Post Mortem (2020) Movie Script
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[brooding music]
[bombs exploding]
[men shouting]
[men scream]
[men shouting]
[bombs exploding]
[music continues]
[girl] Toms.
Toms.
[ethereal music]
[brooding music]
[man groaning]
[corpse thuds]
- [corpse thuds]
- [Toms gasps]
[Toms groans]
[Toms wheezing]
[Toms coughing]
[water dripping]
[music continues]
That must've hurt.
Could be from the blast force.
[dark music]
[bright music playing]
[crowd chattering indistinctly]
[hens cluck]
[goat bleating]
- [man grunting]
- [chains clink]
[old man] Chronic pain.
Suffering.
You only know if
you've been to the other side.
Step right up!
Listen to the man
who came back from death!
From the very place
I will show you how we end up.
Have you ever thought about
or have you ever wondered
where did your loved ones go
after finishing
their earthly life?
Are you plagued
by curiosity and fear?
Find out
the future of all mortals!
Pay just a few to hear,
hear the dark story,
what the man
who came back from death
saw in the afterlife!
All of this, I saw it!
I came from death pure.
Together we will go.
We shed light
upon the eternal mystery!
Come find out what happens
when we all lay to ground.
[muffled soft music]
Post mortem photo.
[music continues]
She's beautiful.
She's in no pain.
She's in peace now, tranquility.
[man] Supposedly there are whole
villages that got wiped out
by the Spanish Flu.
In our village, only
I got sick, and the little girl.
There are worse ways to go.
That I didn't die?
You call that lucky?
[old man] I was levitating
in bright light,
my body weightless,
and the air flowed through me,
and even though
I wasn't breathing.
And then, the loveliest
woman I have ever seen
floating,
she lifted me, my soul.
- [loud bang]
- [people gasp]
Lights trembled
and flickered around us,
like the flames of
a thousand candles.
Let's arrange
her hands nicely like this.
[old man] All pain and hunger
were gone!
- Everything was there for me.
- [pearls clinking]
[old man] I myself
was the whole world.
[old man continues indistinctly]
And that is perfect.
[flash bangs]
I was filled
with calm and peace.
And were you there alone?
But how could I have been
alone in such terrible times,
when there are more
dead than there are living?
When the earth is
overrun with ghosts and death?
[Toms] And we're done.
- [neck cracks]
- [eerie music]
[Toms]
I'll be right back.
[old man speaking indistinctly]
What are you doing here?
You take pictures of the dead?
As you can see.
[girl] We have dead too.
We who?
In our village.
Will you come?
If you pay me.
Can you take pictures of
the dead and the ghosts too?
- You can't photograph ghosts.
- [eerie music]
[sheet flaps]
I'd better go. They're waiting.
[eerie music]
[ethereal music]
[old man] Life found me
and grabbed my hand
and yanked me
out of the chasm!
[crowd gasps]
[crowd mumbles]
- [indistinct chattering]
- [birds squawking]
[ethereal music]
Oh, final photo of the diseased.
Hmm. Nice souvenir.
Such lovely pictures.
Joska, wouldn't it be nice if...
We can't bring all
those dead bodies over here.
Can I help you?
[gentle music playing]
How many dead could they have?
[Toms] That is not
why I'm going there.
Sure, you said
because of the girl.
But she's just a child.
[Toms] I never said she wasn't.
If I recall, you're the one
who said she was a beauty.
I'm only telling them
what you told me to tell them.
And then you added more.
This is what
they pay me for, right?
If the story is too plain,
I don't get such a big audience.
- And will you be gone long?
- A few days.
I'll catch up with
the caravan later this week.
All this such a fuss over a kid.
It was her I saw.
You don't understand anything.
[ominous music]
[Imre] The earth is frozen.
If it hadn't, we'd have
buried them a long time ago.
What a disgrace,
those poor dead,
unburied for weeks
and weeks, ugh! Horrible!
Tibor's poor widow,
Jutka, talks nonsense too.
Her husband was
in bad health anyway.
What a burden
to care for the sick.
You, so what did
you say your name was, son?
- Toms.
- Tamas?
Toms.
Toms, that's a good name.
We'd say Tamas here,
but Toms is good too.
Toms.
[ominous music]
[horse huffs]
[horse neighs]
[music continues]
[horse huffs]
[music continues]
[horse neighs]
[Imre] Anna, the basket!
[tongue clicks]
[eerie music]
[Anna] Auntie! Auntie!
[music continues]
[man] No, no, never!
[door clanks]
[music continues]
[water bubbling]
[woman] Come on!
[dog barking, snarling]
- Get out of here!
- [dog whimpers]
The animals are nervous here.
[chuckles slightly] Come on.
[water sloshes]
[eerie music]
[Joska] There will be
a room at Marcsa's.
[knocking on door]
He needs a room. Can he stay?
Just for a few days.
- In there?
- Yes.
I'll warm up the quilt later.
Are you hungry?
Are you hungry, son?
- Yes, I am.
- He is.
I heard him too.
Off you go. I'll feed him.
[Joska chuckles]
- [door thuds]
- Sit down.
Thank you, ma'am.
- You're not Hungarian.
- [Toms] No.
[Marcsa] German?
Yes.
[Marcsa] A photographer,
I heard.
Yes.
You're not a big talker, huh?
[dog barking]
Anna, where are you going?
Can I come with you?
Only if you're not
scared of the dead.
[ominous music]
[Anna] It's really nice here
in summer.
[Toms] I can imagine.
Your mother let you out so late?
I don't have a mom, only Auntie.
And your father?
He went to the war.
- The war is long over.
- I know.
- You haven't heard from him?
- No.
- How old are you?
- 20. 10.
[music continues]
Come on!
Uncle Simon,
Aunt Anna,
Gyongyike, Uncle Arpi,
Uncle Zoltan, Peter Tulipan,
Anna Tulipan, Marika Tulipan,
Ede Schwartz, Zoltan Schwartz,
Mrs. Janos Beck, Mr. Janos Beck.
Little Feri and
I used to smoke here.
- Did I scare you?
- Oh, my.
- Who's Little Feri?
- [anna] A village boy.
He went to the war too.
He and I smoked.
So where did
you get the cigarettes?
He stole them from his grandpa.
Have you ever been on a tram?
Yes. Even the one
that runs underground.
That doesn't exist.
Believe me, there is.
Let's go. Auntie's waiting.
[dogs barking in distance]
[eerie music]
[voices moaning, coughing]
[wind howling]
[lock clicks]
- [door creaks]
- [ominous music]
Marcsa?
[door clicks]
[muffled yelling]
[ominous music]
[music continues]
[distorted voice shrieks]
[door creaks]
[door thuds]
[ominous music]
[eerie music]
- [footsteps thudding]
- [distorted voice moaning]
[Toms gasps]
[panting]
[dark music]
[hinge creaks]
- [suspenseful music]
- [panting]
[brooding music]
Is somebody there?
[music continues]
[door bangs]
[breathing deeply]
[distorted voice shrieks]
[gasps]
[panting]
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
There was a noise in the night.
Are you afraid of the dark?
Only if there's something scary.
[Imre sniffs] I closed up the
house when my poor sister died.
[door creaks]
Well,
this is the house.
- Shall we remove the boards?
- [Toms] No need.
A dark room like this
is perfect for me.
[eerie music]
It'll be fine.
Well...
They had all
this nice furniture.
You can sleep here
too if you want.
Thank you, but Marcsa...
She's the schoolteacher.
Did she tell you?
Except there
are no kids anymore.
But there will be, you'll see.
And Anna?
[Imre] Anna?
Well, she has no parents.
Auntie takes care of her,
but it's Anna who really cares
for Auntie since her stroke.
Anna's a good child.
It'll be nice and warm soon.
Take these. I'll be going.
- I'll let you work.
- Thank you.
[gentle music playing]
[closet door creaking]
[door bangs]
Imre allowed it.
Yes, I know that.
[music continues]
Thanks.
It is barely frozen.
Was she his sister?
[man] No, we already
brought her in last night.
