The Maid (2005 film)
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| Directed by | Kelvin Tong |
| Produced by |
Chan Pui Yin Seah Saw Yam Titus Ho |
| Written by | Kelvin Tong |
| Starring |
Alessandra De Rossi Chen Shu Cheng Hong Hui Fang Benny Soh |
| Music by | Alex Oh Joe Ng |
| Cinematography | Lucas Jodogne |
| Edited by |
Lawrence Ang Low Hwee Ling |
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Mediacorp Raintree Pictures Boku Films
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93 minutes |
| Country | Singapore |
| Language | English Teochew Tagalog |
The Maid is a 2005 Singaporean horror film, directed by Kelvin Tong, telling of a maid recently arrived from the Philippines. She has to acclimate herself to the customs of the Chinese Ghost Month, during which she struggles with supernatural forces. The maid is employed by a Teochew opera family, a family with many secrets, who give her a place to stay in their dilapidated shophouse.
The film broke the box office record in Singapore for the horror genre, making S$700,000 on its opening weekend.
It won the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation (EFFFF) Asian Film Award at the 10th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). The EFFFF Asian Film Award is a prize awarded to the best Asian film of the year by the federation, of which PiFan is a supporting member.
It stars Alessandra de Rossi, Hong Huifang, Benny Soh, Guan Zhenwei and Chen Shucheng, a veteran actor-compere.
During the Chinese Seventh Month, the gates of hell open and spiritual are set loose upon the unsuspecting world. Hailing from a small village in the Philippines, 18-year-old Rosa Dimaano arrives in Singapore on the first day of the Seventh Month to work as a domestic maid. She urgently needs money to save her younger brother who is ill back home. Her employers, the elderly Mr. and Mrs. Teo, appear kindhearted and sympathetic. Their mentally handicapped son Ah Soon also takes to Rosa immediately.
Between cleaning house and helping the Teos out at their Teochew opera workplace, things start going seriously amiss. Rosa glimpses strange apparitions at night and also has vivid nightmares. She finds out that there was a maid two years before her called Esther. She apparently has the same good relationship with Ah Soon as she does. That is when Rosa begins to suspect things are seriously wrong.
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