Tales from the Dark 2

Ching-yi cannot sleep after her boyfriend Ho-hong leaves following a heated quarrel. She tries to cope by buying a pillow stuffed with aromatic herbs. The pillow helps her fall asleep, setting the stage for what comes next.

With the pillow, she drifts into a dream world. She finds herself intimate with Ho-hong, but the man is an incubus wearing his face. This eerie encounter hints that something sinister has replaced ordinary sleep.

The demon drains her life force as the nights pass. The more she uses the pillow, the more fatigued she becomes, with eerie sensations coursing through her body. The dream-visitor's influence continues to erode her health.

Fragments of truth finally surface: during the quarrel she stabbed Ho-hong in the neck and killed him. She cleans the crime, vacuum-seals the body, and hides it in the closet. The act seals her in a growing web of guilt and danger.

A mysterious tip-off leads security officers to force their way into the apartment. They find Ching-yi in critical condition, and the room feels charged with a supernatural threat. The officers' discovery hints that the demon's influence has extended beyond the couple's tragedy.

Meanwhile, a group of youngsters revisits the abandoned primary school where they graduated. The building sits on the edge of demolition, and the caretaker warns them to leave before dark. They ignore the warning, eager for nocturnal thrills.

They play a variation of hide-and-seek that snakes through empty classrooms and shadowed corridors. The air grows heavier as the game carries on into the unseen, restless spaces. Unease settles as the building seems to watch them back.

As night deepens, the campus ghosts begin to reveal themselves. The youngsters sense presences moving among the empty rooms and corridors. The haunting presence marks a shift from curiosity to fear.

The film builds to a haunting revelation: all the youngsters encountered that night were lost to the netherworld and none survived the game. The sudden disappearances underscore a fatal consequence to their reckless curiosity. The boundary between worlds has proven deadly.

Uncle Lam travels the streets at night during the Ghost Festival, performing good deeds and carving marks on his umbrella handle for each act. His quiet, ritualistic path contrasts with the danger lurking in the city. Each notch signals a moral tally in a world where spirits are waking.

Lam meets Jenny, a prostitute who lures him to her apartment after feigning a sprained foot. He declines her advances, and she turns hostile, trying to extort money with the aid of a bodyguard who is the thug he confronted earlier. The tension foreshadows a brutal clash.

Lam sheds his disguise and reveals himself as a demonic creature. In a brutal finale, he kills Jenny and her ally and devours Jenny's innards, leaving the room looming with dread. The revelation confirms a predatory, supernatural force in the city.

The ending leaves a chilling implication that the demon's influence may extend beyond the couple’s tragedy. The film hints that other lives in the city may be entangled in the same netherworld threat. Viewers are left with a lingering sense of dread about what else the demon might claim.