I didn't even notice.
I also wanted
to tell you that...
[music continues]
Would I be able to...
[soft piano music playing]
[fire crackling]
[bone crackling]
[eerie music]
[bone crackling]
[Toms grunts]
[music continues]
[ominous music]
[hinges creaking]
[flash pops]
[bone creaking]
[knocking on door]
[perfume puffing]
Look this way, please.
[flash pops]
[eerie music]
[flash pops]
[woman]
You worked magic on my husband.
I never thought
I would see him like this again.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
I will let you know when
the photos are ready, okay?
I'm gonna frame it.
I'll put it in a lovely frame.
[eerie music]
[music continues]
Please lower your hands.
- Like this?
- [Toms] That's fine.
[flash pops]
[knocking on door]
I already saw at the market.
I know what you do.
She looks really nice.
You can hardly tell she's dead.
Auntie said that a few years ago
when I was born,
I was dead too.
What do you mean, dead?
My umbilical cord strangled me.
And my Auntie rubbed me
until I came back to life.
Do you remember it?
[Anna] Not how the old man
described at the fair,
not like that.
- [ghost snarls]
- [corpse thuds]
[ghost growls]
What was that?
I don't know.
May I have a look?
Little girls like you are
usually afraid of the dead.
I'm only afraid of ghosts.
[ghost snarling]
I have to go.
[low ominous music]
Lacika, won't you take it off?
[Lacika] Mother won't let me.
Does she think
it'll protect you?
- Are you scared of me?
- [Lacika] No way.
Only of ghosts.
- [Anna] I'm no ghost.
- [goat bleats]
Is your goat
a little bit bloated?
No! She's having kids.
She'll just fart and that's it.
You will see.
[both bleating]
[goat bleating]
[door opens, closes]
[eerie music]
One, two, three.
[ominous music]
[music continues]
[suspenseful music]
[camera clicks]
[music continues]
[camera clicking]
[woman screams]
- [dramatic music]
- [woman panting]
[people clamoring]
[clamoring continues]
[man] Klari!
Klari!
Klari!
Klari!
Klari!
[door thudding]
Klari!
[people coughing]
Get water!
- [dramatic music]
- [woman shrieks]
[people clamoring]
[woman sobbing]
[camera clicks]
She won't come out!
[women shrieking]
[women screaming]
[ax thudding]
[women whimpering]
[intense music]
[people screaming]
[camera clicks]
[water dripping]
[women screaming]
They are there, right?
They are on it. They did it.
What do you want here?
[ominous music]
What do you want?
- [objects clattering]
- [ghosts grunting]
[intense music]
- No!
- Anna!
Anna!
It's okay.
It's okay. It's over.
They're gone.
[panting]
Hey, calm down,
sweetie, they're gone now.
Don't worry.
I'll take you away from here.
[Anna] Where would we go?
The ghosts are everywhere!
That's not true. I've never seen
something like that.
[Anna]
You shouldn't have come here!
Now they're angry at us too!
This is all our fault, Toms!
Why would it be our fault?
I don't know, but they've never
hurt anyone before, never!
And now everything's changed.
Go away!
- Anna.
- You have to go away!
- Go away!
- [Toms] Anna!
Go away!
Then I'm taking
you away with me.
I belong here and you don't!
Only you can leave!
[Toms] Anna!
Anna, wait!
[wind whistling]
[Toms] They are everywhere.
You won't say anything?
What should I say?
[chair scrapes]
[clock ticking]
What's going on?
How long have they been here?
Say something already!
You all must be scared.
What do you wanna hear,
for God's sake?
The war took almost all the men.
We had to send
even the very young ones,
and the Spanish Flu put
the remainder in the grave,
and now here we are
with the frozen earth
and our unburied dead.
What do you want?
What more should I fear?
Why should I worry?
There's nothing left here.
I'm leaving tomorrow.
[Marcsa] Good for you.
Just leave this mess behind!
You're just making
things worse instead of helping.
[eerie music]
[brooding music]
[ghost growling]
- [panting]
- [dog barking in distance]
[eerie music]
[music continues]
[horse huffs]
Toms!
Toms!
[panting]
Toms.
[animal calling]
[eerie music]
[Anna] Toms!
[dark music]
[Anna] Toms!
Anna?
[Anna] Toms!
Anna!
- [intense music]
- [Anna whispering]
[screams]
- [gasping]
- [horse nickers]
[soft dramatic music]
[sniffles]
[door opens]
We'll solve it out.
We'll solve it out.
I'm leaving.
Okay. I'll bring you some food.
[Toms] Thanks.
[door creaks]
[Anna] Aunt Ilus, will
you tell us what you saw?
Well, I didn't really see much,
but somebody seemed to
run across the roof, I think.
And the dirt fell from
the thatch wherever they went.
- Did you hear sounds?
- Not then.
I usually hear the sighs,
and I feel the cold too.
Then the ladder fell,
even though it had
been against the wall for ages.
That's all I know.
[ominous music]
[door opens]
Oh, here's Aunt Keresztes.
Right in time.
These two are asking about
what have been happening here.
I heard you were here,
that's why I came.
- Maybe I can help.
- Good morning. For sure.
I don't know much either,
except I was there
at the start of winter.
I was there when all this began.
It began there?
I don't know exactly when.
I wouldn't say so, but that's
when more of them appeared.
Please tell us more.
And once...
Say it.
They were in my house at night.
It grabbed my ankle
with its ice-cold hand.
I felt only the bones, there
was no flesh on it anymore.
And did it hurt you?
It didn't, it just
scared me, love.
It came another time.
I spoke to it,
but it didn't answer,
I only smelled it,
and the wall
turned moldy by morning,
as if...as if it had rotted,
pardon the expression.
And then it never came again.
Do you know
who it might have been?
You mean, it could
have been someone?
I don't know, it might.
[Aunt Keresztes]
Many died around that time.
My husband and two brothers
died in the damned war.
Do you think
it was one of them, dear?
I truly don't know.
Anyhow, they'd never do anything
like what they did to Klari.
Annie dear, take
the young man to see Emi, too.
Thank you.
[crow cawing]
Did you come back because of me?
I did.
Okay, good.
[brooding music]
[wind blowing]
[leaves rustling]
[brooding music]
There's no footprints.
You'd see them in the dust.
[woman whimpering]
[eerie music]
[woman whimpering]
Poor Aunt Klari.
[woman whimpering]
- [house rumbling]
- [intense music]
[wood creaking]
We'd better get out of here.
[knocking on door]
May we come in?
Before the war, I was
a servant nearby, in the city.
At the judge's house.
His wife always
believed in ghosts and spirits.
There were three of
us maids in the house.
Lots of children and relatives,
visitors coming and going,
so they needed the help.
That woman used
to summon up ghosts.
We just laughed.
People like us don't
believe in such things.
Some don't even believe in God!
But one time,
the judge fell sick.
They called the priest to him.
And then that woman summoned
the spirits with her friends,
and asked them
not to take her husband.
And he lived.
Even though
we all saw that his life
had been hanging by a thread.
But the ghosts
remained in the house.
[tense music]
How do you know they stayed?
They broke the porcelain.
Made a lot of trouble.
They pushed one of
the maids down the stairs.
- They were evil.
- And then?
[Emi] They called
the priest to cast them out.
They burned sage in every room.
They sprinkled
holy water on the ashes.
- Did it work?
- It didn't.
Only years later, when
the master died, did they leave.
They don't like people
talking about such things here,
but I've been hearing
them sighing for many months.
[sighs]
I don't know if
any of this helps.
You said you heard them,
and you hear them now.
Do they say anything?
Can you understand them?
They just whisper and moan.
They are not human sounds.
I see.
Did you talk to Jutka already?
It's chicory.
But better than nothing.
Will you tell us?
Nobody believes me,
and now even I don't know if
what really happened that way.
He was in that chair
where you're sitting now.
I was down in the cellar.
There was
a whistling sound and his head,
it sank into his body and...
I just stood here in
the doorway, frozen,
not knowing what to do.
