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Chapter 36 - 36. Release (whole story of 1820 movie)

Sam enters the screening room with Claire in together, accompanying by Philip and his other studio executives.

The Rekzon Studios assigned Timothy Lee as a representative since their chairman was not present in North America.

After taking a seat in the second row, Sam begins chatting with Philip and Timothy about several topics before the light goes out.

The film begins with a regular, black-to-gray lens tone, which effectively combines the frightening mood for the audience.

'A young couple named "Joyce" and "Lisa," who has recently married in the year 1820, traveled an old Virginian town devastated by the war between British and Continental troops.

But afterwards the story takes a turn for the worse as the wife behaves strangely, killing some animals while drinking their raw blood, and Joyce sees this and reluctantly believes that his wife Lisa is possessed by an evil spirit because he is an atheist and does not believe that God and Devil exist.

Desperate to find a solution, Joyce comes across a painting of a lady who was the daughter of the last baron of this fort in a storehouse.

And, with astonishment, he noticed that the lady in the painting appeared to be an exact portrayal of his wife Lisa.

He then tried to find out about the history of the fort from the local town residents, and he found out from others that the daughter of the previous fort owner's head maid had resided alone on the outskirts of town for the past 50 years.

Arriving at the house near the town's outskirts, he meets the elderly lady, who appears to be in her sixties, and describes how his wife appears to be possessed by an evil spirit before showing his wife's photo to her.

After seeing the photo, she whispered, "This is my lady Lisa Spencer, the Spencer family's daughter." While Joyce tried to persuade the elderly lady that this was his wife Lisa Taylor, who also hails from New York as himself.

The old lady gazes at the portrait in surprise since she never expected her lady to return, and she recounted the event that occurred 50 years ago, before the independence fight was won.

This fort had been previously owned by Baron George Miles Spencer, one of many lords who launched the fight against the British in order to liberate the American colonies from British domination.

He and his troops went to engage British soldiers on the Virginia frontier, but his daughter and a few servants remained at the fort.

The baron also send letters on some occasions throughout the next few months.

Half a year later, a soldier from the old baron's squad returns with a letter from the old owner confirming that everything was alright with them.

The kind-hearted Lisa advised the soldier, who seemed hurt in his legs, to stay at the fort until he recuperated and rejoined the baron.

The head maid watches the soldier for a few days and noticed him writing a letter to someone, which she intercepted and read the message, which was sent to the British forces about the fort being unoccupied and that they might attack and seize it.

The head maid proceeds to alert the lady of the soldier's treachery, but he kills her rather and threw her body away.

A week later, Lisa and the head maid's daughter discovered the corpse in a well. At the same moment, an alliance soldier approaches Lisa and informed her that her father's unit had been betrayed by one of his soldiers who had conspired with the British and that all of them had been massacred.

She was devastated to learn of her father's sudden death while thinking of the soldier who delivered the letter indicating that her father was fine, and she becomes suspicious of the soldier living in the fort, so she ordered the alliance soldier to inform Lord William Woodford that the betrayer was living in her fort.

Following the incident, she tries to be normal with the soldier and made some intimate gestures to him, knowing that he was craving for her body.

A few days later, Lisa feared that the soldier was about to flee, so she sacrificed her body one night in order to keep him here until Lord Woodford arrived; on the other side, the soldier eventually obtained her body and took pleasure in enjoying her.

After the door was unlocked from the outside, a large number of continental soldiers, including Lord William, begins flooding inside the room and captures the betrayer.

Seeing Lisa's sacrifice in catching the traitor, Lord William tortured the betrayer till sunrise and then kills him in a horrible way by warning his troops about the fate of betrayers.

The next day, after sending Lord William away, Lisa returned to her bedroom and hanged herself till death since her father passed away and her body had been polluted by someone she loathed.

The old lady finishes narrating the past and informs Joyce that the evil spirit staying in the fort was that of the betrayed soldier who remained there.

And his wife was the same Lisa as her lady, who might have been reincarnated in this life, and if he wanted to save her, he might have to face that dreadful spirit.

Joyce did not back down from the old lady's warning since he wasn't ready to lose his wife to an evil spirit.

After that, Joyce finds an old priest in town and asks for his help, but the priest knows he is unable to ward off the evil spirit in that fort, but he still agrees to help Joyce since he cannot watch a young girl harmed by the evil spirit in the presence of the god.

Joyce, the priest, his apprentice, and the old guard chained Lisa to the bed and attempted to purify her body with holy water, hoping that the evil spirit would leave.

Inside the fort, the elderly guard, apprentice, and priest lose their lives one by one at the hands of the evil spirit while Joyce attempts to catch Lisa.

The final 15 minutes of the film focused on Joyce, an atheist guy who came to believe in God, and how he captivated Lisa and purified her by catching and reading the Bible in her ears.

The film was finished, and the audience in the cinema remained silent for a few seconds before clapping enthusiastically, which reassured both Philip and Timothy.

This film was about, a lot more than horror; it also contained a message about the triumph of good over evil, irrespective of the era.