The story describes three consecutive horrific and bizarre cases in Taiwan. Because the circumstances of the case were too bizarre and there had never been any similar cases in the past, the Taiwan police requested the assistance of the FBI, and the FBI dispatched the detective. Agent Vince (David Morse) comes to Taiwan to assist.
Huang Huotu (played by Tony Leung), a Taiwanese police officer who was ostracized by his colleagues for exposing corruption and was transferred from the Criminal Division to the Foreign Affairs Division (Foreign Affairs Division), is responsible for reception and translation.
At the beginning, three different deceased people died of the same schizophrenia state. The forensic doctor (played by Yang Guimei) collected an extremely rare mold body from the nasal cavity of the deceased, and deduced that the cause of their death was all caused by mold. Injected steel balls are injected into the air-conditioning and spread through the air. It happened that the three deceased were controversial figures in society.
Huang Huotu led Kevin to investigate the subsequent cases and found that the root cause of everything came from the Taoist temple hidden in a commercial building - the True Immortal Temple. Two of its leaders were once giants in the technology industry. They sold the company because of their excessive religious belief, and the proceeds from the sale were used to build this Taoist temple.
One day, a rich man came to Taoism to find out the whereabouts of his parents' inheritance through Guanluo Yin. However, he was tortured and became the fourth person in the series of murders. deceased. After receiving the notice, the Municipal Criminal Police Department immediately came to the Taoist temple to search, but they were ambushed and killed by the people inside the Taoist temple. Most of the police officers suffered heavy casualties.
On the other hand, Kevin and Huotu tracked down and found that this Taoist temple originally belonged to a deep mountain somewhere in mainland China. The person in charge spent huge sums of money to transport it brick by brick from the local area to Taiwan. They followed Wong Tai Sin's method of becoming an immortal in the Song Dynasty, and went through five kinds of torture, including ice, fire pit, intestine extraction, heart gouging, and tongue pulling out, to meet the requirements for immortality. However, they will choose controversial people in society.
After a careful search in the Taoist temple, a girl was found locked in a cave. A piece of flesh was cut off from the girl's abdomen to cultivate a highly hallucinogenic mold. After everyone sent her to the hospital, Huo Tu found a stone tablet in the temple. The stone tablet recorded clues about the five victims, and it also revealed that Huo Tu's death was imminent.
Huo Tu took Kevin home for dinner to celebrate the detection of the case. After the meal, Kevin and Huo Tu spoke the truth after drinking. Both parties revealed the helplessness and uneasiness in their families. At the same time, Kevin also admired Huo Tu's courage in exposing the corruption case.
Wake up early the next morning, Huotu was shocked. He saw Kevin's body lying in front of him, still holding his severed tongue in his hand, fulfilling the fifth victim on the stone tablet. During the investigation, the police discovered that the air conditioner of Huo Tujia was also infected with mold, and Kevin was infected by this before his death. In addition, Huo Tu found that he was also infected with mold in his nasal cavity and was immediately sent to the hospital after being discovered.
The imprisoned girl found in the Taoist temple suddenly disappeared from the hospital. After Huotu woke up, he asked the doctor, who happened to be the girl's attending physician. After the doctor's explanation, we learned that seventeen years ago, the girl's mother died after giving birth to twins. One of the babies was stillborn, and the other was her. Her real name is Cheyari. She suffered from a brain tumor since she was a child and claimed that she could see her dead sister by her side. Ari was born with double pupils and could see people, ghosts and gods in both the yin and yang worlds. Those believers were bewitched by her. She used the name of cultivating immortals to establish a Taoist temple and then hunted down five victims.
Huo Tu knew that Ari would definitely return to the Taoist temple after he woke up, and immediately rushed to hunt him down. Before he was about to arrest Ari, Huotu was controlled by the mold emitted by Ari and fell into the illusion of inner demons. Finally, Huotu broke through the illusion and shot Yali. Before he died, Yali told him that he had completed his training and was ready to become an immortal. After saying this, Yali died.
After Ari died, Huotu was seriously infected by fungus and fell to the ground dying. When being put on the stretcher, Huotu's wife kept shouting from the side, and the daughter who was originally unable to speak suddenly started calling her father. At this time, Huotu miraculously shed tears, showing new vitality.
It turns out that the original stone tablet also analyzed four additional words, which were "love, immortality".
Extended information:
The double pupils are said to be "cold horror", and the whole film has a deep cold tone. The Chinese religion's saying about going to hell is packaged in the structure of a Hollywood thriller, and the effect is pretty good, especially the part at the end where Tony Leung finds the evil double-eyed woman in the secret room, which is trance-like and confusing, very much like "The X-Files" 》The taste.
But compared with the endings of "The Sixth Sense" and "The Island", it is still far behind. In terms of actors, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Rene Liu's performance was acceptable, and the performance of Hollywood actor David Morse was also commendable. Director Chen Guofu's performance can be said to be skillful. For example, when the first person was killed, the female secretary came closer to take a look. The camera turned to a close-up of the corpse's head, and then back again to show the forensic doctor's gloved hands. Come and touch your head, so that the whole process from discovery to calling the police to the arrival of the police can be explained very concisely.