And he died.
And everything was wet.
Water ran down the walls.
- May I look around?
- Sure.
I have to go and
feed the animals anyway.
And thanks again,
for the photograph.
Is anybody here?
If you can hear us, answer!
If you can hear us, answer!
[object clangs]
Who's there?
[suspenseful music]
[Toms] There's nothing here.
[ghost chitters, growls]
[door bangs]
[suspenseful music]
[ghost grunts]
[dramatic music]
Tibor!
Jutka!
[Anna] Tibor!
Tibor!
What are you doing?
[Anna] Tibor!
Jutka!
Jutka!
[Tibor screaming]
Tibor!
[music continues]
Jutka!
Help me, Jutka!
Tibor!
- Tibor!
- [Tibor screaming]
- [Toms screaming]
- [ghost growling]
- [Tibor screaming]
- [Jutka] Tibor!
Tibor!
[Tibor screaming]
[eerie music]
[hens clucking]
Anna, everything okay?
I've lost my mind, right?
I don't think so.
Where do you keep
your husband's body?
Poor thing is there,
in the barn.
[door creaks]
[eerie music]
[door creaks]
- Who are they?
- [Anna] People from here.
The baker, his daughter, his
wife, Aunt Klari, Aunt Joli--
Slow down.
Janos,
Uncle Vince, Mari,
Father Gabor,
little Gergo,
Zolika, and Gabi.
Do you know why they all died?
They died of
the Spanish Flu. And them two.
And the priest?
[eerie music]
So beautiful.
Spongy chest,
gray face, waxy skin.
Suffocation.
How do you know so much?
All I did was work
beside the old man,
arranging dead bodies.
Will you teach me too?
Certainly not!
It's not for little girls.
I won't be
a little girl forever.
But you are certainly now.
- [camera clicks]
- Is he the priest?
Yes, Father Gabor.
Do you have
a new priest already?
No, we don't.
But everyone's at
church anyway every Sunday.
And the others?
Uncle Vince froze to death.
- How?
- [Anna] They don't know.
He was a shepherd
he fell asleep.
[camera clicks]
[Toms] They're frozen now too,
so you can't tell he froze.
[camera clicks]
- And Tibor?
- He's here.
[dark music]
Traces of force trauma.
Clear bruising on the chest,
despite the rigor mortis.
You see, Anna?
It wasn't your fault.
How do you know?
Because of these bruises.
Why, does everyone have them?
No, only them.
- The soldiers?
- No, Anna, look.
Klari has it too, see?
And what causes it?
I had it too.
It's a product
of the blast force.
It feels like you get
hit everywhere all at once.
- Does it hurt?
- It does.
And can you die of it?
So the ones who did it are...
Yes, they do it.
The ghosts.
Jesus Christ!
They can move the air,
do you understand that?
They can use the air
to create a blast force.
We have to find
out what they want.
But they don't speak.
At Jutka's it seemed like
they were trying to talk to us.
I think they were trying
to communicate something,
that's why
they were pushing and shoving.
They could have
killed us, like Tibor.
But they didn't.
Because they wanted
to speak to us,
only we couldn't understand.
That woman also said
that she could hear them.
We'll record
it with a phonograph.
We will have photographs of them
and we will hear their voices.
[liquid dripping]
[Toms] They're on this one too.
[dark music]
It's like the dead are
attracting the ghosts somehow.
My God.
There's so many of them!
- [man screaming]
- [suspenseful music]
[Anna screams]
[door creaks]
[tense music]
[bells chime]
[door thuds]
[Toms] Thank you.
Help scatter it around.
[ominous music]
[bells chime]
[bells chime]
- [Anna] What are you doing?
- I'll record their voices.
Do you see this?
This thin panel
vibrates from the sound,
the tip scratches the cylinder,
and when I switch this,
the scratches are traced
and reveal the vibration,
which is the sound.
We just need to
fasten it with something
so it'll start when it needs to.
How's this?
Well, that's just swell.
[tense music]
Wait right there.
- [Anna] What's this?
- [Toms gasps, sighs]
Are you trying to
give me a heart attack?
What's that?
Pinhole camera.
There's this tiny hole in it
where the light comes in, here,
and it projects an image
onto the inside plate inside.
We will see.
So we have to come
back for it before dawn, okay?
I'm cold.
It's terribly cold, isn't it?
[soft music]
[Anna]
Marcsa sent you some wine.
It was you there, right?
Where?
It was you who came
back from death back then,
it wasn't the old man.
Yeah.
[dark music]
[Anna] You seem dead.
[Toms]
The old man said the same.
It must have been
a mine or a grenade.
[Anna] And?
I don't know.
Well, the old man said he pulled
me out from the crater.
There was water everywhere.
He saw me among the other dead,
and thought
that I might still be live.
That's what Auntie said too.
[Toms] What?
She said I might still be alive.
She said I was suffocating,
I was stuck,
but she pulled me out by force.
Then I didn't cry.
She just rubbed me for
a long time to warm my blood,
and then I cried out.
Sometimes she's sorry
she forced me back into life.
Auntie thinks it was wrong.
I think it was right.
And you don't remember anything?
What it was like being there.
I remember something.
What the old man
said at the fair
about the floating figure?
He heard that from me,
but then he added things
to make it more entertaining.
But I remember.
So then I'm not
the only reason you came back.
You came back for yourself too.
Because of you, and myself too.
[music continues]
[door creaks]
[whispers] Go, go on. Run!
[woman]
What are you doing there?
The heat will escape!
Lacika's mother will
be angry too, you'll see!
[door thuds]
[eerie music]
[rumbling]
[bird caws]
[suspenseful music]
- [wind swooshes]
- [Lacika yelps]
- [wind swooshes]
- [door thuds]
- [thudding on roof]
- [dark music]
- [thudding continues]
- [suspenseful string music]
[rattling, thudding]
[bells chime]
[suspenseful music]
[bells chime]
They're here!
[dark music]
[animal grunts]
[breathing shakily]
[Lacika whimpering]
[panting]
- [dramatic music]
- [Lacika gasps]
[thudding, banging]
[Lacika screaming]
[flash pops]
[thudding]
[door creaks]
[eerie music]
Lacika?
[ghost growling]
- [dramatic music]
- [both screaming]
Lacika!
Lacika!
Lacika!
[Lacika screaming]
- [flash pops]
- [bells chiming]
- [Lacika screaming]
- [thudding]
[bells chiming]
[Anna screams]
[bells chiming]
It's beneath us.
[dark music]
[suspenseful music]
- [Lacika screaming]
- [thudding]
- [suspenseful music]
- [ghost grunting]
- [bell chimes]
- [flash pops]
[Anna shrieks]
Anna!
[bell chimes]
[corpse gasping]
Toms!
[bells chiming]
[dramatic music]
[woman] Lacika!
Lacika! Lacika!
[flash pops]
[fire crackling]
[Toms panting]
[door creaks]
[whispering]
Stay close to me, okay?
[whispering] I'm scared.
[Toms] Nothing.
There's nothing here.
You will wait here.
I will get the camera.
[door creaks]
[suspenseful music]
[dramatic music]
[ominous music]
[low growling]
[bell chimes]
[ghost chitters]
[ghost shrieks]
- [bells chime]
- [corpses thud]
Are you here? Don't leave!
If you can hear us, speak to us!
Please tell us what to do!
What do you want?
Why are you hurting people?
We want to help!
[panting] They're gone.
Wait! Don't step on the prints!
There are no prints.
[eerie music]
[flash pops]
What was that?
Okay, I'll go grab
the things. Don't move.
Shall I help?
Go rest, Anna.
[door opens]
[door shuts]
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
I'd like to bathe.
I just boiled the water.
Thank you.
[door creaks]
[soft music]
[water sloshing]
[static crackling]
[soft scraping]
Set it back.
[static crackling]
[soft scratching]
Play it again.
[static crackling]
[soft scratching]
Hmm.
There's nothing on it.
And this?
Eh, that could be anything.
I'll go develop the pictures.
