News

South-Asian horror is definitely emerging as the new horror genre, embodying religious horror, gore, and symbolism in its narratives. Spiritual possession, demonic invasion, and satanic worship are common horror tropes, but with a little cultural definition, they can be vessels for carrying culturally significant symbols. Night of Deception, originally Dajal: Satu Malam Dipedajal, is a horror-cum-slasher directed by Mohd. Pierre Andre takes us headfirst into a haunted house for a bone-chilling night. The film plays with the usual horror trope of devil worshipping, navigates through a night of demonic rituals and hallucinations, but takes you ultimately to a juncture where the veil between the spiritual realm and the reality has thinned. Although the characters and their past could have been explored more to feed into the horror of the film, the action-heavy night charged with a demonic chase makes for a reasonable half-hour of nightmarish horror.

Spoilers Ahead

What Is The Film About?...

Designer biopic leads the pack with 10 nominations; Kristen Stewart, Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche in the running for actress awards.Scroll down for full list of nominees

Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent and Olivier Assays’ Sils Maria are the hot favourites in France’s 40th annual Cesar awards.

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences unveiled the nominations for this year’s César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.

Biopic Saint Laurent - exploring fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent’s life from 1967 to 1976 - led the pack with 10 nominations including best film, best director for Bonello, best actor for Gaspard Ulliel and best supporting actor for Louis Garrel.

Jalil Lespert’s rival biopic, Yves Saint Laurent, secured seven nominations. While it missed out in the best film and director categories, it scored nods with Pierre Niney for best actor, Charlotte Le Bon for best...

Malaysian actor, writer, director Pierre Andre has been a prolific force in Malay movie making machine and his latest work....Sniper bares all the hall marks of his work...cheap, dirty, and almost always great fun. Saying that, judging by the trailer, this looks a cut above the usual low budget you expect from a malay movie. The action looks pretty decent too! Synopsis: Ahmad is a former army officer who has been dismissed as a self-discipline problem. Rafi was an athlete sniper, they were both found in a killing game created by someone who is not known. Armed with a sniper and some ammunition, they were required to kill each other for their escape. In the turmoil, Rafi manages to discover who the mastermind behind the game is crazy, that ahmad. The man who actually invented the game and pretend to be a good person in the eyes of Rafi.

Found footage/handcam style horror movies seem to be becoming all the rage - with vary degrees of success - in Malaysia at the moment, and here’s the trailer for the latest offering from actor/director Pierre Andre…Seru, which follows a production team in the midst of shooting and yes you guessed it things start to turn narsty. Synopsis: When assistant director Sari gets hysterical and makeup artiste Julia collapses, things start to go haywire. Not long after, Julia disappears into the forest and the rest head out to find her. As the crewmembers get taken out one at a time by a vengeful entity, the reason behind the whole event is uncovered. Seru trailer...

Found footage/handcam style horror movies seem to be becoming all the rage - with vary degrees of success - in Malaysia at the moment, and here’s the trailer for the latest offering from actor/director Pierre Andre…Seru, which follows a production team in the midst of shooting and yes you guessed it things start to turn narsty. Synopsis: When assistant director Sari gets hysterical and makeup artiste Julia collapses, things start to go haywire. Not long after, Julia disappears into the forest and the rest head out to find her. As the crewmembers get taken out one at a time by a vengeful entity, the reason behind the whole event is uncovered. Seru trailer...