After years of hiatus, Vietnamese Le Binh Giang returned with two films this year, “Rock-a-bye Baby”, which seems like a continuation of the excellent “KFC” he directed back in 2016, and “Jackpot Island”, a commercial flick that was promoted as the sequel to “Kumanthong”, a movie Le Binh Giang directed along Ham Tran and Phan Gia Nhat Linh. Unfortunately, this is also the worst work of his we have seen so far, essentially ripping off Hollywood cheap horror movies.

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The movie begins in the past, with the story of Huynh, a shaman who turned out to be member of Kumanthong, a dark fanatical sect, and his relationship with deafmute village girl Soi, which ended up with a ritual named fetus sacrification. Years later, a group of young friends, couple Tam and Linh, Kim, a girl who also seems to have something going on with Tam,...