[static continues]
[door opens, shuts]
[static crackling]
[Toms] They're here!
They're on it!
I didn't hear you!
On one of the photos.
I'm almost done here.
[static crackling]
[voice whispering indistinctly]
[static crackling]
[voice whispering indistinctly]
Toms! I hear the ghost!
It's spinning too fast. Listen.
I can't hear. What is it?
It's unclear.
I don't understand.
Wait, the pic.
Shut it off for a moment!
[Anna] But this is impossible!
- [Toms] And this one?
- [Anna] They took this.
See?
They're only
around one of the two.
What is this on
the boy's forehead?
He got trapped under the ice,
at the lake nearby.
When?
I don't know,
but Auntie always tells me
not to go on the ice
or I'll end up like the twin
who fell through the ice.
And what happened to him?
I guess they pulled him out.
You can only go
on the ice with a ladder.
He doesn't talk much since.
And the pinhole camera?
What's this black streak?
[Toms] I don't know.
And the voices?
[Anna] Listen,
you have to slow it down.
[static crackling]
[voice on recording] Take me.
Take.
Toms, take me to the grave.
Toms, take me to the grave.
Toms!
- Toms!
- [banging on door]
Do you know something?
The photographer took pictures
of all the ghosts in town.
[indistinct chattering]
He recorded their voices too.
Are there many?
Yes, there are many, a lot.
Are they our dead?
[Anna]
There are way more than that.
I knew it wasn't our folk.
Our folk wouldn't hurt us.
What do they want?
We don't know.
But Toms will find out.
- He'll talk to them.
- [Jutka] How?
That's all I know.
[tense music]
[Anna] But that's my house.
[Toms] Good day.
[Anna] Aren't you cold, Auntie?
[tense music]
It's blood.
[music continues]
[people singing faintly]
[knocking on door]
Good morning!
Is there anybody there?
[music continues]
- [water dripping]
- Hello?
Is there anybody home?
[tense music]
[woman shrieks]
Erzsi! Erzsi!
[Anna panting]
My God.
Oh, my God!
- My God!
- I knew you'd
bring trouble on us!
May God forgive us. Let's pray.
The stranger made them angry!
All of you, get
out of here right now!
[Marcsa] What happened?
[women crying]
[man whimpering]
[Anna] Enough! Enough!
[dramatic music]
[people whimpering]
[crowd screaming]
[crowd screaming]
[intense music]
[ghosts snarling]
[people whimpering]
[thudding]
[crowd screaming]
[debris clatter]
[all gasping]
- [suspenseful music]
- [water dripping]
- [women whimpering]
- [dogs barking]
[frost crackling]
[women screaming]
[man] Get behind us, Satan!
Let the souls
depart in peace, my Lord.
- [bell tolling]
- [man] Harmful being, be gone!
The Lord will protect us!
Move on to the afterlife!
Show the path for
righteous lost souls!
- Deliver us from
Satan's evil temptations!
- [women praying]
[man] May the devil take
you back from where you came!
And give us peace, my Lord!
- [house rumbles]
- [man] All souls
praise the Lord!
- [man] All souls
praise the Lord!
- [woman] My God!
- [man] Deliver us from evil!
- Sweet Lord!
[man] May the devil take
you back from where you came!
All souls praise the Lord!
All souls praise the Lord!
The Holy Spirit will protect us!
[crowd screaming]
[ghost chittering]
[ghost snarling]
[screaming continues]
[crowd screaming]
[wheels creaking]
[crowd screaming]
[dramatic music]
[screaming continues]
[door creaks]
[ghosts snarling]
[crowd screaming]
[ghosts snarling]
- [intense music]
- [Auntie gasping, groaning]
Auntie! Auntie!
Auntie! Auntie!
[distorted voice]
Toms! Take me to the grave!
Toms!
Take me to the grave!
Take me to the grave!
[Anna] Auntie!
Auntie! Auntie!
Auntie!
[tense music]
[ghost snarling]
[tense string music]
Into the church!
Everybody inside, come on!
[crowd clamoring]
- [dark music]
- [ghost snarling]
[crowd clamoring]
[woman gasps]
[distorted voice]
Now you are going to join us!
You will give up the ghost!
[women crying]
[people panting]
Anna?
Anna!
Anna, are you here?
[door rattling]
[man] Don't open it!
- [woman] No!
- Let me out!
- Let me out!
- [woman] Don't let him open
the door! No!
[suspenseful music]
[door thuds]
- [man] No!
- [man 2] Let him out!
Let me out! Let me go!
Let me go!
[woman] No, don't let him leave!
No, don't let him out!
[door creaks]
Anna! Anna!
[tense music]
[Toms panting]
[Auntie groaning]
Anna!
Anna!
Toms!
[suspenseful music]
Auntie!
Auntie!
Annie!
Toms!
Toms, Auntie's gonna die.
She's dying!
I gotta get Anna back!
- [Marcsa] Anna!
- Anna!
- Anna!
- [Anna panting]
Look at me, Anna!
Anna, look at me!
They will let you go. I promise!
Auntie's dying.
[tense string music]
Auntie!
Auntie will pull them to her!
She'll take the ghosts
into the afterlife! Of course!
She'll lead them! Understand?
They need the dying!
Like I was, Anna, and the twin!
And the judge too!
They leave with the dying!
We must gather
all the ghosts here!
But how?
We have to bring the dead here!
The dead attract the ghosts!
All the unburied dead!
Bring all the dead!
I'll stay here with Anna.
- [tense music]
- [Auntie grunting]
[suspenseful music]
[Auntie whimpers]
Toms, I can't.
[Toms grunting]
We need everybody to
help bring the dead here!
You heard him, people! Let's go!
Stop! You've opened
the door for the devil!
The evil is with you!
Get out of here!
[man grunts]
Quickly! Auntie's
barely breathing!
[suspenseful music]
[panting] We're gonna die!
Hurry up!
- [wheels creaking]
- [dark music]
Where are you taking him, huh?
It will help us, you'll see.
- I'm not going in there.
- Me neither.
Here!
[Auntie screeching]
[house rumbles]
Go outside.
- There are still dead outside!
- Go away!
Toms!
- Stop right now!
- Get me out of here!
Toms! Don't leave us alone!
[roaring]
- [house rumbling]
- [intense music]
Get back! Back!
Anna!
Anna! Anna!
Toms!
Anna!
Toms!
Toms!
[music continues]
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
[bones cracking]
What are you doing?
[suspenseful music]
[water dripping]
[house rumbling]
[music continues]
[Toms screams]
[corpse screams]
[corpse growling]
[intense music]
[corpse growling]
[corpse screaming]
[corpse snarling]
[music continues]
[fire whooshing]
[Toms panting]
[low, dark music]
[brooding music]
- [Auntie screeches]
- [dramatic music]
[Toms gasping]
[muffled screeching]
[brooding music]
[distorted voice]
You will take us across!
[ominous music]
Help me!
Marcsa, be careful!
[eerie music]
[tense music]
Marcsa!
[eerie music]
[tense music]
- [tense music]
- [Toms gasps]
[Auntie roaring]
[Toms panting]
[thunder rumbling]
[corpse screeching]
[thunder rumbling]
[women screaming]
[dramatic music]
[screaming continues]
[thunder rumbles]
[music continues]
[Marcsa panting]
[eerie music]
No! Wait.
[Marcsa coughing]
[Marcsa crying]
[Marcsa coughing]
- Toms!
- [somber music]
Don't die!
Get up!
[eerie music]
Toms!
Wake up!
- Toms.
- [whooshing]
[ethereal music]
Toms!
Don't die!
[crying]
[music continues]
[ghosts swooshing]
Toms!
Toms.
Toms.
[ghosts swoosh]
[Toms coughs]
[continues coughing]
[Toms panting]
[whooshing]
[bell tolling]
[somber music]
[music continues]
[music continues]
[eerie music]
[screaming in distance]
[dark music]
[Tomas] Have you ever
been to that village?
[Anna] Not yet.
