Armenian Haunting Page #5

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to admit it to himself

that something's wrong, or

he's embarrassed to tell me.

Typical Armenian guy.

This f***ing door...

Where are they?

Here you are.

(skewers clattering)

(electricity buzzing)

Oh, come on!

(speaking foreign language)

(garage door creaking)

This goddamn door!

(eerie growling)

(garage door creaking)

(eerie growling)

(dramatic music)

(skewer whooshing)

(Arsen gasping)

(ragged breathing)

(skewer whooshing)

(Arsen choking)

I can't believe this is happening.

I just talked to him yesterday.

Arsen is dead.

Dead!

And they-they arrested

some man in suspicion.

He and my cousin had a fight

about the money he borrowed.

I know it wasn't that man who killed him.

The curse is here.

I'm scared for my life.

I'm scared for my family.

There has to be something

that I can do to stop it.

I-I know I can stop it.

I have to find it.

(water running)

How are you doing, mom?

To lose two children...

I can't imagine what that

family is going through.

(speaking foreign language)

I don't know what I would do if...

Maro!

(speaking foreign language)

Turn that off!

This is not the time for this!

[Maro] Sorry, mom.

How inappropriate!

I'm sorry, it's off!

I turned it off!

[Eva] Did you find that

black dress for tomorrow?

Um, I'll look for it tonight, I promise.

Mama?

What do you know about the

family curse and the promise?

(dramatic music)

I overheard Tatik talking to herself...

You overheard nothing!

Mom, please don't lie

to me, I'm not a child.

I understand everything.

You don't understand,

and you won't understand.

Your grandmother went through

a lot when she was little.

Those knuckle tattoos...

[Maro] I know.

Well...

There's no sense in keeping

it a secret any longer.

She told me everything.

(dramatic music)

She could no longer keep it inside.

And your dad...

She couldn't even tell her own son.

But I guess confiding

in a stranger is easier.

And, woman to woman, she

finally felt she could trust me.

I though that day would never come.

When she was eight years old,

her pregnant mother took her

in the middle of the night

to cross the river to

escape the Turkish guards.

They arrested her father a day before.

They told them it was

a suspicion of treason

to the Turkish government.

There was a boat.

But there was no space left.

And a kind man offered his to them.

In exchange, he made them promise

that they would deliver a

bundle of jewelry and valuables

to his wife and children.

They swore they would.

Later, they found out that

the guards had beaten him,

his arms and legs broken.

And he died a slow death on the street.

They never looked for the wife.

And instead, they kept all that jewelry

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