Genre: Horror/ThrillerDirector: Kelvin Tong
Starring: Alessandra De Rossi, Chen Shucheng, Hong Huifang, Benny Soh, Guan Zhen Wei
RunTime: -
Released By: Golden Village & Mediacorp Raintree Pictures
Rating: TBA
Release Date: 18 August 2005
Synopsis :
During the Chinese Seventh Month, the gates of hell open and spirits are let loose upon an unsuspecting world. For 30 days, the dead walk among the living. To protect themselves, mortals devise rules. Rules such as: Do not swim during the Seventh Month; do not turn back at night when someone calls out your name; do not talk to strangers on a deserted stretch of road.For Rosa Dimaano, all those are just a bunch of old wives’ tales.
Hailing from a small village in the Philippines, the 18-year-old arrives in Singapore on the first day of the Seventh Month to work as a domestic maid. She urgently needs money to save her ill brother back home in the Philippines and ghosts are the last things on her mind. Happily for Rosa, life in Singapore cannot be rosier. Her employers – the elderly and gentle Mr and Mrs Teo – are a godsend, caring for her as if she is their own daughter. Their mentally-handicapped son Ah Soon also takes to Rosa immediately.
Between cleaning house and helping the Teos out at their Chinese opera workplace, Rosa experiences the exotic sights and sounds of Singapore to her delight. Then, things start going amiss. Glimpsing strange apparitions at night, Rosa soon finds herself tumbling into the world of the dead. Unknown to the innocent girl, she had unwittingly broken many rules on the first few days of the Seventh Month.
As the festivities reach a fever pitch in Singapore, Rosa’s life turns into a nightmare. A mutilated boy haunts her. A faceless woman appears in the Teos’ house. Rosa feels as if she is losing her mind. Her employers urge her to bear with the sightings. But Rosa is uncertain. Someone somewhere seems to be trying to reach out to her. To keep her job, the poor girl has to stifle her screams and fear. To save her brother, she must survive the terrors of the Chinese Seventh Month.
Source: http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/maid/themaid.htm
4 comments:
Have you seen this? Do you know if it is available in Quiapo yet?
It is yet to be shown in Singapore. I don't know when it will be shown here.
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Actually, that is what I'm thinking, as well. The first time that I heard from April the title of the film, I became apprehensive about it. As I've said, baka panira naman sa 'ting mga Pinoy. But then, at least it's a horror flick and we are not the antagonist in the story, unlike in the movie "Aswang". I also have doubts re Alesandra and of course, I cannot help but remember Flor Contemplacion.
Anyway, I'm hoping for the best. I'm also looking forward to "The Great Raid". I just wish that it was shot here since the setting was originally here. Oh well...
If conditions become better, and if the right perks are given, i am pretty sure we can lure filming back to these islands.
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