DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY
Saturday November 23, 2024
9:00 pm
Taiwan, 2024, 93 min
Language
Mandarin with English subtitles
Director
John Hsu
Writers
John Hsu & Kun-Lin Tsai
Producer
Ivy Chen
Cast
Bo-Lin Chen, Sandrine Pinna, Gingle Wang, Yi Ti Yao, Bai Bai, & Soso Tseng
Synopsis
John Hsu’s supernatural horror comedy has a lot of fun with the many tropes of the Asian horror region. Some of it may fly over your head, but you’re having too much fun laughing that it doesn’t matter if you miss a cultural reference or two. What’s important is that when the main references hit, they hit oh so well. Our story centers on an amateur ghost who must get her ghost license and enter her post-life career of professional scaring. She teams up with a spooking legend in order to learn to be good at the craft quickly. For if she doesn’t succeed, she will be deleted forever. Timid by nature, not much changes when she enters the cut-throat world of commercial spooking where you’re only useful as long as your relevant. Something that the living can relate to, unfortunately. In between playing up the tropes and the laugh out loud moments Hsu’s movie about the spirit world still has a beating heart – compassion and caring is not just for the living.
Screens with short film
THE COMPANIONS
Duration: 12 Minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Director: José María Flores
Writers: José María Flores
Producers: Héctor Ramos, Luisa Bellido, Alberto Sarmiento, Isabel Castro
Cast: Alberto Amarilla, Elisabeth Larena
Synopsis
A young couple are walking to dinner when they notice a crowd gathering ahead.