The other knight, I was watching the Free Speech channel on TV, which is some kind of Public Access type thing where they can basically put anything on (I know almost nothing about TV channels because I rarely watch it.) It was a Chinese horror movie, that much I know. It seemed like it was both dubbed AND subtitled, oddly. The Chinese dialog in the movie did not sync up with the actors’ lips at all. From what I can remember, it was a very scary film which seemed to take place sometime during the 80s, in some suburban-city area in China. The protagonists of the film, several young men and a woman, were being haunted by some kind of supernatural force which caused them to see horrific things and lapse into periods of murderous rage.
The force of the haunting was coming from this pond that was in back of the protagonist’s house. Through flashbacks, it was shown that sometime in the past, a man drowned in the pond, or was killed by drowning - can’t remember. I think this man was supposed to be some kind of sorcerer or something like that. Anyway, the water from the pond contains the dead man’s spirit, and it possesses whoever drinks it.
For some reason, the people in the film had been drinking the water from the pond, and going crazy. Once possessed by the spirit in the water, several things happened to the people. One is that they saw horrific visions - for example, very weird looking women with long, dark hair covering their faces completely, and in other cases, just hair by itself, coming from the walls and floors and stuff. It was weird, spiky looking hair. At one point hair starts growing from the cover of the toilet seat - at another, it comes from the ceiling. The other thing that happens to the people that drink the water was, they go apeshit and try to kill each other. In one scene, a guy tried to stab his friend to death with a kitchen knife.
Towards the end of the movie some people are tied up in a living room, and the guy who tied them up (i think) did so to keep them from escaping and doing something crazy if they were possessed. It was hard to figure out what was going on - the film ended with one of the guys who was tied up, screaming and shrieking, and then a shot of a hand in the water and then…over. It was a baffling ending.
The most noticeable thing about this movie, to me, was the fact that the whole film took place during the daytime and was very brightly lit. Since most horror movies seem to take place mostly or completely at night, this really struck me and it made the film scarier. Also the cinematography was very low-budget looking. It looked really “real” and not like a movie. It looked like someone just recorded it with a home video camera. All the shots and stuff were really steady and professional and what have you, but the “look” of the film itself was extremely non-produced looking.
Does anyone have any idea what I saw?