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,...
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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,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Following his low-budget splatter “KFC”, which, rather surprisingly for a film of its genre, managed to have a great festival run, Le Binh Giang returns with the even more onerous “Rock-a-bye Baby”, a movie that manages to combine Pov horror with slasher and even avant-garde elements.
Rock-a-bye Baby screened at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The film begins with Tran Long, a vlogger/influencer who runs an internet broadcasting channel called “Memory of Murder”, infiltrating actual crime scenes to reveal three murder stories to his subscribers. Initially presented in mobile screen format, including the many comments Long receives, eventually the film moves beyond him, taking the point of view of the perpetrators and their victims, and showing the actual crimes, or at least the version the blogger had in his mind. Moving among the two approaches is what gives the film its avant-garde hypostases, but as time passes, the slasher...
Rock-a-bye Baby screened at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The film begins with Tran Long, a vlogger/influencer who runs an internet broadcasting channel called “Memory of Murder”, infiltrating actual crime scenes to reveal three murder stories to his subscribers. Initially presented in mobile screen format, including the many comments Long receives, eventually the film moves beyond him, taking the point of view of the perpetrators and their victims, and showing the actual crimes, or at least the version the blogger had in his mind. Moving among the two approaches is what gives the film its avant-garde hypostases, but as time passes, the slasher...
- 7/27/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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