Hellbound Village (Tết Ở Làng Địa Ngục) - First Season

ALL STORYLINES AND IMAGES IN THIS WORK ARE FICTITIOUS.

ANY SIMILARITIES ARE COINCIDENTAL.

Do you know who I am?

ADAPTED FROM THE PERIOD HORROR NOVEL BY THAO TRANG

IN THE LAST EPISODE

Tu just committed murder!

Have you ever heard of

something called Skull Wine?

Congee Tu was a brute, a menace.

But I had no idea

he had collected such bad karma.

So are the carps ready yet?

Tomorrow morning you'll go with me, yeah?

May!

Come down and play with me.

My love is a big drum...

What a pain you are.

What now? A pain, how?

Pain, huh?

Here's pain.

Some more pain. Oh?

You say I'm a pain,

but last night you didn't let me sleep.

So who's the pain here?

It's your fault,

leaving me here for days.

I didn't mean to.

In fact, I was so troubled.

That guy, Mr. Tam, he has helped me plenty.

Now, he has to take care of the funeral.

Had I not stayed, it would have felt wrong.

I heard your story, and it gave me great chills.

I never thought

that in life there'd be such freakish stories.

You are right.

Even I, who witnessed it all, didn't even want to believe it.

Mr. Tam of late,

he's in horrid shape.

His house still has no kids,

and now there's no wife either.

I don't even know how he'll get through things.

Tam's house also can't conceive like ours?

Then we share the same struggle.

My dear.

Yes?

Do you still take your medication?

I still do.

Last month, Madam Tu gave me new herbal mixes.

Here's hoping our kid will get to be here.

I'd give up anything.

You will have a kid.

You'll have one right now.

A kid!

Stop!

What?

It's way past morning.

I must cook for the Kitchen God.

If it's noon and there's no offering,

that's bad karma.

Come here, I'll tie it.

I can do it!

Those in your village

will continue to die.

Mr. Tam.

Oh, Mr. Tam!

Mr. Tam!

Like a lost ghost or something.

Demon! Beast! Ghost! Creature!

It's me.

You awake yet?

Just a cripple, not a creature.

Right.

So?

Stop now. If you're up, we go.

But wait.

Huh?

So I am...

still alive.

Or have you died with me?

Are you fully awake or not? Huh?

Wait, wait.

You, just try and hit me.

-Try and hit you? -Yes.

Whoa, really taking your chance, there!

Really.

Go home and rest.

I think I'm just dreaming.

Sure thing.

-I smell a bit mature. -Oh God!

-Hey, Mr. Tam. -Huh?

I forgot!

What a scary dream.

23RD DECEMBER

-Late blooms for this Tet. -They are beautiful, though!

It's also a lot colder, right?

Indeed It's much colder this year.

Hach!

Hach!

Are you home?

Hach!

Hach!

Oh, Hach!

Hach!

Let's release some fish!

Oh, Hach! You home?

This girl.

Asking me to come over early only to disappear.

Madam Tu!

You're done with the offerings way early, no?

I have to be so the Land Genie and Kitchen God

can be up in Heaven's Court on time.

MADAM TU - SIR KHAN'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

Leave it later and they'll all be sick.

Are you done?

Hey! Who's that up there?

Didn't village rules bar butchering near the creek?

Mrs. Thap!

-That you, Mrs. Thap? -It is I.

Madam Tu and everyone have finished with the offerings?

Oh! You know what?

I was up way early,

before the rooster, even.

Done with everything.

Had plenty of free time, as a result.

Madam Tu and all are so diligent.

Can't say the same for Mr. Thap.

I bet you he's still enjoying his rolled tobacco at home.

You're talking silly, missus.

All of us here,

all year, all our lifetime, we can't leave the village.

We know absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile, your husband can be here and there,

can know this and that.

That's wonderful!

That law applies to our entire village.

No one except Mr. Thap can go down the mountain.

That's true!

-Someone's dead! -Is that May's voice?

What's wrong with her?

Everyone!

What is wrong?

Someone's dead!

Where?

Who died?

There! There's a dead body!

Someone's dead! Fish attack!

A deadly fish attack!

The fish killed her!

Move aside!

The fish have killed someone!

The fish have killed someone!

-Mr. Thap! -Carnivorous fish! Careful!

Hey there, watch out!

There are still many fish.

Murderous fish! Good heavens!

Bring her in! Mr. Thap!

Help her!

Ma'am, please take my wife home.

-Let's go back now. -There!

Do something.

Everyone! Find a way to get the body.

-Get that body out. -No! I'm afraid!

What are you afraid of?!

Come here quickly!

Everyone, everyone...

Help her!

You all! Get a stick to pull the body out.

Absolutely do not enter the water.

The fish are fierce!

All...

Nhanh lên.

Go and find a stick, something to get the body.

The fish are fierce. Stay away from the water.

-Where? Let me see. -Who is it?

Who is that?

It's little Hach!

Hach!

My daughter!

Good gods!

-Hold Madam Tu back! -Get her up.

Madam!

-Go in. -Come back, madam!

Let go of me!

Get her down first.

-Let go of me! -Hach!

Hach!

Hold Duc back!

Calm down.

Calm down.

-Let go of me. -Calm down.

Don't go near there.

Get away!

Hach!

Quickly!

How unjust!

Almost there.

The fish are still biting!

Here, pull fast.

Let go!

Let me go!