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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...

Exclusive: Vietnam’s Skyline Media has closed multiple deals on its slate heading out of Busan’s Asian Contents and Film Market (Acfm), including sales of two titles to the U.S., highlighting the growing international market for Vietnamese movies.

The Trophy Bride, a comedy drama about a poor family attempting to fake their way into high society, has been sold to 3388 Films for the U.S., Canada and all EU European territories, as well as to Infinity Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.

Scheduled for Vietnamese release on October 18, the film is directed by Vu Ngoc Dang and produced by Will Vu and Muse Films, following their successful collaboration on hit comedy drama Sister Sister 2.

Current horror hit The Sisters, produced by ProductionQ, has been sold to Purple Plan for release in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, U.S. and Canada. The film, which was previously sold to MovieCloud...

Exclusive: V Pictures, a subsidiary of the Vietnamese arm of Korean exhibitor Cj Cgv, is making a big push into international sales of Vietnamese movies here at Busan’s Asian Contents and Film Market (Acfm), with a slate including recent hits Face Off 7: One Wish and Ma Da: The Drowning Spirit.

Directed by Ly Hai, Face Off 7: One Wish is the latest instalment in a blockbuster franchise and the second highest-grossing Vietnamese film of all time, taking more than $19M since its release in April 2024. V Pictures has already distributed the film in Taiwan and Singapore.

Horror movie Ma Da, directed by Nguyen Huu Hoang, is the highest-grossing Vietnamese horror film ever at the local box office with a take of $5.1M (VND126BN). It also recently became the second highest-grossing Vietnamese film of all time in Taiwan.

“The Vietnamese film industry has been experiencing significant growth in recent years,...

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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!

Hot on the heels of the initial success of the film “Hellbound Village,” director Tran Huu Tan set out to continue the exploits of the community by offering a new entry set in that universe. Taking the same route to success by adapting the novel by writer Thao Trang, the move proved risky as a one-week delay in release nearly caused controversy with the film's release about to occur. Now, after a record run in theaters that saw it earn over 2 million to become one of the top seven highest-grossing Vietnamese movies of the year, Tan's new film is set to continue the modern Vietnamese resurgence in the genre box office.

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On the eve of their marriage, villager Phong (Hoang Ha) throws their community into a panic claiming to see a mysterious figure in their midst, but when her...

Skyline Media, a leading Vietnamese studio, is getting ready for Cannes with a string of sales on its local and Southeast Asian film sales slate.

Since appearing at FilMart in Hong Kong in March, Skyline has licensed Cambodian horror title “The Night Curse of Reatrei” to Taiwan’s Cai Chang International and to Exponenta Film for the Cis region. The film about a woman doctor who takes up a job in an orphanage, only to find that the place is haunted, is directed by Leak Lyda. Starring Jenna Norodom, Shin Yubin and Paing Takhon, the Khmer-language film is Cambodia’s highest-grossing horror title of all time.

Vietnamese horror film, “The Soul Reaper,” scored $2.34 million at its domestic box office, having been released at the end of 2023. Since its market debut in Busan last year, the film has since added $320,000 of theatrical revenue in Myanmar and Taiwan and been licensed to Netflix for 11 East Asian territories.

Vietnam-based sales agent Skyline Media has unveiled five new titles for sales and distribution at the Acfn market that accompanies the Busan International Film Festival. They range from horror films to gay rom com series.

“The Soul Reaper” is directed by Tran Huu Tan and produced by Hoang Quan. It is adapted from director-producer Thao Trang’s best-selling horror novel of the same title and is a prequel to “Lunar New Year in Hell Village” (Tet O Lang Dia Nguc). The story involves the happy occasion of a wedding turn darker after the arrival of a creepy stranger. The direction probes Vietnamese folklore and ancient customs, while the picture also involves Hoang Ha, Vo Dien Gia Huy (“Goodbye Mother”) and Huynh Thanh Truc (“Vietnamese Horror Story”).

The film is directed by Tran Huu Tan and produced by Hoang Quan. It is adapted from Thao Trang’s novel “The Soul Reaper...

