The Maid
 | Directed by Kelvin Tong Starring: Alessandra de Rossi, Huifang Hong, Benny Soh, Zhenwei Guan, Mohd Haizad Bin Imram Tartan Video, 2005, DVD Customer Rating: 14 reviews Recommend |
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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,
Title: The Maid
Sales Rank: 51294 in DVD
Actor: Alessandra de Rossi, Huifang Hong, Benny Soh, Zhenwei Guan, Mohd Haizad Bin Imram
Director: Kelvin Tong
Studio: Tartan Video, 2006-09-12, Theatrical Release: 2005
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.85:1
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Tagalog (Original Language)
Audience Rating: Unrated
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 93 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches, 0.18 pounds
- Genuinely creepy, interesting story...
- Genuinely creepy. Alessandra de Rossi delivers a convincing performance, but the real star of the movie is Singapore, with it's traditions and superstitions it proves to be a more than apt setting for the ghost story. Very well made. More reviews
- Sure Gave Me A Lot Of Jumps!
- I just watched this last night,and I really liked it. Very creepy,and made me jump,a lot!Sometimes I wasn't sure about who was a ghost or a living person,but that just made it better.Very interesting and original story,about an unusual Chinese cultural belief.One of the best Ghost story movies I've yet seen.Right up there with another of my Asian favorites "A Tale Of Two Sisters".… More reviews
- Twisted Singaporeans
- According to Chinese legend, the gates of hell are opened during the seventh lunar month. During this time the dead spirits walk amongst the living on earth, to 'wreak revenge or repay a kindness', as the narrative intro explains. Given the nature of this picture, you can imagine which one will occur over the next 85 minutes.
This… More reviews
- Genuinely Creepy
- 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… More reviews
- 3.5 stars--A creepy little movie
- In the The Maid, a young woman comes from the Phillipines to Singapore to work as a maid for an older Chinese couple who have an adult, mentally disabled child. The woman comes during the 7th month on the Chinese lunar calendar, a time when they believe the gates of hell open up and the dead walk the earth and seek justice.… More reviews
