3 Horror Movies That Will Give You The Extra Spook This Ghost Festival ?

By elaine.kiew on 30 Jul 2019

The Ghost Festival (or Hungry Ghost Festival) falls on the seventh month of the year and would last for 30 days. This year, it's happening on Aug 1 so this means it will not be long till hell is unleashed! ?

If you are not the superstitious kind and is always up for a good spook, we dare you to check out these four horror movies during the 'scariest' month of the year! ?

P/s: They movies are listed in chronological order.

#1 Binding Souls (Aug 8)

Synopsis

Ho Tsz Fung (Tsao Yu-Ning) and his old friends revisited their school to reminisce about their old-school life before it shuts down for good.

As the school was used as a military laboratory during the Japanese occupation in World War II, the students there have heard their fair share of scary stories. While walking around the school, they find a former student's diary among the archive journals, dictating all the supernatural events that happened in the past, including the mysterious disappearance of a girl.

Watch the trailer here:

#2 Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (Aug 15)

Fans of the brilliant producer Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, The Shape of Water) and director André Øvredal (Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) must not miss this live-action adaptation of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!

Synopsis

The film follows a group of friends living in a small town who discover a book of stories written by a legendary town recluse. The friends quickly discover the stories are being written in real-time by the recluse's ghost and feature different monsters meant to specifically haunt the person reading the story. Each monster is pulled from one of Schwartz's many scary stories, allowing for a whole coterie of spooky monsters to come to life.

Watch the trailer here:

#3 Revenge Of The Pontianak (29 August)

The pontianak is a female vampiric ghost in Malay mythology that most of us Singaporeans must have heard of while growing up!

This August, get ready to be spooked by the creature from our childhood nightmare!

Synopsis

1965, Malaysia. A small village helps Khalid and Siti prepare for their wedding day. Soon after, great darkness falls upon the village as a string of horrific deaths and supernatural happenings create widespread fear and paranoia amongst the villagers. The events force a confession from Khalid to a murder of a girl he made pregnant years before, now believed to have returned as a Pontianak. To kill this vengeful vampire, he rallies all the men of the village and sets out into the jungle to hunt her down. But can the village stop her?