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On a fishing trip, Hung (Tsai Wu-Hsiung) has caught and eaten a fish that was apparently possessed - and upon coming home he has killed his whole family. The police is baffled enough that they ask spirit medium Cheng (Rexen Cheng), who performs an exorcism on the man and transfers the demon that has possessed Hung back into a fish. That should have been it, but young Chia-Hao (Wu Zhi-Xuan) finds the fish in the trash and sees it give birth to a little fish that Chia-Hao takes with him and gives him a new home in his aquarium. And from there on, things get weird at home, expecially with his concert pianist mother Ya-Hui (Vivian Hsu), who grows crazier by the hour, which all culminates when she plays a concert in Chia-Hao's school - where all the students go crazy, and in all the madness Ya-Hui just disappears. Chia-Hao begs Cheng for help, but before he can do that Cheng has to find out why Hung could be possessed so easily and learns that he had a disfigured son whom he kept away from everyone for years to not lose face before literally burying him alive. And to track down the remains of the buried son is key for solving the mystery. But once he has succeeded, he finds out his real opponent is to be the Arch Demon, which he can only defeat if he lets his personal deity, the Tiger Master, possess him. But the Tiger Master only possesses those pure, and he has his own personal demons to overcome before he can take up the fight against the Arch Demon ...

Now on a purely narrative level, The Tag Along: Devil Fish feels a little concoluted, as for the most part it seems Cheng and Chia-Hao's stories are only loosely linked, which is why at times one loses track of one narrative thread or the other. That said, what really helps the film is its rather low-key approach that focuses less on spectacle or jump scares and more on characters and atmosphere, and thus make both plotlines palpable, and even some (genre-immanent and intentional) leaps of logic work just fine. And some setpieces (like Ya-Hui's madness-inducing concert intercut with Cheng fighting off demons) really pack a punch, which all results in a pretty cool genre trip.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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