Chapter 376: Modern Forum Thread — Does Everly Exist?
One day, a strange post suddenly appeared on the largest general-interest forum in China:
[Did I accidentally watch a bootleg? Revisiting an old movie, why is the plot completely different from what I remember?]
Clicking into the post revealed that the original poster had written a long rant about the movie’s plot.
[1F — OP, Chatterbox]:
I suddenly got the urge to rewatch Carloni’s [The Exorcist] series, so I found a copy online and started watching from the beginning at a leisurely pace. The first few movies seemed pretty normal, but when I got to the fourth one, [Pukati’s Mist], the plot suddenly got weird.
Unless I’m remembering wrong, the victim in this one was supposed to be a single mother raising her daughter alone. After her daughter was abducted by a banshee, she sought out Old Wei. After a series of investigations, Old Wei finally uncovered the evil hidden beneath the town’s dense fog. He followed the clues, broke into the banshee’s lair, unleashed his full power, defeated the banshee, and sealed her away.
But in the version I watched, the victim had become a down-and-out painter who had moved to the town with his daughter. The kidnapped baby was only six months old, right? Yet somehow she wasn’t afraid of the female demon at all. She even knew to call the demon “Mom.”
Wasn’t this banshee supposed to have gone mad because her own child died? But after the baby called her Mom, the banshee stopped eating people. Not only did she raise the baby herself, she even gouged out her own eyeball for the baby to play with. The horror movie suddenly turned into a heartwarming family drama.
And when Old Wei came knocking, he couldn’t completely seal the banshee away because she was missing an eyeball…