces. Authorities have been pleading with people to get as far away from the densely populated urban centers, to get as far away from them as possible. And if you managed to escape, and if you can hear me, if you're out there, good luck...]
- I made a breakdown of the rock we found in the lab. With the exception of a trace of iron phosphate, not enough to mention, they're all silicates. Chert, feldspar, pyroxene, almost all of the olivine group, flint, almost solid silica. Little bits of it slapped together in such a way that it shouldn't even exist. Ordinary silica, the most common material you can find, and yet everywhere this stuff goes, somebody dies. What beats me is it's completely unknown. Nothing like it's been recorded.
- What if it's never been recorded because it hasn't been here to record?
- The dirt sample is ordinary earth, but nothing more. The wreckage is exactly what it should be, wood, plaster, metal, but the silica content in both is missing. There's not a sign of it. That could be the answer. We know the siliceous rock does multiply. Perhaps a part of the process is the absorption of silica, taking it right out of whatever it comes into contact with, be it desert, or wood, or...
- Human beings?
- Evacuate? The entire town?
- Chief, those rocks are gonna come crashing through here. There won't be a living thing left. When they're no longer confined within the walls of the canyon, when they break out onto the open valley floor. As long as there is water, it'll multiply again and again. They're pulling the water out of the sand like sponges, without a continuing rainfall, at least the growth's been retarded. It looks like it's taken about 10 minutes for each cycle. the way I figure it, we got seven or eight hours and our town's gonna look more like a petrified forest than a town.
- Well, do you think we can figure out how to stop them?
"No one lives there anymore! Behind the Temple is a mass grave. In the past few years, all the people in the temple have disappeared. Those lingering moans and shouts heard at night are actually all lonely ghosts"
- Are you really a ghost?
- Yes. Don't be afraid of me. Have I ever harmed you?
- No. But why did you kill those men in that temple?
- I had no choice. I was forced to lure men to absorb their yang energy by a thousand year old Tree Demoness. As long as my body remains buried at the foot of that old tree, my soul will forever be enslaved by her.
- There is a human world, and there is a ghost world. As humans, we don't have to worry about ghosts and spirits. This Demon's power has been broken by me. Although power is deep rooted, it will take a hundred years before demon can come out to harm people again. As long as it's okay for now, don't interfere with their affairs.
- I must keep my promise I must bring her ashes back to her birth place. So that she can be reincarnated. I know you don't want to get involved but I can't make it without your help. Master Yin, l beg you. Help me take her ashes back.
- I withdrew from the world because I experienced the snobbery and hypocrisy of the world, so I hid in the ruins of an ancient temple. In front of people, I regarded myself as a ghost. In front of ghosts, I regarded myself as a human being. Until now, I cannot tell the difference between human and ghost. I am a human but I don't want to be a human. She is a ghost and she wants to be a human.
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original title·····倩女幽魂 (Qiànnǚ yōuhún)
language·········Cantonese
Directed by Ching Siu-tung (Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words" 1996, Naked Weapon 2002, An Empress and the Warriors 2008, The Sorcerer and the White Snake 2011)
- We were all tricked. Τhe High Monk is actually a demon. He has already turned many Imperial officials into the walking dead. We have to hurry to the capital and report this to the Εmperor. Once the sun sets, it'll be disastrous!
- So he's the root of all the problems. No wonder the Imperial Court is in a mess.
- I didn't realize demons and spirits are now indistinguishable from mortals. The mortal world is even more chaotic than before!"
- Why don't we roam this earth and fight for justice? Let's work together!
- I'm used to a solitary existence! Last time, when I saved them, I almost didn't make it out alive! When I fought a demon with you this time, I almost lost my life! It's better if we practice our arts separately. Why don't I just come to your rescue, when you're next in trouble?!
- Τhe demon isn't dead yet! We're locked in. We have to find a way out!
- Our flesh is held captive. We can escape only if we separate our spirit from our bodies! Τhis is our only chance. Chant after me!
Directed by Ching Siu-tung (A Chinese Ghost Story 1987, Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words" 1996, Naked Weapon 2002, An Empress and the Warriors 2008, The Sorcerer and the White Snake 2011)
- You weren't being chased by demon. You are a demon. What are you doing? How dare you deceive an honest man? You keep trying to seduce me. I'm a monk I have rules to follow.
- Isn't it a bore being a monk? You can't do what every man wants to do. Don't you feel deprived being a monk?
- Deprived? I never had anything to lose. Pity you're a demon, we could've been friends.
- Why did you betray my Master and Yin?
- How else could I distract the tree demon and save you? We keep trying to be apart. Yet we end up together.
- But where we're going is not for you.
- I know why I've to go. If I don't, you'll all die.
