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The Maid (2005)
Directed by Kelvin Tong
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Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve and her hell is about to begin.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Alessandra de Rossi | Hong Huifang | Benny Soh | Zhenwei Guan | Shucheng Chen | Mohd Haizad Bin Imram | Nur Awal'liyah Ja'afar
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/01/2025 | TV | DVD | Owned | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Singapore!
Chinese folk horror set in Singapore with a Filipino maid. One of those “not everything is as it seems” movies. It’s fine. 5.5 stars but gets a bump for for doing Southeast Asian folk horror before it got really popular a decade+ later.
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