谢静从医院醒来后背突现对称血痂，回到家里之后每天夜里发现镜中夜夜映出双生女童撕扯彼此。溺毙时浴缸浮出满是血水的双生胎儿。面临突如其来的诡异事件，谢静的丈夫赶紧找来神婆来到家里检查房间的怪事，施展祭祀的符咒贴满房间里的每一处地方。暴雨夜，谢静腹腔爆裂，爬出的连体女婴各咬住她半边心脏，血水在瓷砖上汇成双生咒纹……
Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present. Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.
