在芝加哥担任记者的年轻女子杰米·华特斯(伊丽莎白·瑞丝 Elizabeth Rice 饰),这一日突接噩耗,她住在新加坡的姐姐安娜(Rayann Condy 饰)不知为何自杀。倍感震惊的杰米急忙飞赴新加坡,姐姐自杀的录像让她悲痛不已,虽然她绝不相信安娜会选择这种痛苦的方式,但是安娜从小患有的亨廷顿氏症似乎佐证着自杀的事实。在此之后,杰米见到了十二岁的女儿凯蒂(Adina Herz 饰),凯蒂是母亲自杀现场的目击人,内心受到莫大的冲击。 在安娜火化后,接连有各种灵异事件发生在凯蒂周围,她坚信母亲回来了,于是尝试用摩斯密码与之沟通,谁知却联系上了令人恐怖的未知存在……
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the theater with the killer! Which one of them committed the murder, and who will get out alive?
The film begins with the title Chorokbam filling the screen, which is amazing to see. This is the very moment at which the audience decides to trust this film without hesitation. In terms of how to fill and empty the square frame, the film is bold and skillful. Chorok, meaning green in English, is the color of fate in this movie. The problems of all the family members a hopeless father who works as a night guard, a mother who is completely exhausted with house works, a poor son who works for the disabled and their funeral ceremony are all dominated by the color, green. It is not bright or fancy but dark and scary in some sense. With attractive images and scenes, the film develops a series of worldly episodes of a family up to the level of poetic sentiment of blues and depression. (JUNG Hanseok)
An investigative reporter works to solve the mystery of a haunted house constructed from rooms of the deceased.
Based on the 13th Century Borneo sacrificial rituals, “Curse of the Totem” tells the story of Dr. Sani who goes in search of his wife, who disappeared on a genealogy expedition to study the ancient mythical legend of Jerunei ‘Burial Poles of the indigenous Melanau tribe in Borneo. Burial poles mark burial still exist today as gravestones, marking the loss of other human lives that were sacrificed on behalf of prosperous nobility. Human sacrifice was outlawed in Sarawak Province in the 18th Century. Combing through the Borneo jungle for answers, each member of Dr. Sani’s team experiences inexplicable hallucinations, malicious disturbances and eventually are haunted by unexplained spirits of the dead. Things take a turn for the worse when one of them is completely possessed by evil forces.