EXCLUSIVE: After making a couple of critically-acclaimed romantic dramas, main Vietnamese filmmaker Victor Vu is returning to the horror style with Detective Kien: Headless Corpses, a big-budget thriller horror with a interval setting.
Mockingbird Footage has picked up worldwide gross sales rights and can introduce the movie, produced by Vietnam’s Galaxy Studio and Vu’s November Studio, to consumers right here at Filmart.
Starring Quoc Huy, Dinh Ngoc Diep and Quoc Anh, the suspense horror is in post-production and scheduled for launch in Vietnam on April 30 in time for the nation’s Reunification Day vacation.
The script has been in growth for 2 years, primarily based on the novel The Lake Of Vengeance, set in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands. The story revolves round a city the place the inhabitants have been mysteriously disappearing and rumours abound that there are ghosts beneath the lake consuming human heads and leaving the rotting corpses floating on the water’s floor.
Along with capturing the beautiful surroundings of Vietnam’s Northern Uplands area, the manufacturing concerned meticulously crafting an historic Vietnamese village relationship again 200 years.
“The ambiance is stuffed with suspense and an alluring thrill,” stated the movie’s producers in an announcement. “Every second builds into an environment taut with nervousness, a haunting melody of suspense the place the fun is a harmful, heart-pounding brush with the unknown.”
One among Vietnam’s finest identified filmmakers, Vu has most lately made a sequence of lush romantic dramas akin to The Final Spouse (2023), a interval drama a couple of lady compelled into an organized marriage with a rich man; Dreamy Eyes (2019) and Yellow Flowers On The Inexperienced Grass (2015).
Mockingbird, which entered gross sales final yr after changing into considered one of Vietnam’s greatest indie distributors, is unveiling a large slate of Vietnamese and Indonesian horror motion pictures, additionally together with Do Quoc Trung’s Exorcist: The Blood Demon and Baim Wong’s Sukma. Mockingbird’s Phong Duong, Enterprise Director, Acquisition, Distribution & Funding, is on the bottom right here at Filmart in Hong Kong to introduce the slate to consumers.
