NIGHTMARE (R1)

SINGLE MANDARIN

JUDUL: NIGHTMARE (R1)
GENRE: HOROR
TAHUN: 2012

PEMAIN:
Huang Xuan, Fiona Sit Hoi-Kei, Zhou Chuchu, Tao Hai, Shang Daiqing, Cai Wen, Zhang Qian, Qiao Lisheng, Xu Haiwei

SINOPSIS:
Horror films and China censorship: two things that do not go great together. So it is with Herman Yau’s Nightmare, a psychological chiller that does all sorts of backflips, contortions and acrobatics to avoid pissing off SARFT. The result is a film that’s never conclusive about its details or resolution and wraps its reveals in so many layers of psychosis that even if someone were to state the film’s meaning, someone else could easily debunk it. Maybe SARFT just passed Nightmare because they were tired of arguing about it. Huang Xuan stars as Dong Zi, an insomniac who sometimes spends his nights watching his comely neighbor suffer her own insomnia. He peeps at her through her curtain-less windows while she paints creepy pictures of a scary long-haired woman with a bloody gash on her forehead. Then someone slashes her with a knife and throws her off her balcony. Dong Zi witnesses the whole thing so he’s not too happy.