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6/10
WHOSE YOUR DADDY?
nogodnomasters31 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Nothing like a good slow burn ghost story with English subtitles. Yan has a child in-vitro. Yann and her seven year old daughter ying-ying move into a new apartment with the help f her brother. Once she is settled in, strange things start to happen as Yan sees ghostly images in the mirror out of the corner of her eye. Her daughter claims she can see her father and talks to him. Yan is disturbed by this and goes on a quest to find the biological father.

The film is shot in Malaysia. All the signs are in English. You can pause on the father's information sheet and read it in English. From the situation you can pretty much know what they are saying without a translation. Words like "bye" and "papa" have worked their way into their Cantonese language. The film moves on the slow side.
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2/10
I guess a seed of darkness blooms into sheer boredom...
paul_haakonsen21 January 2023
Stumbling upon the 2006 Malaysian horror movie "Seed of Darkness", of course I opted to sit down and watch it, given my fascination with the Asian cinema and horror movies in general. Now, I had never actually heard about "Seed of Darkness" before watching it, so I didn't know what I was in for.

Writer Oliver Jeyrald Lee and director Michael Chuah collectively managed to deliver one of the most boring and painful to sit through movies I have seen in a long, long time. The storyline in "Seed of Darkness" was unfathomably slow paced and uneventful, and some amazingly wooden acting performances didn't exactly enhance the movie experience.

I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list in this movie, but I can't claim to be impressed with what I saw on the screen.

I am sure that the concept idea for "Seed of Darkness" was interesting on paper, but the transition to screen really made for a monotonous, slow paced, and boring movie. For a horror movie, this was a swing and a miss, and a massive one at that.

The most scary part about "Seed of Darkness" was perhaps the wooden acting performances.

If you enjoy Asian horror cinema, as I do, then do yourself a favor and skip on this one, because it just simply isn't worth the effort.

My rating of "Seed of Darkness" lands on a two out of ten stars.
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