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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | During the Seventh month on the Chinese calendar, the gate of hell open and the dead rise to walk the earth. There are rules people must follow for 30 days in order to survive. Never swim, never turn back at night when you hear someone call and never talk to strangers on a deserted road. Break any of the rules and you face the haunting consequences. Rosa (Alessandra Di Rossi) a young woman from the Phillipines arrives in Singapore to work as a domestic maid. Naive and innocent she has never believed in the supernatural and ultimately breaks the rules of the seventh month one by one. Now she will pay a terrible price for her ignorance, | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Alessandra de Rossi, Huifang Hong, Benny Soh, Zhenwei Guan, Mohd Haizad Bin Imram | | Director: | Kelvin Tong | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English, Tagalog | | Subtitle: | English | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Tartan Video | | Run Time: | 93 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | September 12, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 21 reviews |
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13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Solid Asian horror flick Feb 03, 2007
By hollygolightly
Like a lot of the other reviewers, I'm a big fan of Asian horror of all kinds--I had overlooked this modest little film until now, but it was reasonably entertaining and, despite the occasional silliness, has a cohesive plot and some good effects. (There's a very brief moment when the shadow of a passing coffin falls over a young woman's face, which then contorts into the most terrifying expression I've ever seen. I don't know if it was CGI or not, but it's *really* creepy.)
It's not exactly non-stop terror and the young heroine's cluelessness occasionally gets irritating, but I still found it preferable to some of the earlier j- and k-horror movies that suffer from disjointed plots and ridiculous inconsistencies. Stylistically, it's much closer to the Pang brothers' Eye movies.
19 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Maid to Scare.... vIDEO PROBELM With the dvd... STAY AWAY from this release!!!! Jul 31, 2006
By DA MAN
"DA MAN..."
This is a film that was produced in Singapore, where my inital thought, that this film just wanted to capitalise on the current unstoppable flow of horror films that seem to follow from the asian countries. Add to that a title that seems even more tacky... I wasn't expecting much... But i was indeed in for a shock.....
The Maid; like it's title, is a tale that is centered around a domestic helper, aged 18, who has travelled to the Philippines to Singapore, in hope to earn money so as to provide a better life for her family back home. Situation is such that money is urgently required to save her ill brother back home.
She is employed by an elderly couple, Mr and Mrs Teo who have a mentally-handicapped son Ah Soon. The relationship between all of them is good, and all seems to go well.
In chinese mythology, the 7th month of the Lunar Calendar is widely considered the Hungry Ghost festival - when the gates of hell swing open and for 30 days, the dead walk among the living. There are some rules during these months that are praticsed during these months amoung most... of which include - not to turn your head when some1 taps or calls your name over the shoulder... Lot of other rules are also mentioned, and most of these have been brushed off as Old wives tale...
The maid (Alessandra De Rossi) brushes them off, and unfortuantely, she gets entangled into the ghostly world....
The acting is decent, with my hat going out to Alessandra De Rossi who makes her performance very believable. But what makes this movie a regular scarefest is the fact that the director is trying too hard to scare us that the scares all seem too rehearshed. This film has a very decent premise, and the acting an't too bad... But i would suggest a rental for all those interested, before committing a purchase, as this is a film for only the acquired taste.
Dvd wise, Tartan issues the regular stuff-along with Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 Surround tracks with a few trailers of it's upcoming movie selections - English subtitles will be available....
******** I have just recieved word that the dvd presentation has a very serious problem with it. For some reason Tartan has tried to stretch what appears to be a 1.85:1 ratio into about a 2.35:1. Also the image is non-anamorphic. For this alone.... i suggest you skip the release!!!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Genuinely Creepy Oct 07, 2007
By Bryan A. Pfleeger
Kelvin Tong's The Maid is an interesting little film. It is not really scary but it is genuinely creepy in a way that not many films are today.
Starring Alessandra de Rossi as Rosa Dimaano, a Phillipine maid who goes to work for a family in Singapore in order to earn money for her family, the film gets heavily involved in Chinese superstition and tradition. Rosa arrives in Singapore during the Chinese Seventh Month. This is the time when according to tradition the gates of Hell open and the spirits or hungary ghosts walk among the humans. Rosa unknowingly breaks tradition and begins to be haunted by these ghosts. She is especially followed by the ghost of a former maid seeking revenge on her host family.
The film is unique in that it presents custom and traditions that few Westerners know about in addition to telling its traditional ghost story. This is a worthy entry into the Asian horror genre that should have received a wider American audience upon its release.
The Tartan disc offers an interesting making of feature in addition to some trailers of their most current releases.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Another atmospheric ghost story from the far east. May 11, 2007
By Robert P. Beveridge
"xterminal"
The Maid (Kelvin Tong, 2005)
Now, I'll say right off that, yes, the critics of this movie have it right: there's nothing here we haven't seen before. But you know what? There are thirty-six plots. Total. (And that's the liberal estimate. I've seen the estimate for the total number of plots in the world whittled down to nine convincingly.) As Al Jourgensen said back in the early nineties, "it's all been done already." What you have to try and do, if you're a writer, or a musician, or a filmmaker, is to present it another way, with your own style. I've seen a lot of derivative Asian horror movies recently, and of the lot, The Maid stands out. Why? Because Kelvin Tong has a lot more style than those other guys.
Alessandra de Rossi plays Rosa Dimaano, a young Filipino woman hired as a housekeeper by a cosmopolitan, if old-school, couple in Singapore, the Teos (Huifang Hong and Shucheng Chen). The Teos have a mentally challenged son, Ah-Soon (Benny Soh), and Rosa and Ah-Soon quickly become friends. However, the house is haunted, and the Seventh Month celebration (roughly analogous to a month-long version of Dia de los Muertos) is coming. Singaporean society has a long, complex set of rules on how to get through Seventh Month without the dead coming to plague you, but Rosa doesn't know them, and gleefully stumbles through her existence breaking them right and left until the dead start noticing her.
This is good stuff. Tong spends most of his time building tension rather than going for the jumps and relies heavily on atmosphere to do his dirty work for him. It doesn't work as well as it would if the movie weren't quite as predictable as it is, but this is mitigated by a cast of intriguing characters. Benny Soh, especially, plays Ah-Soon with the perfect mix of childlike innocence and the menace of an adult who can't tell right from wrong. And de Rossi, the most experienced actor in the cast by far, brings a wonderful naivete to her part.
I liked it. See it on the big screen if you can. Surround sound and a dark theater will definitely get you into the spirit of things. *** ½
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Docu-drama style Horror with good spoofs. Dec 16, 2006
By Wing Lee
"filmfan"
The Maid is a actually very good, compare to other "international releases" in recent years, the only weakness of this realistic horror film is that it's story is inconsistent and a lack of high quality visuals. I totally understand a lot of the elements in this film and it sometimes comes across like a documentary, maybe that's why it's unique and scary. The second half of the film had more of a focus story, and it's no longer about the ghosts activities, it's about the unknown ghosts in the household that haunts the maid, and she solved the mystery behind the death of former maid. I was also very surprised or fooled by the identity of the mentally disabled son until the end. For the foreign viewers, you will find some of the superstitions to be interesting or funny. I had seen the practice of burning hell money and incense, but never gone to see a play where a row of seats are exclusively reserved for the ghosts. Isn't that creepy to be part of that audiences? Another movie that's similar to this film is The Eye 1, 2, and it's much better production.
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