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original title·····倩女幽魂 III：道道道 (Qiànnǚ yōuhún III: Dàodao dào)
language·········Cantonese
Directed by Ching Siu-tung (A Chinese Ghost Story 1987, A Chinese Ghost Story II 1990, Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words" 1996, Naked Weapon 2002, An Empress and the Warriors 2008, The Sorcerer and the White Snake 2011)
"You idiots had five seasons to do it your way, and not one freaking ghost! Well, the network is canceling you. They feel like you've lost your edge. The producer has cooked up the season finale that's gonna save my balls. Little house down in México where some real sicko shit went down. Only the most haunted casa in all of haunted México. Pack your bags, amigos. I want my ratings and some blood dripping horror!"
- I warned you never to mess with the unholy trinity, Never go in attics, always smash mirrors, definitely don't open creepy little toy chests! We're doing everything backwards!
- Get it together. All right, we're not walking out the front door. So we either figure out what's going on or we die...
- Guys, look! Something else is moving the Javi's body.
- Lloyd, your ghost glasses. Your EMF thingy obviously works. Maybe the glasses will, too. You've trained your whole life for this moment. Put the goddamn glasses on!
- You saw what that bastard did to her. She was a ghost and then she just disappeared!
- She's dead dead?.. Are you saying ghosts can kill other ghosts?
- The legend of the Necronomicon has it that long ago the earth was inhabited by a species from another dimension. With certain chants from the book, coupled with ancient rites and sacrifices, this race, the Old Ones, can be brought back.*
- You think it's actually possible that he might believe that?
- The book, the girl. I don't know what to think. If he does believe the legend, from my impression of him, he'd be capable of anything. He's going to try to let the Old Ones through. Whether they exist or not doesn't matter. If he does attempt one of those rituals, that girl is in grave danger.
"I summon you. Come, brother of darkness. Leave your prison and help me bring the Old Ones through. Brother of my blood, my soul, I summon you. The time has arrived. Now we wait no longer. We must act. Upon this sacrifice, shall the journey begin. ::: Yog-o-oth. Yog-o-oth. Join the circle, complete the chain. Yog-Sothoth is the gate whereby the spheres meet. And with the gate open, the Old Ones shall be. Man rules now where they ruled once. They wait, patient and potent, for here they shall reign again, and rule where they once walked. The Old Ones broke through of old, and they shall break through again. Yog-Sothoth! Yog-Sothoth!"
"No man would have mutilated the bodies that way. Listen! What in god's name is that?"
"I found out my transplanted arm belonged to a vicious killer who killed 20 people with his bare hands. I'm somewhat disturbed to learn that I'm not the only beneficiary of Dr. Webb's experiments. I must find out if other experimental subjects are having the same turbulent shifts in mood and activity that I've been experiencing. Does human to human transplants really have a soul of its own?"
- The grafting on of limbs was only the beginning. Science, like nature, destroys to build. I'm part of a process that's bigger than all of us. Now we transplant heads with full brain chemistry and functions intact. Don't you see where this can lead?
- Yeah. Straight to hell!
"The questions I've been asking are quite simply beyond my reach. Where does evil live? Is evil in the flesh? If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Inquiring minds want to know. And life goes on. I've adjusted and accepted the fact that I am the recipient of a miraculous new surgical technique. And to that end, I owe Dr. Webb and Charley"
- The novel you heard on the live stream is called "Godslayer." The author's name is Lu Kongwen. Here's the thing. My boss believes that novel is affecting his health. There's a character called Redmane. Every time, Redmane gets sick or hurt my boss faints. We've tried every "legal" means to stop Lu Kongwen from writing. But nothing has worked. And he has announced that he'll finish the novel in three days. Given the way the plot is developing Redmane will die.**
- Your boss fears being written to death?
- You have to kill the novelist. You only have three days. If you want to find your daughter, this is your last chance.
- From what you wrote. The warrior doesn't seem to be chasing Kongwen. But chasing the girl. Who's the girl?
- The one from Baihan Fang. She lost her parents.
- Your novel. Can it change reality?**
- That's a strange question. I don't know. But I do believe. That the novel's world and people exist somewhere.
"Do you really think a mere mortal like you can slay a god?"**
- I realize now. I wasn't sent to kill Lu Kongwen. I am here to help him finish the story. I had those dreams because my daughter was calling me from the other realm.**
- You think you can write her back to life? You don't have that power.
- Yes I do. Because I believe.
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original title·····刺杀小说家 (Cìshā xiǎoshuō jiā) / Assassinate the Novelist
language·········Mandarin
**
The plot revolves around the karmic connections between certain individuals and their fictional counterparts in a popular web novel, thereby splitting its narrative between reality and the fantasy realm imagined by a young writer.
"The man that I dream of is stalking me. It's no longer just a nightmare he's really here"
- You're one of us now. You will be ours forever.
- This cannot be real. What have I done? I don't know what's real anymore. Am I dreaming? Is this a nightmare?
- You can't escape us Jane. You should've realized that by now. You have a mark on your skin! But the deepest mark is on your heart. On your flesh and in your blood. Just like your mother. You've crossed the limits of reality Jane. There's no going back. Now the truth is within you.
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original title·····Tutti i colori del buio
language·········Italian
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