Republican Era Horror Records

Overview

In the shadow of a nation grappling with its identity, a groundbreaking ethnographic project ventures into the forgotten corners of Republican Era China, seeking to document the vanishing folklore of a rapidly modernizing land. What begins as an academic pursuit of ancient superstitions and spectral tales soon descends into a chilling descent, as the filmmakers uncover a darkness far more tangible than any legend. The recording devices meant to capture the whispers of the past begin to register something else entirely, something ancient, malevolent, and inextricably bound to the very history they sought to preserve.