Taiwanese terror comes to Netflix with “Hex”, a chilling mockumentary

Netflix catalog released ‘Hexadecimal’ by Kevin Ko, one of the scariest Taiwanese films of 2022 which return to the mockumentary format in the style of ‘Paranormal Activity’, but with a more intense horror touch. The tape managed to make an impact on local audiences in its country with its chilling story, which is now betting on international streaming audiences.

In recent years, the mockumentary genre with a horror story has been in decline, as many of its latest proposals have gained little popularity or negative criticism. However, Taiwanese cinema has reversed this landscape with some of the films premiered in 2022, one example being “The Medium” and now, more recently, “Hex”.

Although “The Medium” has received mixed reviews from the public, “Magic spell’, as this film is originally known; seems to have a better fate: he was one of the Taiwanese films with the highest grossing of 2022 and the local press has indicated it as one of the most chilling of the year. Opinions that gradually repeated themselves after his arrival on Netflix internationally.

Its chilling story that has since managed to scare even the bravest “Hex” was released in the Netflix catalog internationally; where you can see the intriguing, yet terrifying story, which has led many to believe again in the mixture of terror and mockumentary as it hasn’t been in a long time.

The terror of the ‘Hex’ story

The synopsis of ‘Curse’ tells the story of this mockumentary It is summed up in the journey of three people who try to “dismantle” supernatural myths. However, during one of their visits to a cult, they experience several strange situations that will allow them to start seeing everything differently and yes, creepy.

Everything becomes complicated when in her eagerness to continue her “documentary”, a mother begins to face a race against time to prevent her daughter from being struck by a curse of the sect that has long haunted her family. Being able to save her from her fate that seems already marked by her will not be easy, but she will not give up in any moment.

Unlike other mockumentary productions such as “The Blair Witch” or “Paranormal Activity”, “Hex” tells his horror story from technology, as it is through technology that many of the chilling events bring this terrifying horror story to life. .