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‘Detention’ Game Adaptation Makes Its US Premiere

The award-winning Taiwanese adaptation of Red Candle Games’ Detention is making its US premiere in theaters today. Set in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror. Martial law is in full force across the country. In a time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception to this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang (Fu Meng-Po) runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about banned books and dream of freedom. One of his club members, Fang (Gingle Wang, in a Golden Horse-nominated performance) is madly in love with him. The usually shy teenage girl from an abusive home manages to open up like a book in his presence. But then, Chang disappears… One night, Fang wakes up at her desk, the school around her changed and distorted. As she wanders through the sinister

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
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Netflix Seeking International Release Of Hit Horror ‘The Maid’

Over the past few years, there have been some great genre films coming out of Thailand. Now, Netflix’s huge hit horror film The Maid is aiming to join the list and is currently eyeing international distribution. Set in a haunted mansion, a new maid with a vendetta uncovers her employers’ secrets and encounters supernatural inhabitants. This frightening flick stars Ploy Sornarin, Theerapat Sajakul, Savika Chaiyadej, and Kannaporn Puangthong. Lee Thongkham directed from the script he co-wrote with Piyaluk Tuntisrisakul. Check out the trailer!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 26, 2020
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Movie Review: Who Killed Cock Robin (2017)

In a case of major karma, journalist Wang Yi-chi (Kaiser Chuang Kai-hsun) witnesses a hit and run and nearly a decade later comes to own the car involved in the crime. As anyone with no common sense and a death wish would do, he decides to solve the cold case on his own and dives head first into a world of sinister secrets with only his charm to get him through…he’s probably as good as dead… Coming from director Cheng Wei-Hao who previously brought us the ghost heavy supernatural shocker Tag-Along franchise, Who Killed cock robin gets a lot of mileage out of it’s gritty neo-noir tone and the considerable charisma of it’s star Kai-hsun. Speaking of which, the character of Wang Yi-chi is a master at convincing people to fork over their secrets based solely on his personality alone…it definitely works for the character, and makes him incredibly personable…but it also presents a bit of a hindrance to the

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DanXIII
Jan 26, 2019

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‘Detention’ Game Adaptation Makes Its US Premiere

The award-winning Taiwanese adaptation of Red Candle Games’ Detention is making its US premiere in theaters today. Set in 1962 Taiwan, during the time of the White Terror. Martial law is in full force across the country. In a time of extreme repression, all ideas considered to be dissident are banned, and the culprits are tortured or executed. Tsuihua Secondary School is not an exception to this oppression. Despite close surveillance by the military police, Professor Chang (Fu Meng-Po) runs an underground literary club where he and his students learn about banned books and dream of freedom. One of his club members, Fang (Gingle Wang, in a Golden Horse-nominated performance) is madly in love with him. The usually shy teenage girl from an abusive home manages to open up like a book in his presence. But then, Chang disappears… One night, Fang wakes up at her desk, the school around her changed and distorted. As she wanders through the sinister

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 22, 2021
Horror Fuel

Netflix Seeking International Release Of Hit Horror ‘The Maid’

Over the past few years, there have been some great genre films coming out of Thailand. Now, Netflix’s huge hit horror film The Maid is aiming to join the list and is currently eyeing international distribution. Set in a haunted mansion, a new maid with a vendetta uncovers her employers’ secrets and encounters supernatural inhabitants. This frightening flick stars Ploy Sornarin, Theerapat Sajakul, Savika Chaiyadej, and Kannaporn Puangthong. Lee Thongkham directed from the script he co-wrote with Piyaluk Tuntisrisakul. Check out the trailer!

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 26, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Who Killed Cock Robin (2017)

In a case of major karma, journalist Wang Yi-chi (Kaiser Chuang Kai-hsun) witnesses a hit and run and nearly a decade later comes to own the car involved in the crime. As anyone with no common sense and a death wish would do, he decides to solve the cold case on his own and dives head first into a world of sinister secrets with only his charm to get him through…he’s probably as good as dead… Coming from director Cheng Wei-Hao who previously brought us the ghost heavy supernatural shocker Tag-Along franchise, Who Killed cock robin gets a lot of mileage out of it’s gritty neo-noir tone and the considerable charisma of it’s star Kai-hsun. Speaking of which, the character of Wang Yi-chi is a master at convincing people to fork over their secrets based solely on his personality alone…it definitely works for the character, and makes him incredibly personable…but it also presents a bit of a hindrance to the

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 26, 2019