[people screaming]
[graceful piano music]
[eerie music]
[brooding music]
[bombs exploding]
[men shouting]
[men scream]
[men shouting]
[bombs exploding]
[music continues]
[girl] Toms.
Toms.
[ethereal music]
[brooding music]
[man groaning]
[corpse thuds]
- [corpse thuds]
- [Toms gasps]
[Toms groans]
[Toms wheezing]
[Toms coughing]
[water dripping]
[music continues]
That must've hurt.
Could be from the blast force.
[dark music]
[bright music playing]
[crowd chattering indistinctly]
[hens cluck]
[goat bleating]
- [man grunting]
- [chains clink]
[old man] Chronic pain.
Suffering.
You only know if
you've been to the other side.
Step right up!
Listen to the man
who came back from death!
From the very place
I will show you how we end up.
Have you ever thought about
or have you ever wondered
where did your loved ones go
after finishing
their earthly life?
Are you plagued
by curiosity and fear?
Find out
the future of all mortals!
Pay just a few to hear,
hear the dark story,
what the man
who came back from death
saw in the afterlife!
All of this, I saw it!
I came from death pure.
Together we will go.
We shed light
upon the eternal mystery!
Come find out what happens
when we all lay to ground.
[muffled soft music]
Post mortem photo.
[music continues]
She's beautiful.
She's in no pain.
She's in peace now, tranquility.
[man] Supposedly there are whole
villages that got wiped out
by the Spanish Flu.
In our village, only
I got sick, and the little girl.
There are worse ways to go.
That I didn't die?
You call that lucky?
[old man] I was levitating
in bright light,
my body weightless,
and the air flowed through me,
and even though
I wasn't breathing.
And then, the loveliest
woman I have ever seen
floating,
she lifted me, my soul.
- [loud bang]
- [people gasp]
Lights trembled
and flickered around us,
like the flames of
a thousand candles.
Let's arrange
her hands nicely like this.
[old man] All pain and hunger
were gone!
- Everything was there for me.
- [pearls clinking]
[old man] I myself
was the whole world.
[old man continues indistinctly]
And that is perfect.
[flash bangs]
I was filled
with calm and peace.
And were you there alone?
But how could I have been
alone in such terrible times,
when there are more
dead than there are living?
When the earth is
overrun with ghosts and death?
[Toms] And we're done.
- [neck cracks]
- [eerie music]
[Toms]
I'll be right back.
[old man speaking indistinctly]
What are you doing here?
You take pictures of the dead?
As you can see.
[girl] We have dead too.
We who?
In our village.
Will you come?
If you pay me.
Can you take pictures of
the dead and the ghosts too?
- You can't photograph ghosts.
- [eerie music]
[sheet flaps]
I'd better go. They're waiting.
[eerie music]
[ethereal music]
[old man] Life found me
and grabbed my hand
and yanked me
out of the chasm!
[crowd gasps]
[crowd mumbles]
- [indistinct chattering]
- [birds squawking]
[ethereal music]
Oh, final photo of the diseased.
Hmm. Nice souvenir.
Such lovely pictures.
Joska, wouldn't it be nice if...
We can't bring all
those dead bodies over here.
Can I help you?
[gentle music playing]
How many dead could they have?
[Toms] That is not
why I'm going there.
Sure, you said
because of the girl.
But she's just a child.
[Toms] I never said she wasn't.
If I recall, you're the one
who said she was a beauty.
I'm only telling them
what you told me to tell them.
And then you added more.
This is what
they pay me for, right?
If the story is too plain,
I don't get such a big audience.
- And will you be gone long?
- A few days.
I'll catch up with
the caravan later this week.
All this such a fuss over a kid.
It was her I saw.
You don't understand anything.
[ominous music]
[Imre] The earth is frozen.
If it hadn't, we'd have
buried them a long time ago.
What a disgrace,
those poor dead,
unburied for weeks
and weeks, ugh! Horrible!
Tibor's poor widow,
Jutka, talks nonsense too.
Her husband was
in bad health anyway.
What a burden
to care for the sick.
You, so what did
you say your name was, son?
- Toms.
- Tamas?
Toms.
Toms, that's a good name.
We'd say Tamas here,
but Toms is good too.
Toms.
[ominous music]
[horse huffs]
[horse neighs]
[music continues]
[horse huffs]
[music continues]
[horse neighs]
[Imre] Anna, the basket!
[tongue clicks]
[eerie music]
[Anna] Auntie! Auntie!
[music continues]
[man] No, no, never!
[door clanks]
[music continues]
[water bubbling]
[woman] Come on!
[dog barking, snarling]
- Get out of here!
- [dog whimpers]
The animals are nervous here.
[chuckles slightly] Come on.
[water sloshes]
[eerie music]
[Joska] There will be
a room at Marcsa's.
[knocking on door]
He needs a room. Can he stay?
Just for a few days.
- In there?
- Yes.
I'll warm up the quilt later.
Are you hungry?
Are you hungry, son?
- Yes, I am.
- He is.
I heard him too.
Off you go. I'll feed him.
[Joska chuckles]
- [door thuds]
- Sit down.
Thank you, ma'am.
- You're not Hungarian.
- [Toms] No.
[Marcsa] German?
Yes.
[Marcsa] A photographer,
I heard.
Yes.
You're not a big talker, huh?
[dog barking]
Anna, where are you going?
Can I come with you?
Only if you're not
scared of the dead.
[ominous music]
[Anna] It's really nice here
in summer.
[Toms] I can imagine.
Your mother let you out so late?
I don't have a mom, only Auntie.
And your father?
He went to the war.
- The war is long over.
- I know.
- You haven't heard from him?
- No.
- How old are you?
- 20. 10.
[music continues]
Come on!
Uncle Simon,
Aunt Anna,
Gyongyike, Uncle Arpi,
Uncle Zoltan, Peter Tulipan,
Anna Tulipan, Marika Tulipan,
Ede Schwartz, Zoltan Schwartz,
Mrs. Janos Beck, Mr. Janos Beck.
Little Feri and
I used to smoke here.
- Did I scare you?
- Oh, my.
- Who's Little Feri?
- [anna] A village boy.
He went to the war too.
He and I smoked.
So where did
you get the cigarettes?
He stole them from his grandpa.
Have you ever been on a tram?
Yes. Even the one
that runs underground.
That doesn't exist.
Believe me, there is.
Let's go. Auntie's waiting.
[dogs barking in distance]
[eerie music]
[voices moaning, coughing]
[wind howling]
[lock clicks]
- [door creaks]
- [ominous music]
Marcsa?
[door clicks]
[muffled yelling]
[ominous music]
[music continues]
[distorted voice shrieks]
[door creaks]
[door thuds]
[ominous music]
[eerie music]
- [footsteps thudding]
- [distorted voice moaning]
[Toms gasps]
[panting]
[dark music]
[hinge creaks]
- [suspenseful music]
- [panting]
[brooding music]
Is somebody there?
[music continues]
[door bangs]
[breathing deeply]
[distorted voice shrieks]
[gasps]
[panting]
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
There was a noise in the night.
Are you afraid of the dark?
Only if there's something scary.
[Imre sniffs] I closed up the
house when my poor sister died.
[door creaks]
Well,
this is the house.
- Shall we remove the boards?
- [Toms] No need.
A dark room like this
is perfect for me.
[eerie music]
It'll be fine.
Well...
They had all
this nice furniture.
You can sleep here
too if you want.
Thank you, but Marcsa...
She's the schoolteacher.
Did she tell you?
Except there
are no kids anymore.
But there will be, you'll see.
And Anna?
[Imre] Anna?
Well, she has no parents.
Auntie takes care of her,
but it's Anna who really cares
for Auntie since her stroke.
Anna's a good child.
It'll be nice and warm soon.
Take these. I'll be going.
- I'll let you work.
- Thank you.
[gentle music playing]
[closet door creaking]
[door bangs]
Imre allowed it.
Yes, I know that.
[music continues]
Thanks.
It is barely frozen.
Was she his sister?
[man] No, we already
brought her in last night.
I didn't even notice.
