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Hot on the heels of his excellent “The Soul Reaper,” director Tran Huu Tan next decides to turn his attention to a famous Vietnamese legend in the story of Tam and Cam for his latest project, which became the third-highest grossing Vietnamese Horror film of all time. Exploring a famous legend in the country that has very little exposure outside its borders, the infusion of “Cinderella” style structure with conventional Asian ghost movie aesthetics is also transplanted into a rural setting for a great spin on the legend.

Living in a remote village, stepsisters Tam (Rima Thanh Vy) and Cam (Lam Thanh My) try to live with a curse placed on the area years ago when The Pale Sire (Hanh Thuy Ngo Pham) tricked the villagers into offering a sacrifice to it. Now living with their cruel Stepmother (Thuy Diem), who always favors Tam over the deformed Cam, and Village...

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Rima Thanh Vy is an actor and model. She was one of the top six contestants in Asia’s Next Top Model 2018 and made appearances in many singers’ music videos. On the film side, she played characters in films such as “Scandal,” “Hot boy nổi loạn” (Lost in Paradise), “Mười: Lời Nguyền Trở Lại” (Muoi: The Curse Returns) and “Thanh Sói” (Furies). One of her upcoming projects is a horror co-production between Vietnam and Thailand.

Lâm Thanh Mỹ is an actor. She rose to fame for “ghost child” roles, in particular “Hollow” (Đoạt hồn) in 2014. Since then, she has made appearances in films such as “Tôi thấy hoa vàng trên cỏ xanh” (Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass), “Vợ ba” (The Third Wife), “Tình đầu thơ ngây” (First Love) and “Nghề Siêu Dễ” (Extremely Easy Job).

The sisters of “The Sisters” (original title “Cám”) never set out to be scream queens!

Shooting is underway on The Bride, a horror thriller directed by Lee Thongkham that has been set up as co-production between Thailand and Vietnam.

The project marks the growing presence of Vietnamese stars in Thailand’s thriving horror film industry and features cast and crew from both countries.

The Bride follows a young Vietnamese woman, played by Rima Thanh Vy, who is engaged to her rich Thai boyfriend, played by “J.J.” Krissanapoom Pibulsonggram. But her visit to his hometown in rural Thailand quickly turns to terror when she encounters the ghostly presence of a bride after trying on a...

Thai director Lee Thongkam is shooting “The Bride,” a horror film that marks a rare co-production between Thai and Vietnamese companies.

“The Bride” follows a young Vietnamese woman (portrayed by Rima Thanh Vy) engaged to her rich Thai boyfriend (played by “J.J.” Krissanapoom Pibulsonggram), who visit her fiance’s wealthy rural hometown in Thailand. The journey turns to terror when she tries on a traditional Thai wedding dress—an heirloom that holds sinister secrets about her fiancé’s family—and encounters the ghostly presence of another bride.

The Vietnamese cast also includes Jun Vu (“A Hundred Billion Key”) and Cong Duong (“Trang Quynh”), while the Thai ensemble features “Jomjam” Karnpicha Pongpanit (“RedLife”), “Praew” Narupornkamol Chaisang (“Master Of The House)”, “Pure” Duangjai Hiransri (“Inhuman Kiss”), and R.Nu Surasak Chaiyaat (“Love Destiny”).

The film of love, betrayal, and the supernatural, is jointly produced by Thongkham Films and Silver Moonlight Entertainment with production by Hang Trinh.

Thongkham Films and Silver Moonlight Entertainment have just announced their latest co-production The Bride, a thrilling horror film that unites creative talents and leading stars from both Thailand and Vietnam. This border-breaking project, marking the growing presence of Vietnamese stars in Thailand’s thriving horror film industry, is directed by Lee Thongkham and produced by Hang Trinh, with worldwide sales handled by Vietnam-based Skyline Media.

Shooting for The Bride began in July this year, with filming primarily taking place in Chiang Mai (Thailand) and selected locations in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). The film is expected to premiere in both countries in early 2025, with V Pictures set to release the film theatrically in Vietnam.

The Bride follows a young Vietnamese woman (Rima Thanh Vy) engaged to her rich Thai boyfriend (“J.J.” Krissanapoom Pibulsonggram), whose visit to his rural wealthy hometown in Thailand quickly turns to terror when she encounters...

BayView Entertainment will be releasing the horror sequel Muoi: The Curse Returns on Digital Platforms in the USA, Canada and Mexico on 30th April 2024.

Muoi: The Curse Returns will arrive on AVOD Digital Platforms in the USA, Canada and Mexico on 25th June 2024.

With Muoi: The Curse Returns, Vietnam’s first female horror director, Hang Trinh makes her debut with this stylish sequel to the Korean feature, Muoi: The Legend Of The Portrait. With an artistic visual approach and a humanist story aesthetic, Vietnam’s first exorcism-themed horror film combines tense elements of a love triangle and blood-soaked affairs. Winner of the Best Sound award at the 2023 Golden Kite Film Festival, the film features popular Vietnamese star, Chi Pu. Chi Pu is the first and the only Vietnamese artist with a self-titled mobile game and has the most followers of any Vietnamese actress on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

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“From the moment I was born I was destined for darkness” states Bi in the opening voiceover to “Furies”. The Furies were the ancient Greek goddesses of vengeance and so makes for an apt title for this feature that is a loose prequel to the 2019 film “Furie”. This time, star Veronica Ngo takes the directors chair and co stars in a bleak tale of revenge that goes in a different direction to it's predecessor. There has been a trend for villain origin stories but it's rare to see one in East Asian cinema, especially given the character it chooses to focus on. Given how Thang Soi made her living in the original, gaining empathy for such a character could prove a challenge.

