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Celebrate Halloween with Golden Village’s Horror Film Festival!

By Edric / 24 Oct 2017 (Tuesday)

Celebrate Halloween this year with Golden Village’s first Horror Film Festival with some of the region’s best horror films. Horror Film Festival kicks off on 27 October with a team of Singapore Paranormal Investigators as they let you in on their spooky encounters while exploring “haunted” buildings in Singapore.

Also starting the Horror Film Festival is The Promise, a Thai horror film. A broken promise between two friends Ib and Boum who decided to commit suicide together after a financial crisis. The Promise is the highest grossing horror movie this year and will hit cinemas in Singapore on 16 November – after Horror Film Festival.

Other films to feature are award-winning films The Autopsy of Jane Doe (English), The Bride (Mandarin), The Evil Within (English) and Dearest Sister (Laos). Dearest Sister is also the first Laotian film to have been selected to compete in the running for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, 90th Academy Awards.

Catch the film festival at Golden Village Plaza and Golden Village Yishun for this Halloween’s most ghoulish movie experience in Singapore. Movie tickets for the opening night are priced at S$10 (Members) and S$13 (Public).

The Promise

Thai (English & Chinese Subtitles) | PG 13 (Horror) | 114 mins

In 1997, the Asian financial crash was a disastrous event that crept over Asia and left millionaires bankrupt overnight.

A bright future which two best friends, Boum and Ib, picture together fell apart when they found out that their families were going bankrupt. All of their assets were seized to satisfy their debts. The construction of a premium luxury condominium, which their parents jointly invested in had been suspended. Unable to accept the harsh truth, they decided to end their lives together at the unfinished tower, where they promised to be together forever. In the end Ib died all along.

Twenty years later, Boum becomes a successful real estate entrepreneur. One day, she gets to visit the abandoned tower with her beloved daughter Bell. That night, however, Boum wakes up and finds Bells sleepwalking and talking to herself in the dark. Bell’s sleepwalking condition continues to worsen every night. What concerns Borm the most is that Bell’s action and words in her sleepwalking state frighteningly remind Boum of Ib.

What measures will Boum take to release herself from the promise that binds her?

Dearest Sister

Laos (English Subtitles) | PG 13 (Horror and Coarse Language) | 101 mins

A Lao village girl travels to Vientiane to care for her rich cousin who has mysteriously lost her sight, and gained the ability to communicate with the dead. Matters are further driven by the cousin’s ambivalent marriage with an Estonian expat, who has his own dark secrets to hide.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

English | Rating to be advised

A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets.

The Bride

Mandarin (English & Chinese Subtitles) | M18 (Horror and Sexual Scene) | 88 mins

TV producer Cheng-ho is having a time of his life. His career in the TV station is going well, and he also starts living together with his fiancée. But ever since he picks up a red envelope in the park, he keeps having a nightmare about an old mansion. After paying a visit to a psychic, he realizes that it is his memory of the previous life.

Since her childhood, senior high school girl Yin-yin often sees things that don’t “exist”. Lately, such vision happens more and more frequently, and leaving her quite adrift. She knows that she has the vision to see ghost while training with the swim team.

The mystery of Cheng-ho’s previous incarnation, the distance between Yin-yin and the underworld, all come together in a mysterious way. Japanese master of horror and Taiwanese rising director team up in making a brand-new horror movie, and challenge the limit of unknown terror.

The Evil Within

English | R21 (Coarse Language, Some Violence and Nudity | 98 mins

A mentally handicapped boy who lives with his older brother is ordered by a sadistic creature in his dreams to go on a murderous rampage.

Photos provided by Golden Village.