Writer-director Tony Kern is on a filmmaking roll here in Singapore, having already chalked up two feature films in the horror genre - A Month of Hungry Ghosts and Haunted Changi - and getting his next - you guessed it - horror feature primed for production with an August release scheduled. As far as the Chinese Almanac goes for South East Asia that is smack right in the middle of the Hungry Ghosts Festival, and coincidentally also the lucrative National Day Week for locally produced films....
- 11/28/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Even though Asia came quite late to the phenomena that was the sub genre of “found footage” horror, they’ve been making up some lost time, and the latest attempt to surface outside of the region is Andrew Lau’s (no not that one) Singapore frightener Haunted Changi...When it hits U.S DVD on November 22. Synopsis: In January of 2010, a group of local filmmakers began exploring the famously haunted Old Changi Hospital in Singapore with terrifying and tragic results. This movie pieces together the original Haunted Changi film crew's footage, to tell the full story of the horror and mystery, of the world's most haunted location.
- 10/25/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Even though Asia came quite late to the phenomena that was the sub genre of “found footage” horror, they’ve been making up some lost time, and the latest attempt to surface outside of the region is Andrew Lau’s (no not that one) Singapore frightener Haunted Changi...When it hits U.S DVD on November 22. Synopsis: In January of 2010, a group of local filmmakers began exploring the famously haunted Old Changi Hospital in Singapore with terrifying and tragic results. This movie pieces together the original Haunted Changi film crew's footage, to tell the full story of the horror and mystery, of the world's most haunted location.
- 10/25/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Director: Andrew Lau.
Cast: Farid Azlam, Sheena Chung and Audi Khalis.
From the ruins of a Singaporean hospital comes yet another found footage product. Haunted Changi makes use of a real facility that is haunted by the ghosts of war. It was a command center once occupied by the Japanese, and it was used to detain POWs before being turned into a hospital. During the second World War, people were beheaded, experimented on, tortured, and maybe also buried on site.
If that is not enough to give locals the willies, then nothing will.
If this film actually spent time exploring Taoism and mixed it up with the fear of hungry ghosts—where spirits do not get the rites required to pass on to the next life—then this film would have some flavour. As it is, this film does not quite stand out. Maybe if the film made use of...
Cast: Farid Azlam, Sheena Chung and Audi Khalis.
From the ruins of a Singaporean hospital comes yet another found footage product. Haunted Changi makes use of a real facility that is haunted by the ghosts of war. It was a command center once occupied by the Japanese, and it was used to detain POWs before being turned into a hospital. During the second World War, people were beheaded, experimented on, tortured, and maybe also buried on site.
If that is not enough to give locals the willies, then nothing will.
If this film actually spent time exploring Taoism and mixed it up with the fear of hungry ghosts—where spirits do not get the rites required to pass on to the next life—then this film would have some flavour. As it is, this film does not quite stand out. Maybe if the film made use of...
- 9/25/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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