After being raped by one of her mother's clients, a young Bi witnesses him attack and kill her. After stabbing him to death, she flees to the city...

Furies (Thanh Sói: Cúc Dại Trong Đêm) is a Vietnamese film directed by Veronica Ngo. It stars Dong Anh Quynh, Tóc Tiên and Rima Thanh Vy.

From Vietnam comes this action-packed film, a bit sordid and sprinkled with irony, entertaining and a bit “basic”: four female assassins ready to “deliver”.

Entertaining, action-packed… and full of clichés.

Movie Review

Very funny, worth it if you are looking for a pure and uncomplicated piece of entertainment, with four girls ready to destabilize the drugs and prostitution empire in Saigon.

Very good with regard to the production and editing aspects, with a lot of style… a Guy Ritchie (obvious) or Tarantino type of movie, with a touch of brutal action in the purest oriental style… which makes it the perfect way to spend a good time with its adrenaline rushes, smugglers, thugs and… girls delivering the action.

Furies (2023)

Furies is a film that,...

The third feature directed by Vietnamese superstar Ngo Thanh Van — better known to western audiences as actor Veronica Ngo in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and “The Old Guard” — lives up to its title with a furious display of female revenge set in the seedy streets of late-’90s Ho Chi Minh City. Despite a routine plot and some abrasive tonal shifts, this tale of a motherly mentor turning three damaged young women into deadly assassins is packed with exciting action and boasts fine performances from four killers bound by blood, bullets and all manner of deadly weapons. Following a series of rowdy screenings in SXSW’s Midnighters section, “Furies” will stream worldwide as the first Vietnamese Netflix original feature on March 23.

A gritty and often brutal action thriller, “Furies” is reminiscent in tone and texture of old-school Hong Kong heroic bloodshed epics and has a dash of the “indestructible...

In "Furie," Veronica Ngô stars as an ex-gangster in a desperate situation. "Furies" takes Ngô from in front of the camera and puts her in the director's chair of the action-heavy prequel headed to Netflix. An early 2000s vibe about seedy gangland colorfulness nods to an adrenaline junkie wave that birthed titles such as "Smokin' Aces" or "Shoot 'Em Up," which isn't a complaint. Ngô orchestrates a sleaze-filled yet feminine action brawler that flips the script on once prevalent subgenre gender norms, unfazed — better yet, empowered — by the task. The hyper-intensive style favorably reminds of "Sin City" minus black and white, or even as recently as "Bullet Train," how Saigon becomes drenched in neons like Nicolas Winding Refn's got a hold of lighting rigs.

Ngô also plays Jaqueline, the gracious leader of an underground assassin squad composed of girls who've endured unspeakable abuse under male-dominated societal norms. Bi (played...

"Either you end this with me, or run away for the rest of your life." Netflix has revealed the official trailer for Furies, an action movie from Vietnam. This will be premiering at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival in a few weeks before it's streaming on Netflix worldwide at the end of March. Three furious vigilantes unite to take down a sinister crime syndicate that controls the mean streets of '90s Saigon in this prequel to Furie. If you haven't watch the original, it's awesome (on Prime Video). A mysterious woman trains a trio of girls to take revenge on a criminal gang that abuses females. The three warriors risk everything to challenge this corrupt empire. Furie fight choreographer, Samuel Kefi Abrikh, returns again for this. Furies stars Rima Thanh Vy, Thuan Nguyen, Song Luan, Veronica Ngo, and recording artist Toc Tien. On top of spectacular stunt choreography and cinematography...

Holy hell this year’s SXSW Film Festival really isn’t messing around.

The previous announcement unveiled a stacked horror lineup that includes headiners Evil Dead Rise and opener Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

In addition, they revealed several prominent horror titles that will premiere as part of the Midnighters program, including the Sundance hit Talk to Me and the surprise sequel to Becky, The Wrath of Becky.

It turns out, the programming team isn’t finished!

SXSW announced another wave of film programming today, including an eighth Midnighter.

“Midnighters don’t need to be exclusively horror films, they just need to perk you up and get your blood pumping,” said Peter Hall, Film & TV Festival Programmer. “That’s why this year’s SXSW Midnighters class is a mix of horror, bone-crunching action, and mind-melting genre hybrids. Some of them introduce new, terrifying lore to the canon of suburban horror movies,...

The horror opened in second place with over 100,000 admissions from its opening weekend.

Vietnamese sales agent Skyline Media announced a string of sales for local horror film Muoi: The Curse Returns ahead of its participation in Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market.

The film is about a young art dealer who discovers the cursed portrait of Muoi while visiting a long-lost friend at an old mansion. It is billed as a sequel to 2007’s Muoi: Legend Of The Portrait, which was considered the first Korean-Vietnamese co-production. According to a 1940s local legend, Muoi fell in love with a painter, but...

The horror opened in second place with over 100,000 admissions from its opening weekend.

Vietnamese sales agent Skyline Media announced a string of sales for local horror film Muoi: The Curse Returns ahead of its participation in Busan’s Asian Contents and Film Market.

The film is about a young art dealer who discovers the cursed portrait of Muoi while visiting a long-lost friend at an old mansion. It is billed as a sequel to 2007’s Muoi: Legend Of The Portrait, which was considered the first Korean-Vietnamese co-production. According to a 1940s local legend, Muoi fell in love with a painter,...