I also wanted
to tell you that...
[music continues]
Would I be able to...
[soft piano music playing]
[fire crackling]
[bone crackling]
[eerie music]
[bone crackling]
[Toms grunts]
[music continues]
[ominous music]
[hinges creaking]
[flash pops]
[bone creaking]
[knocking on door]
[perfume puffing]
Look this way, please.
[flash pops]
[eerie music]
[flash pops]
[woman]
You worked magic on my husband.
I never thought
I would see him like this again.
- Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
I will let you know when
the photos are ready, okay?
I'm gonna frame it.
I'll put it in a lovely frame.
[eerie music]
[music continues]
Please lower your hands.
- Like this?
- [Toms] That's fine.
[flash pops]
[knocking on door]
I already saw at the market.
I know what you do.
She looks really nice.
You can hardly tell she's dead.
Auntie said that a few years ago
when I was born,
I was dead too.
What do you mean, dead?
My umbilical cord strangled me.
And my Auntie rubbed me
until I came back to life.
Do you remember it?
[Anna] Not how the old man
described at the fair,
not like that.
- [ghost snarls]
- [corpse thuds]
[ghost growls]
What was that?
I don't know.
May I have a look?
Little girls like you are
usually afraid of the dead.
I'm only afraid of ghosts.
[ghost snarling]
I have to go.
[low ominous music]
Lacika, won't you take it off?
[Lacika] Mother won't let me.
Does she think
it'll protect you?
- Are you scared of me?
- [Lacika] No way.
Only of ghosts.
- [Anna] I'm no ghost.
- [goat bleats]
Is your goat
a little bit bloated?
No! She's having kids.
She'll just fart and that's it.
You will see.
[both bleating]
[goat bleating]
[door opens, closes]
[eerie music]
One, two, three.
[ominous music]
[music continues]
[suspenseful music]
[camera clicks]
[music continues]
[camera clicking]
[woman screams]
- [dramatic music]
- [woman panting]
[people clamoring]
[clamoring continues]
[man] Klari!
Klari!
Klari!
Klari!
Klari!
[door thudding]
Klari!
[people coughing]
Get water!
- [dramatic music]
- [woman shrieks]
[people clamoring]
[woman sobbing]
[camera clicks]
She won't come out!
[women shrieking]
[women screaming]
[ax thudding]
[women whimpering]
[intense music]
[people screaming]
[camera clicks]
[water dripping]
[women screaming]
They are there, right?
They are on it. They did it.
What do you want here?
[ominous music]
What do you want?
- [objects clattering]
- [ghosts grunting]
[intense music]
- No!
- Anna!
Anna!
It's okay.
It's okay. It's over.
They're gone.
[panting]
Hey, calm down,
sweetie, they're gone now.
Don't worry.
I'll take you away from here.
[Anna] Where would we go?
The ghosts are everywhere!
That's not true. I've never seen
something like that.
[Anna]
You shouldn't have come here!
Now they're angry at us too!
This is all our fault, Toms!
Why would it be our fault?
I don't know, but they've never
hurt anyone before, never!
And now everything's changed.
Go away!
- Anna.
- You have to go away!
- Go away!
- [Toms] Anna!
Go away!
Then I'm taking
you away with me.
I belong here and you don't!
Only you can leave!
[Toms] Anna!
Anna, wait!
[wind whistling]
[Toms] They are everywhere.
You won't say anything?
What should I say?
[chair scrapes]
[clock ticking]
What's going on?
How long have they been here?
Say something already!
You all must be scared.
What do you wanna hear,
for God's sake?
The war took almost all the men.
We had to send
even the very young ones,
and the Spanish Flu put
the remainder in the grave,
and now here we are
with the frozen earth
and our unburied dead.
What do you want?
What more should I fear?
Why should I worry?
There's nothing left here.
I'm leaving tomorrow.
[Marcsa] Good for you.
Just leave this mess behind!
You're just making
things worse instead of helping.
[eerie music]
[brooding music]
[ghost growling]
- [panting]
- [dog barking in distance]
[eerie music]
[music continues]
[horse huffs]
Toms!
Toms!
[panting]
Toms.
[animal calling]
[eerie music]
[Anna] Toms!
[dark music]
[Anna] Toms!
Anna?
[Anna] Toms!
Anna!
- [intense music]
- [Anna whispering]
[screams]
- [gasping]
- [horse nickers]
[soft dramatic music]
[sniffles]
[door opens]
We'll solve it out.
We'll solve it out.
I'm leaving.
Okay. I'll bring you some food.
[Toms] Thanks.
[door creaks]
[Anna] Aunt Ilus, will
you tell us what you saw?
Well, I didn't really see much,
but somebody seemed to
run across the roof, I think.
And the dirt fell from
the thatch wherever they went.
- Did you hear sounds?
- Not then.
I usually hear the sighs,
and I feel the cold too.
Then the ladder fell,
even though it had
been against the wall for ages.
That's all I know.
[ominous music]
[door opens]
Oh, here's Aunt Keresztes.
Right in time.
These two are asking about
what have been happening here.
I heard you were here,
that's why I came.
- Maybe I can help.
- Good morning. For sure.
I don't know much either,
except I was there
at the start of winter.
I was there when all this began.
It began there?
I don't know exactly when.
I wouldn't say so, but that's
when more of them appeared.
Please tell us more.
And once...
Say it.
They were in my house at night.
It grabbed my ankle
with its ice-cold hand.
I felt only the bones, there
was no flesh on it anymore.
And did it hurt you?
It didn't, it just
scared me, love.
It came another time.
I spoke to it,
but it didn't answer,
I only smelled it,
and the wall
turned moldy by morning,
as if...as if it had rotted,
pardon the expression.
And then it never came again.
Do you know
who it might have been?
You mean, it could
have been someone?
I don't know, it might.
[Aunt Keresztes]
Many died around that time.
My husband and two brothers
died in the damned war.
Do you think
it was one of them, dear?
I truly don't know.
Anyhow, they'd never do anything
like what they did to Klari.
Annie dear, take
the young man to see Emi, too.
Thank you.
[crow cawing]
Did you come back because of me?
I did.
Okay, good.
[brooding music]
[wind blowing]
[leaves rustling]
[brooding music]
There's no footprints.
You'd see them in the dust.
[woman whimpering]
[eerie music]
[woman whimpering]
Poor Aunt Klari.
[woman whimpering]
- [house rumbling]
- [intense music]
[wood creaking]
We'd better get out of here.
[knocking on door]
May we come in?
Before the war, I was
a servant nearby, in the city.
At the judge's house.
His wife always
believed in ghosts and spirits.
There were three of
us maids in the house.
Lots of children and relatives,
visitors coming and going,
so they needed the help.
That woman used
to summon up ghosts.
We just laughed.
People like us don't
believe in such things.
Some don't even believe in God!
But one time,
the judge fell sick.
They called the priest to him.
And then that woman summoned
the spirits with her friends,
and asked them
not to take her husband.
And he lived.
Even though
we all saw that his life
had been hanging by a thread.
But the ghosts
remained in the house.
[tense music]
How do you know they stayed?
They broke the porcelain.
Made a lot of trouble.
They pushed one of
the maids down the stairs.
- They were evil.
- And then?
[Emi] They called
the priest to cast them out.
They burned sage in every room.
They sprinkled
holy water on the ashes.
- Did it work?
- It didn't.
Only years later, when
the master died, did they leave.
They don't like people
talking about such things here,
but I've been hearing
them sighing for many months.
[sighs]
I don't know if
any of this helps.
You said you heard them,
and you hear them now.
Do they say anything?
Can you understand them?
They just whisper and moan.
They are not human sounds.
I see.
Did you talk to Jutka already?
It's chicory.
But better than nothing.
Will you tell us?
Nobody believes me,
and now even I don't know if
what really happened that way.
He was in that chair
where you're sitting now.
I was down in the cellar.
There was
a whistling sound and his head,
it sank into his body and...
I just stood here in
the doorway, frozen,
not knowing what to do.
And he died.
