This Taiwanese Netflix horror manages to unsettle the viewer from the opening scenes, as we follow a video diary of a young mother regaining custody of her daughter following a tragic accident and her belief that she is cursed by a deity about whom 'the more you understand, the more misfortune befalls you'. Playing very much like Paranormal Activity meets The Blair Witch Project but far more interesting and content-packed than either, with hefty doses of Asian horror tropes along the way. Unlike its American counterparts, Incantation has a fairly relentless barrage of bizarre, disturbing and downright spooky occurrences and images that run alongside flashbacks to her younger past as a paranormal investigator that flesh out the story effectively to show the spirit-bothering breaking of a taboo. The film becomes increasingly hallucinatory and unpleasant, and it is overall a strong and interesting take on the sub-genre.
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