The Maid movie posterI watched Singapore's horror flick, The Maid, upon the recommendation of a friend. It is quite a predictable story, where a young girl leaves home to a strange country for the first time, and steps into a whole new world and foreign culture.
Rosa
Rosa, an 18-year-old Filipina, arrives in Singapore to work as a maid for Mr. and Mrs. Teo on the first day of the lunar seventh month.
By itself, the old rundown shop house where Rosa is going to work as a maid is spooky enough, with peeling plaster, cracked walls, creaking doors and dripping taps, without the lurking spirits. Granted, at first, there was no sense of spirits, but the tag line of this movie is: "What happens when the Hell gates open?" so what else can we expect?
Mr. Teo
Mr. Teo runs a Chinese opera troupe and Mrs. Teo is a seamstress who makes costumes for the opera shows. The hanging costumes and opera equipment lying around the house add to the spookiness of the household.
Mrs. Teo
In the first week of her arrival, Rosa, being young and ignorant of Chinese superstitions, broke a few rules but Mr. and Mrs. Teo treat her well and in her loneliness, she found a companion in the Teo's mentally underdeveloped son. All is well, or so it seems.
As days go by, Rosa begins to have visions of ghosts everywhere in the streets, shadows in the house and somehow, somewhere, someone is trying to convey a message to her. Sometimes, even spirits need the help of humans to carry out certain tasks which have to be done physically.
This movie scared the living daylights out of me; sometimes it was the ghosts, sometimes the sound effects. After thirty minutes into the 1.5 hour show, I was thinking, "Faster end, faster end!" because I watched the entire movie with goosebumps all over me!
Being Chinese, I know the superstitious rules that we have to adhere to, and when Rosa did something wrong, like stepping on the ashes after spiritual offerings, or taking a seat in the first row to watch the performance of Mr. Teo's Chinese opera troupe. And I think, "Oh, oh, this spells trouble for Rosa."
So as not to leak any crucial plot, I shall not write anymore. All I can say is, go watch The Maid if you like horror. Hopefully, you have someone to scream along with.
Note: The dialogue of this movie is in Teochiew, English, Filipino and Tagalog.
As days go by, Rosa begins to have visions of ghosts everywhere in the streets, shadows in the house and somehow, somewhere, someone is trying to convey a message to her. Sometimes, even spirits need the help of humans to carry out certain tasks which have to be done physically.
This movie scared the living daylights out of me; sometimes it was the ghosts, sometimes the sound effects. After thirty minutes into the 1.5 hour show, I was thinking, "Faster end, faster end!" because I watched the entire movie with goosebumps all over me!
Being Chinese, I know the superstitious rules that we have to adhere to, and when Rosa did something wrong, like stepping on the ashes after spiritual offerings, or taking a seat in the first row to watch the performance of Mr. Teo's Chinese opera troupe. And I think, "Oh, oh, this spells trouble for Rosa."
So as not to leak any crucial plot, I shall not write anymore. All I can say is, go watch The Maid if you like horror. Hopefully, you have someone to scream along with.
Note: The dialogue of this movie is in Teochiew, English, Filipino and Tagalog.
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