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Taiwanese horror film Incantation ranked 8th globally on popular streaming site

Taiwanese horror film Incantation ranked 8th globally on popular streaming site

2022-07-17

Incantation, a movie about an evil curse, has gained a reputation for being Taiwan’’s most terrifying film of all time. It’’s earned NT$170 million at the box office, and ranked 8th globally on a popular movie streaming site. Even the gesture used by the movie’’s characters praying to an evil folk god has ignited lively discussion among foreign movie fans. Let’’s get the reaction from the movie’’s director.

Kevin Ko
Incantation Director
I just want to say that I shoot things I really like myself, so after I shot something, I wouldn’t feel like I had let myself down. I never thought of things like rankings. This feels like something that’s happened in a parallel universe. It feels like my dreams have come true. It’s good to see viewers and fans from different parts of the world imitating the gesture in the movie. It’s quite a novel experience. I think this is the best feedback a creator of film could ask for.

Incantation has become the most popular movie on the popular streaming site in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam, setting a milestone for Taiwanese non-mainstream movies.

國片"咒"上架串流 一度擠全球電影第8名

2022-07-17

國片"咒"號稱台灣影史上最恐怖的國片,不只創下1.7億元票房佳績,上架國際串流影音平台後,單日排行更一度擠進全球電影第八名。甚至連電影自創的咒語、手勢,因為沒有語言隔閡,反倒成為國外影迷的討論話題。

[[國片"咒"導演 柯孟融]]
“只是想說拍一個自己真的很喜歡的的東西,然後拍完不會對不起自己,沒有想過排行這麼前面,這好像平行時空裡面發生的事情,就很像夢想成真的感覺,我還滿開心能夠看到世界各地不同的觀眾,或是影迷啊,在比這個手勢的時候,我自己還覺得滿新奇滿開心的,我自己覺得這是對一個拍片的創作者最好的反饋了”

“咒”在日本、香港、新加坡,以及印尼、越南的排行榜上更穩坐冠軍。恐怖片走向國際、創下里程碑,成為"另類"台灣之光。

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