While other parts of Asia have been making horror movies for decades, Vietnam had a late start. Tales of non-war horror didn’t really begin to crop up until after the 20th century. Since then, Vietnam has been trying to catch up. There is indeed a learning curve to consider when watching V-horror; it’s a fairly new genre for many filmmakers. But as someone watches Screambox‘s latest acquisition, the aptly titled and now streaming Vietnamese Horror Story, it’s evident that Vietnam has a lot to offer in terms of unique cultural frights and thrills. Vietnamese Horror Story (Chuyện Ma Gần Nhà) uses not only a familiar format, but also a digestible one; Trần Hữu Tấn‘s movie is an anthology. The first of its kind in Vietnam.

In Vietnamese Horror Story, a group of friends shares ghost stories when the power goes out during a rainy night.

We’re keeping the Halloween season going with yet another awesome addition to our Screambox streaming platform, Vietnamese Horror Story, a kickass new horror anthology that broke box office records in Vietnam.

It is streaming right now on Screambox alongside new additions Terrifier 2, Deep Fear, and All Jacked Up and Full of Worms.

Terrifying tales of horror and the undead come to life in three unsettling stories inspired by Vietnamese urban legends and folklore.

“The feature, directed by Tran Huu Tan, comprises three chapters and follows an actress seeking everlasting beauty; a magician who makes a deal with evil; and a psychic seeking the remains of a deceased girl.”

The film’s VFX were handled by Bad Clay Studio, a Ho Chi Minh-based company headed by French-Vietnamese Thierry Nguyen, whose credits include X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Mad Max: Fury Road and Pokémon Detective Pikachu, ScreenDaily previously noted.

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Halloween may be in the rearview, but the holiday spirit remains alive and well, judging by the continued onslaught of horror releases. It’s another horror feast this month!

November brings a plethora of new releases, gory cult gems, family-friendly offerings, and brand-new titles on streaming.

Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in November 2022 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.

Deep Fear – Screambox (November 1)

The claustrophobic element of subterranean horror always compounds the frantic terror, so expect things to get intense. A post-graduation celebration turns into a fight for survival in the catacombs of Paris in Deep Fear. Three students celebrate their graduation by visiting the Paris catacombs. When they discover a bunker formerly occupied by the Nazis, little do they know it’s not the only thing left behind. Something, someone, is now hunting them. Grégory Beghin...

Bloody Disgusting is extremely excited to announce today that we’ve acquired Vietnamese Horror Story, an awesome new horror anthology that broke box office records in Vietnam, and will release it exclusively on our Screambox streaming platform this coming November 15th.

Terrifying tales of horror and the undead come to life in three unsettling stories inspired by Vietnamese urban legends and folklore.

“The feature, directed by Tran Huu Tan, comprises three chapters and follows an actress seeking everlasting beauty; a magician who makes a deal with evil; and a psychic seeking the remains of a deceased girl.”

The film’s VFX was handled by Bad Clay Studio, a Ho Chi Minh-based company headed by French-Vietnamese Thierry Nguyen, whose credits include X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Mad Max: Fury Road and Pokémon Detective Pikachu, ScreenDaily previously noted.

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Local horror has proved a hit following an easing of pandemic restrictions.

Tran Huu Tan’s Vietnamese Horror Story has set new records at the Vietnam box office as cinemas reopened in Hanoi, following an easing of pandemic restrictions.

The anthology feature, inspired by urban legends, opened on February 11 and took $2.3m (VND53bn) from its four-day opening weekend, according to figures released this week by distributor Cgv.

This saw the feature achieve the second-highest opening day for a Vietnamese title in its local market to date, taking $660,000 (VND15bn), and recorded the highest ever presales for a local film in Vietnam with 85,000 tickets.

Both titles are produced by Matta Cinema.

Hong Kong-based sales agency Good Move Media has picked up international rights to two Indonesian horror films – Death Knot and The Portrait Of A Nightmare – as it builds up its slate of Southeast Asian titles.

Both titles are produced by Indonesia’s Matta Cinema, founded by director Ismail Basbeth and actor-producer Cornelio Sunny to produce “alternative films for a global audience by working with artistic and creative directors”.

The Portrait Of A Nightmare, directed by Basbeth, follows a woman who has found refuge with a street painter, with whom she has a link through dreams.