Movie Review: “Roh”
Folk horror films have been on the rise lately, and when they come from countries not known for their fear-fare cinema output, it often adds an extra dimension of the creepy unknown to viewers outside of the country of origin. Malaysia’s Roh (AKA Soul; 2019) certainly falls into that description, with its untamed forest providing a disquieting setting that looks quite different from forest settings in horror movies shot in Western countries and therefore giving off an even more unsettling effect than what many viewers are used to. Single mother Mak (Farah Ahmad) lives in an isolated area of the forest with her teenage daughter Along (Mhia Farhana) and younger son Angah (Harith Haziq). Their lives are difficult, living meagerly off of what they can find nearby. A deer hanging curiously from a tree could either provide food for a week or open the door to danger, as the siblings discuss. When a little girl (Putri Qaseh) shows up at
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