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The vampire is a figure of Western dread, a creature born of European castles and gothic gloom. Timothy Linh Bui’s Daydreamers relocates this myth to the bustling, humid streets of modern Ho Chi Minh City. The film posits that these creatures of the night arrived with colonialism, ancient parasites seeking new hosts.

To survive in this new land, they forged a pact: abstain from human blood, and perhaps, one day, regain their humanity. This fragile peace is embodied by Nhat, a quiet vampire living on a riverboat, who clings to this hope for redemption. His world is thrown into chaos by the return of his brother, Marco, a charismatic sybarite who leads a crew of vampires living a life of open indulgence in the city.

When Nhat’s vampiric nature is accidentally revealed to a mortal woman, Ha, he chooses to protect her. This act of mercy breaks the...

Vampires are all the rage this week, with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners now available at home. It’s joined by a bloody indie bloodsucker movie and even a Vietnamese vamp movie both sinking their fangs into VOD. But that’s just the start of this week’s Ten new horror releases, which also include the return of the Predator franchise with the saga’s first ever animated movie.

Here’s all the new horror that released from June 2 – June 6, 2025!

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From Magnificent Films and Silent D Pictures, Sean Cronin’s indie vampire movie Bogieville sank its teeth into all major VOD outlets beginning this past Tuesday, June 3.

In the film, “A young couple on the run come across an American trailer park and are convinced to stay by the sinister caretaker Crawford. But they soon learn that he is...

It’s that time again; our Summer Horror Preview 2025 is here! The 2025 slate of summer horror releases brings some of the year’s most anticipated releases and beyond, ensuring another packed season of horror ahead. As if that’s not enough, this guide comes packed with exclusive new peeks at summer’s biggest horror movies.

This guide covers the highlights of what’s already been announced, but as always, expect surprise streaming, Digital, and VOD releases to pop up in the coming months as horror continues to thrive and dominate.

Here are the horror movies you don’t want to miss in Summer 2025!

A Desert – May 2 (Theaters)

Photographer Alex Clark (Green Room’s Kai Lennox) embarks on a solo road trip to capture abandoned roadside structures and buildings in desolate stretches of Southwestern desert, hoping to reinvigorate his stalled career in director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut. Instead, Alex finds...

Stars: Tran Ngoc Vang, Thuan Nguyen, Chi Pu, Trinh Thao | Written by Timothy Linh Bui, Doan Si Nguyen | Directed by Timothy Linh Bui

Vampire cinema has been reinvented countless times, but Daydreamers carves out its own niche, not with gothic castles or European moors, but through the neon-lit backstreets of modern-day Saigon. It’s a bold, genre-bending vision that blends myth, melancholy, and cultural specificity in a way that’s both refreshing and visually arresting.

At its heart, Daydreamers tells the story of two vampire brothers. Marco is a predator through and through, living in the shadows with a brooding confidence. Nhật, on the other hand, is tormented by conscience, wrestling with what remains of his humanity. Their uneasy balance is disrupted when they encounter Hạ, a strong-willed high school student, and Triệu, the magnetic leader of an underground vampire society. As the threads of love, loyalty, and ancient secrets unravel,...

Vampire lore gets reimagined in Daydreamers, a groundbreaking genre-bender set in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Our exclusive clip invites you to try a tasty bite in a high-end restaurant serving up a vampire feeding frenzy.

The Vietnamese vampire genre-bender releases in theaters on May 2 before heading to all major digital platforms on June 3.

Daydreamers follows “Nhat, a young vampire raised in a secluded river community that suppresses its thirst for human blood in hopes of regaining lost humanity. When his long-lost brother Marco returns with stories of vampires thriving in the big city amongst humans, Nhat is drawn into a dangerous world that tests his loyalty, beliefs, and survival. His fate takes a turn when he meets Ha, a rebellious schoolgirl who uncovers his secret—forcing Nhat to break vampire law in an act of forbidden protection. As Trieu, a ruthless vampire queen, orders their execution, the city erupts into chaos,...

Coming soon from Dark Star Pictures is the groundbreaking Vietnamese vampire film, Daydreamers, directed by Timothy Linh Bui (Three Seasons). Daydreamers is one of the first vampire films ever to emerge from Vietnam, marking a crucial milestone for the country’s genre cinema. In honor of its upcoming release, we have an exclusive clip from the film featuring a vicious vampire attack.