And everything was wet.
Water ran down the walls.
- May I look around?
- Sure.
I have to go and
feed the animals anyway.
And thanks again,
for the photograph.
Is anybody here?
If you can hear us, answer!
If you can hear us, answer!
[object clangs]
Who's there?
[suspenseful music]
[Toms] There's nothing here.
[ghost chitters, growls]
[door bangs]
[suspenseful music]
[ghost grunts]
[dramatic music]
Tibor!
Jutka!
[Anna] Tibor!
Tibor!
What are you doing?
[Anna] Tibor!
Jutka!
Jutka!
[Tibor screaming]
Tibor!
[music continues]
Jutka!
Help me, Jutka!
Tibor!
- Tibor!
- [Tibor screaming]
- [Toms screaming]
- [ghost growling]
- [Tibor screaming]
- [Jutka] Tibor!
Tibor!
[Tibor screaming]
[eerie music]
[hens clucking]
Anna, everything okay?
I've lost my mind, right?
I don't think so.
Where do you keep
your husband's body?
Poor thing is there,
in the barn.
[door creaks]
[eerie music]
[door creaks]
- Who are they?
- [Anna] People from here.
The baker, his daughter, his
wife, Aunt Klari, Aunt Joli--
Slow down.
Janos,
Uncle Vince, Mari,
Father Gabor,
little Gergo,
Zolika, and Gabi.
Do you know why they all died?
They died of
the Spanish Flu. And them two.
And the priest?
[eerie music]
So beautiful.
Spongy chest,
gray face, waxy skin.
Suffocation.
How do you know so much?
All I did was work
beside the old man,
arranging dead bodies.
Will you teach me too?
Certainly not!
It's not for little girls.
I won't be
a little girl forever.
But you are certainly now.
- [camera clicks]
- Is he the priest?
Yes, Father Gabor.
Do you have
a new priest already?
No, we don't.
But everyone's at
church anyway every Sunday.
And the others?
Uncle Vince froze to death.
- How?
- [Anna] They don't know.
He was a shepherd
he fell asleep.
[camera clicks]
[Toms] They're frozen now too,
so you can't tell he froze.
[camera clicks]
- And Tibor?
- He's here.
[dark music]
Traces of force trauma.
Clear bruising on the chest,
despite the rigor mortis.
You see, Anna?
It wasn't your fault.
How do you know?
Because of these bruises.
Why, does everyone have them?
No, only them.
- The soldiers?
- No, Anna, look.
Klari has it too, see?
And what causes it?
I had it too.
It's a product
of the blast force.
It feels like you get
hit everywhere all at once.
- Does it hurt?
- It does.
And can you die of it?
So the ones who did it are...
Yes, they do it.
The ghosts.
Jesus Christ!
They can move the air,
do you understand that?
They can use the air
to create a blast force.
We have to find
out what they want.
But they don't speak.
At Jutka's it seemed like
they were trying to talk to us.
I think they were trying
to communicate something,
that's why
they were pushing and shoving.
They could have
killed us, like Tibor.
But they didn't.
Because they wanted
to speak to us,
only we couldn't understand.
That woman also said
that she could hear them.
We'll record
it with a phonograph.
We will have photographs of them
and we will hear their voices.
[liquid dripping]
[Toms] They're on this one too.
[dark music]
It's like the dead are
attracting the ghosts somehow.
My God.
There's so many of them!
- [man screaming]
- [suspenseful music]
[Anna screams]
[door creaks]
[tense music]
[bells chime]
[door thuds]
[Toms] Thank you.
Help scatter it around.
[ominous music]
[bells chime]
[bells chime]
- [Anna] What are you doing?
- I'll record their voices.
Do you see this?
This thin panel
vibrates from the sound,
the tip scratches the cylinder,
and when I switch this,
the scratches are traced
and reveal the vibration,
which is the sound.
We just need to
fasten it with something
so it'll start when it needs to.
How's this?
Well, that's just swell.
[tense music]
Wait right there.
- [Anna] What's this?
- [Toms gasps, sighs]
Are you trying to
give me a heart attack?
What's that?
Pinhole camera.
There's this tiny hole in it
where the light comes in, here,
and it projects an image
onto the inside plate inside.
We will see.
So we have to come
back for it before dawn, okay?
I'm cold.
It's terribly cold, isn't it?
[soft music]
[Anna]
Marcsa sent you some wine.
It was you there, right?
Where?
It was you who came
back from death back then,
it wasn't the old man.
Yeah.
[dark music]
[Anna] You seem dead.
[Toms]
The old man said the same.
It must have been
a mine or a grenade.
[Anna] And?
I don't know.
Well, the old man said he pulled
me out from the crater.
There was water everywhere.
He saw me among the other dead,
and thought
that I might still be live.
That's what Auntie said too.
[Toms] What?
She said I might still be alive.
She said I was suffocating,
I was stuck,
but she pulled me out by force.
Then I didn't cry.
She just rubbed me for
a long time to warm my blood,
and then I cried out.
Sometimes she's sorry
she forced me back into life.
Auntie thinks it was wrong.
I think it was right.
And you don't remember anything?
What it was like being there.
I remember something.
What the old man
said at the fair
about the floating figure?
He heard that from me,
but then he added things
to make it more entertaining.
But I remember.
So then I'm not
the only reason you came back.
You came back for yourself too.
Because of you, and myself too.
[music continues]
[door creaks]
[whispers] Go, go on. Run!
[woman]
What are you doing there?
The heat will escape!
Lacika's mother will
be angry too, you'll see!
[door thuds]
[eerie music]
[rumbling]
[bird caws]
[suspenseful music]
- [wind swooshes]
- [Lacika yelps]
- [wind swooshes]
- [door thuds]
- [thudding on roof]
- [dark music]
- [thudding continues]
- [suspenseful string music]
[rattling, thudding]
[bells chime]
[suspenseful music]
[bells chime]
They're here!
[dark music]
[animal grunts]
[breathing shakily]
[Lacika whimpering]
[panting]
- [dramatic music]
- [Lacika gasps]
[thudding, banging]
[Lacika screaming]
[flash pops]
[thudding]
[door creaks]
[eerie music]
Lacika?
[ghost growling]
- [dramatic music]
- [both screaming]
Lacika!
Lacika!
Lacika!
[Lacika screaming]
- [flash pops]
- [bells chiming]
- [Lacika screaming]
- [thudding]
[bells chiming]
[Anna screams]
[bells chiming]
It's beneath us.
[dark music]
[suspenseful music]
- [Lacika screaming]
- [thudding]
- [suspenseful music]
- [ghost grunting]
- [bell chimes]
- [flash pops]
[Anna shrieks]
Anna!
[bell chimes]
[corpse gasping]
Toms!
[bells chiming]
[dramatic music]
[woman] Lacika!
Lacika! Lacika!
[flash pops]
[fire crackling]
[Toms panting]
[door creaks]
[whispering]
Stay close to me, okay?
[whispering] I'm scared.
[Toms] Nothing.
There's nothing here.
You will wait here.
I will get the camera.
[door creaks]
[suspenseful music]
[dramatic music]
[ominous music]
[low growling]
[bell chimes]
[ghost chitters]
[ghost shrieks]
- [bells chime]
- [corpses thud]
Are you here? Don't leave!
If you can hear us, speak to us!
Please tell us what to do!
What do you want?
Why are you hurting people?
We want to help!
[panting] They're gone.
Wait! Don't step on the prints!
There are no prints.
[eerie music]
[flash pops]
What was that?
Okay, I'll go grab
the things. Don't move.
Shall I help?
Go rest, Anna.
[door opens]
[door shuts]
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
I'd like to bathe.
I just boiled the water.
Thank you.
[door creaks]
[soft music]
[water sloshing]
[static crackling]
[soft scraping]
Set it back.
[static crackling]
[soft scratching]
Play it again.
[static crackling]
[soft scratching]
Hmm.
There's nothing on it.
And this?
Eh, that could be anything.
I'll go develop the pictures.
