The Seventh Day of the Goat

Fresh graduate Zhang Lijuan returns to her rural hometown, only to find her mother Wang Huilan obsessively serving her boiled goat heads for seven consecutive days—each meal colder and more rancid than the last. Her father Zhang Changqing avoids eye contact, whispering to the empty barn at night. The horror escalates when Lijuan's phone floods with anonymous ""RUN"" texts. Mirrors reflect her mother's face stretching into impossible grins, while midnight drips sync with a distorted lullaby from her childhood. Every escape attempt loops her back to the porch, where the goat skulls hanging above the door seem to multiply. When her father finally acknowledges the terror, his brief moment of shared fear twists into manic laughter—""Just testing your city-girl nerves!"" But Lijuan finds proof this is no prank: the family photo album shows generations of daughters disappearing on their seventh day home, all with goat's blood smeared on their portraits. The real horror dawns as she realizes the goat heads weren't meant to feed her... but to prepare her.