In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.
This week we revisit Incantation (咒), a 2022 Taiwanese religious folk horror found footage movie based on Buddhist ideas and teachings, about a woman who is cursed by an evil deity and tries to find a way to save her child from the same curse.
We talk about how Incantation communicates its ideas and themes and why it was so accessible to us despite the religious and cultural barriers, why the horror of Mother Buddha is so compelling, why Incantation is neither a typical found footage movie nor a typical exorcism movie, and much more.
