After a tiring outdoor event (Families For Life Celebration 2014) at the Singapore Sports Hub, Bro his friends (ZW and RH) and I decided to end the day with a horror flick - Afterimages.
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| 4 tickets to the movie and complimentary 1 graphic novel |
Afterimages is a Singaporean horror film anthology of five short horror stories with an international cast starring Robert Warnock (Richard Wylie), Melissa Faith Yeo (Amy Tan), Adeline Pang (Yasmin), Vincent Tee (Hok Leng) and more.
It all started when this group of students burn paper offerings for the wondering spirits during the ghost month, one of the items in the paper offerings includes a camera and the next day, they receive photographs. So they try to burn video cameras and in return they receive films which the students watched.
Ghost Pool Leg (鬼拉脚)
The first story, Ghost Pool Leg revolves around the Chinese superstition in which ghosts are believed to pull swimmers legs to make them drown. A cocky expat ignored the warning of a security guard and begin his late night swimming excursions and have some strange encounters. I love the underwater shooting of this story. It was beautifully filmed.
Xiao Bao Bao (小宝宝)
The second story, Xiao Bao Bao is about a young woman (Melissa Faith Yeo) who used her handphone to take photos of the corpse of another woman who fell to death from the 29th storey of her block. This put her through nightmares and trauma with the ghost haunting her. But actually, the ghost needs a favour from her and she was left in peace after she done the favour for the ghost. There was a few scary scenes here, the ghost appearing in her house and the suspense of her taking the lift to the 29th storey. However, the story ended in a light note with the ghost thanking her for so called doing the last favour for her. We then concluded that she fell because she wanted to get her baby's favourite towel and not because of suicide.
Skin Deep
The third story, Skin Deep talks about a group of unrelated shoppers getting stuck in a mall elevator with this beautiful and mysterious woman called Yasmin (Adeline Pang). She holds a deep and dark secret. At first, everyone was fine and started making friends with one another to pass time. Chaos started when two of the passengers inside the elevator, including this mysterious woman had an asthma attack. Yasmin then reveal the truth of her lasting beauty. She actually had bomoh needles under the skin on her face, and it is the needles that kept her young and beautiful. Her real age is actually that of an old lady (revealed when she dropped her bag and her passport falls out). However, she had a price to pay, that is she has to remove all the needles if she were to die if not she will burnt in hell forever. So, she thinking that she will die in the elevator with her asthma attack, cut open her own face and removed all the golden needles. As she was removing the last needle and feeling glad, the lift door opened, everybody went out and she just lie on the ground and turning old. This story is not scary at all but it kept audience anticipating what is her secret.
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| Picture Source: http://paranormal-around.blogspot.sg/2013/01/needles-inserted-into-body-by-bomoh-to.html |
Ok, I'm really curious about this golden needle story so I went online to search. So the actual term is called Susuk. The link for the newspaper articles provides a lot of other interesting reads on the paranormal stories. Not that I want to have any encounters with the supernatural but this cannot be explained happenings really gets me very curious and want to read up more.
Rekindling
The forth story features a heart-broken hawker acted by Veteran actor Vincent Tee, a missing China bride, a mysterious ring, and a popular dish called "lady's fingers" that make up for this gruesome tale. There's some light-hearted scenes here.
Burnt Offering
The last story, Burnt Offering is the whole wrap-around story that completes the movie as we follow this group of friends who have been receiving free films in return of their paper video camera offerings. Well, receiving something from the other side definitely does not bring them any good fortune, for this last film is something personal. They see how they died in this last film and as they were seeing, the reality happened.
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| Picture Source/Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/aihorror |
Overall, I think this movie has quite an interesting plot. The stories are all very local and something we can relate to. There's not too much of a scary factor, I didn't try to cover my eyes although I did try to cover my ears for the loud sound effect. On the bus home, we met with a strange man who talks loudly to everybody and keep asking the other passenger to help him check something. That's when I think, what could be more scary than reality? Horror movies, it's all about the make-up and the loud sound effect.
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| Picture Source/Official Website : http://aihorror.com/afterimages/ |
For those who would have missed this movie, you may wish to download their graphic novel on the App Store for FREE. Go download and read all the stories. After that come back to read my blog ya? Hehe, thanks for reading!
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