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The Heirloom
The Heirloom is a 2005 Taiwanese supernatural horror film. It concerns a house in which an entire family committed mass suicide at the same time and same hour. A young man with his fiancee returns to claim it as his inheritance, after this, mysterious deaths declared as suicides start to happen. It was released in the US on DVD by Palisades Tartan on their Tartan Asia Extreme imprint.
Plot.
The film begins with the description of an obscure occult practice in which people feed aborted fetuses blood to
2010 by a sequel, "Empire".
Chapter summaries.
- Chapter 1: the origin of early Roman settlers, who started as salt traders. This chapter also introduces the winged phallus, or fascinus, that acts as a family heirloom and appears in each subsequent chapter.
- Chapter 2: the legend of Cacus, his alleged death by Hercules, and the creation of the Ara Maxima.
- Chapter 3: the discovery of the twins Romulus and Remus and the creation of the Roman Kingdom.