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Ahead of its release to select theaters, Virtual Cinema, VOD & Digital on October 29 from Film Movement, we have an exclusive look at Roh:

"Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a strange young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters and after spending the night she delivers an ominous prophecy: the family will all soon die. As strangers begin to show up on her doorstep, and terrible events crop up around them, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest. This eerily atmospheric folk horror tale marks the stunning directorial debut of seasoned visual effects artist, Emir Ezwan. From the ominous lighting, off-kilter tone, isolated locations and strange goings on, Roh is a visceral, spine-tingling revelation."

Written and Directed by: Emir Ezwan Cast: Farah Ahmad, Mhia Farhana, Harith Haziq, Nam Ron, Junainah M. Lojong,...

Though horror movies have increasingly gravitated toward jump scares and computer-generated FX, often the genre’s most unsettling exercises eschew such tricks for quiet, unadorned menace. That’s certainly the case with “Roh,” which was Malaysia’s submission for the best international feature Oscar last year. Belatedly getting released to U.S. virtual cinemas, VOD and digital formats on Oct. 29, .

After a wordless opening sequence in which we see her incongruously presiding over some fiery nocturnal burial rite, a filth-covered, knife-clutching little girl (Putri Nurqaseh) wanders from the jungle to a small hut. There, husband-abandoned Mak (Farah Ahmad) lives with teenage daughter Along (Mhia Farhana) and younger son Angah (Harith Haziq). They take in the stray, assuming she got lost on an outing and needs returning to a village across the river. But once this wraithlike wee visitor finally speaks, she says, “When the moon is full, all of you will die,...

Fourth quarter release scheduled.

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Malaysian Oscar submission and horror film Roh (Soul).

The distributor plans a theatrical and virtual cinema release in the fourth quarter of this year followed by home entertainment and digital roll-out.

Roh centres on a single mother cut off from civilisation whose children bring home a strange young girl caked in clay.

The newcomer tells of spirits and spirit-hunters and after spending the night she delivers an ominous prophecy: the family will all die soon.

Roh marks the feature directorial debut of visual effects artist Emir Ezwan, and stars Farah Ahmad,...

Malaysia has selected art-house horror film “Soul” (aka “Roh”) as its contender in the Academy Awards best international feature film section.

Set in an indeterminate period in the past, the film tells the story of the arrival a small girl who brings ominous predictions and strange incidents to a poor family living in a forest.

The selection was made by a special committee arranged by the National Film Development Corporation (Finas) and was announced on Wednesday. “The selection went through a detailed evaluation process based on filming criteria like direction, storyline, cinematography, screenplay, acting, music score, artistic elements and editing apart from adhering to the rules set by the organizers of the Oscars,” it said.

A first feature by Emir Ezwan, the film had its world premiere at the Singapore International Film Festival and then the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, both this time last year. In summer 2020, it also played...

Action and horror flicks are, probably, the two most popular genres in Malaysian cinema, with films like “Munafik” and its sequel being the first that come to mind. It is, thus, always joyful to discover directors that try to do something different within the latter genre, with Emir Ezwan’s feature debut definitely falling under this category.

“Soul” screened at Udine Far East Film Festival

The story takes place inside and around a traditional Malay house in the middle of the forest, where a family of three makes a living in the woods in an unspecified time period. The two kids, Along and Angah, spend most of their time placing traps in the forest and bringing home the animals caught, for their mother, Mak, to cook, but it is during this task that they first encounter a grotesque sign that something is going wrong. A bit later, a young girl...

After the international acclaim of Two Sisters, Malaysian-based Kuman Pictures set out to make a second effort with their low-budget, cost-effective style which looks to become their trademark production style. Tapping up-and-coming director Emir Ezwan for his first full-length effort, the film is set to appear in Malaysian theaters March 19, 2020.

Living in a remote jungle village, Angah (Harith Haziq) and his family, mother Mak (Farah Ahmad) and sister Along (Mhia Farhana) find a feral girl (Putri Syahadah Nurqaseh) alone in the woods and decide to bring her into their home. Trying to get through to her, instead, the young girl wakes them one morning and offers a dire warning of the future before killing herself, which the family writes off as the trauma from living alone in the jungle for so long. When they begin to suffer a series of strange and bizarre supernatural misfortunes they seek the help of...