[static continues]
[door opens, shuts]
[static crackling]
[Toms] They're here!
They're on it!
I didn't hear you!
On one of the photos.
I'm almost done here.
[static crackling]
[voice whispering indistinctly]
[static crackling]
[voice whispering indistinctly]
Toms! I hear the ghost!
It's spinning too fast. Listen.
I can't hear. What is it?
It's unclear.
I don't understand.
Wait, the pic.
Shut it off for a moment!
[Anna] But this is impossible!
- [Toms] And this one?
- [Anna] They took this.
See?
They're only
around one of the two.
What is this on
the boy's forehead?
He got trapped under the ice,
at the lake nearby.
When?
I don't know,
but Auntie always tells me
not to go on the ice
or I'll end up like the twin
who fell through the ice.
And what happened to him?
I guess they pulled him out.
You can only go
on the ice with a ladder.
He doesn't talk much since.
And the pinhole camera?
What's this black streak?
[Toms] I don't know.
And the voices?
[Anna] Listen,
you have to slow it down.
[static crackling]
[voice on recording] Take me.
Take.
Toms, take me to the grave.
Toms, take me to the grave.
Toms!
- Toms!
- [banging on door]
Do you know something?
The photographer took pictures
of all the ghosts in town.
[indistinct chattering]
He recorded their voices too.
Are there many?
Yes, there are many, a lot.
Are they our dead?
[Anna]
There are way more than that.
I knew it wasn't our folk.
Our folk wouldn't hurt us.
What do they want?
We don't know.
But Toms will find out.
- He'll talk to them.
- [Jutka] How?
That's all I know.
[tense music]
[Anna] But that's my house.
[Toms] Good day.
[Anna] Aren't you cold, Auntie?
[tense music]
It's blood.
[music continues]
[people singing faintly]
[knocking on door]
Good morning!
Is there anybody there?
[music continues]
- [water dripping]
- Hello?
Is there anybody home?
[tense music]
[woman shrieks]
Erzsi! Erzsi!
[Anna panting]
My God.
Oh, my God!
- My God!
- I knew you'd
bring trouble on us!
May God forgive us. Let's pray.
The stranger made them angry!
All of you, get
out of here right now!
[Marcsa] What happened?
[women crying]
[man whimpering]
[Anna] Enough! Enough!
[dramatic music]
[people whimpering]
[crowd screaming]
[crowd screaming]
[intense music]
[ghosts snarling]
[people whimpering]
[thudding]
[crowd screaming]
[debris clatter]
[all gasping]
- [suspenseful music]
- [water dripping]
- [women whimpering]
- [dogs barking]
[frost crackling]
[women screaming]
[man] Get behind us, Satan!
Let the souls
depart in peace, my Lord.
- [bell tolling]
- [man] Harmful being, be gone!
The Lord will protect us!
Move on to the afterlife!
Show the path for
righteous lost souls!
- Deliver us from
Satan's evil temptations!
- [women praying]
[man] May the devil take
you back from where you came!
And give us peace, my Lord!
- [house rumbles]
- [man] All souls
praise the Lord!
- [man] All souls
praise the Lord!
- [woman] My God!
- [man] Deliver us from evil!
- Sweet Lord!
[man] May the devil take
you back from where you came!
All souls praise the Lord!
All souls praise the Lord!
The Holy Spirit will protect us!
[crowd screaming]
[ghost chittering]
[ghost snarling]
[screaming continues]
[crowd screaming]
[wheels creaking]
[crowd screaming]
[dramatic music]
[screaming continues]
[door creaks]
[ghosts snarling]
[crowd screaming]
[ghosts snarling]
- [intense music]
- [Auntie gasping, groaning]
Auntie! Auntie!
Auntie! Auntie!
[distorted voice]
Toms! Take me to the grave!
Toms!
Take me to the grave!
Take me to the grave!
[Anna] Auntie!
Auntie! Auntie!
Auntie!
[tense music]
[ghost snarling]
[tense string music]
Into the church!
Everybody inside, come on!
[crowd clamoring]
- [dark music]
- [ghost snarling]
[crowd clamoring]
[woman gasps]
[distorted voice]
Now you are going to join us!
You will give up the ghost!
[women crying]
[people panting]
Anna?
Anna!
Anna, are you here?
[door rattling]
[man] Don't open it!
- [woman] No!
- Let me out!
- Let me out!
- [woman] Don't let him open
the door! No!
[suspenseful music]
[door thuds]
- [man] No!
- [man 2] Let him out!
Let me out! Let me go!
Let me go!
[woman] No, don't let him leave!
No, don't let him out!
[door creaks]
Anna! Anna!
[tense music]
[Toms panting]
[Auntie groaning]
Anna!
Anna!
Toms!
[suspenseful music]
Auntie!
Auntie!
Annie!
Toms!
Toms, Auntie's gonna die.
She's dying!
I gotta get Anna back!
- [Marcsa] Anna!
- Anna!
- Anna!
- [Anna panting]
Look at me, Anna!
Anna, look at me!
They will let you go. I promise!
Auntie's dying.
[tense string music]
Auntie!
Auntie will pull them to her!
She'll take the ghosts
into the afterlife! Of course!
She'll lead them! Understand?
They need the dying!
Like I was, Anna, and the twin!
And the judge too!
They leave with the dying!
We must gather
all the ghosts here!
But how?
We have to bring the dead here!
The dead attract the ghosts!
All the unburied dead!
Bring all the dead!
I'll stay here with Anna.
- [tense music]
- [Auntie grunting]
[suspenseful music]
[Auntie whimpers]
Toms, I can't.
[Toms grunting]
We need everybody to
help bring the dead here!
You heard him, people! Let's go!
Stop! You've opened
the door for the devil!
The evil is with you!
Get out of here!
[man grunts]
Quickly! Auntie's
barely breathing!
[suspenseful music]
[panting] We're gonna die!
Hurry up!
- [wheels creaking]
- [dark music]
Where are you taking him, huh?
It will help us, you'll see.
- I'm not going in there.
- Me neither.
Here!
[Auntie screeching]
[house rumbles]
Go outside.
- There are still dead outside!
- Go away!
Toms!
- Stop right now!
- Get me out of here!
Toms! Don't leave us alone!
[roaring]
- [house rumbling]
- [intense music]
Get back! Back!
Anna!
Anna! Anna!
Toms!
Anna!
Toms!
Toms!
[music continues]
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
Toms!
[bones cracking]
What are you doing?
[suspenseful music]
[water dripping]
[house rumbling]
[music continues]
[Toms screams]
[corpse screams]
[corpse growling]
[intense music]
[corpse growling]
[corpse screaming]
[corpse snarling]
[music continues]
[fire whooshing]
[Toms panting]
[low, dark music]
[brooding music]
- [Auntie screeches]
- [dramatic music]
[Toms gasping]
[muffled screeching]
[brooding music]
[distorted voice]
You will take us across!
[ominous music]
Help me!
Marcsa, be careful!
[eerie music]
[tense music]
Marcsa!
[eerie music]
[tense music]
- [tense music]
- [Toms gasps]
[Auntie roaring]
[Toms panting]
[thunder rumbling]
[corpse screeching]
[thunder rumbling]
[women screaming]
[dramatic music]
[screaming continues]
[thunder rumbles]
[music continues]
[Marcsa panting]
[eerie music]
No! Wait.
[Marcsa coughing]
[Marcsa crying]
[Marcsa coughing]
- Toms!
- [somber music]
Don't die!
Get up!
[eerie music]
Toms!
Wake up!
- Toms.
- [whooshing]
[ethereal music]
Toms!
Don't die!
[crying]
[music continues]
[ghosts swooshing]
Toms!
Toms.
Toms.
[ghosts swoosh]
[Toms coughs]
[continues coughing]
[Toms panting]
[whooshing]
[bell tolling]
[somber music]
[music continues]
[music continues]
[eerie music]
[screaming in distance]
[dark music]
[Tomas] Have you ever
been to that village?
[Anna] Not yet.
[people screaming]
[graceful piano music]
[eerie music]