Incantation (Chinese: 咒; pinyin: Zhòu) is a 2022 Taiwanese found footage supernatural folk horror film directed by Kevin Ko, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Chang Che-wei.

A woman named Li Ronan implores the viewer to memorize an insignia and chant an incantation to send blessings and lift the curse on her six-year-old daughter, Dodo.

The unconscious child, whose body is covered in runes, is left in front of a tunnel that the clan has expressly forbidden the trio from entering.

When social workers arrive to take Dodo away, feeling that Ronan is unsuitable, the mother and daughter escape with the help of Ming, the sympathetic manager of the foster home.

They bring Dodo to a shrine, where a priest and his wife forbid her from eating for the next seven days, but when runes appear all over her body, Ronan feeds her in desperation.

Ming goes to Yunnan to visit an elder monk that specializes in translating Buddhist esoteric scriptures and has the damaged tunnel footage professionally restored.

In the footage, it is shown that Dom and Yuan passed disturbing items laid ritualistically throughout the tunnel, which led to the altar of Mother Buddha.

They burned each other with incense, hit each other with sticks and spirit tablets, and splashed feces and urine on each other in an attempt to expel the demons.

[4] Kevin Ko explained that the Mother Buddha, hand gestures, chant, symbols, and everything associated with the religion in the film are all fictitious.