But first, read the film’s full synopsis:

Nhat is a young vampire raised in a secluded river community that suppresses its thirst for human blood in hopes of regaining lost humanity. When his long-lost brother Marco returns with stories of vampires thriving in the big city amongst humans, Nhat is drawn into a dangerous world that tests his loyalty, beliefs, and survival. His fate takes a turn when he meets Ha, a rebellious schoolgirl who uncovers his secret, forcing Nhat to break vampire law in an act of forbidden protection.

The vampire trope in movies is almost as old as the art of cinema itself. They are invented as something foreign, exotic, usually quite elite that does not belong to the “ordinary world”. There are, however, numerous variations regarding their lore, so we, for instance, got an action hero who was born as vampire and grew to look like Wesley Snipes in his prime or a glittery day-walking, self-loathing highschool kid seeking for some sort of redemption in a soap opera masked as a saga. The point is that the vampires are tough to pin down (pun intended!) because one can vary the rules and the cosmology so much. Vietnamese filmmaker Timothy Linh Bui tried to do so in “Daydreamers” and, after a promising start, failed.

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The start is actually an animated sequence set against a voice-over narration which explains how we got such a chic European phenomenon in Vietnam.

"They're coming for us." "I'm not leaving you." Dark Star Pictures has revealed the official US trailer for an indie vampire romantic thriller titled Daydreamers, made by the Vietnamese filmmaker Timothy Linh Bui. The originally opened in Vietnam in late 2023, then premiered at the 2024 Viet Film Fest last year, now set for a May release in limited theaters in the US this summer. Set in present day Saigon. Vampires, once predators of the night, are all but extinct. The few who remain cling to a desperate truce to not kill humans for their blood. They remain clustered together in a riverboat community, setting a rule not to kill people so they can live safely. But in the shadows, a brother's thirst awakens, igniting a dark desire that will pit him against his own kind, shattering the fragile peace and plunging the city into a bloody new era... Featuring stunning visual effects & a powerful story,...

“I hunt. I kill. And I bleed them dry.”

Vietnamese vampire film Daydreamers will open in select U.S. theaters on May 2 with an expanded rollout to follow before hitting Digital on June 3 via Dark Star Pictures.

Set in modern-day Saigon, Nhat is a young vampire raised in a secretive riverboat community that suppresses its thirst for human blood. When his estranged brother tempts him with freedom in the city’s nightlife, Nhat breaks vampire law to protect a rebellious girl who uncovers his secret—sparking a deadly chain of events.

One of the first vampire films to emerge from Vietnam, Daydreamers blends horror, thriller, and fantasy elements into an emotionally charged twist on monster mythology with stunning visual effects and a powerful story of loyalty, identity, and survival.

Written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui, the film stars Chi Pu, Trinh Thao, Thuan Nguyen, and Tran Ngoc Vang.

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Vampires stalk modern-day Vietnam in the new horror film Daydreamers. In a new Collider-exclusive trailer, the streets of Ho Chi Minh City run red with blood as two brothers take different paths to exploring their inhumanity. The film will have a limited theatrical release starting May 2, with a wider release to follow; it will be released digitally and on video on demand on June 3.

In our exclusive trailer, we meet Nhat (Tran Ngoc Vang), a young vampire who's been raised in the country and taught to suppress his bloodsucking urges. Soon, his long-lost brother Marco (Thuan Nguyen) comes back into his life and introduces him to a new way of life in the city, where vampires run rampant and prey upon the city's human inhabitants. However, there he also meets Ha (Trinh Thao), a rebellious girl who forces him to break vampire law. Now, the city's ageless vampire queen Trieu...

Exclusive: Vietnamese vampire thriller Daydreamers is getting a U.S. release via Dark Star Pictures, which has set a limited theatrical run from May 2nd and a digital launch from June 3rd.

From producer-director Timothy Linh Bui (Three Seasons), the film is set 400 years ago, reimagining vampire lore in Southeast Asia. As European vampires faced extinction, they fled to Vietnam – then known as Annam – bringing with them the dark curse. The film introduces a dark supernatural world set in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Cast includes Vietnamese superstar Chi Pu, the singer and actress with more than 20 million followers who became a local sensation after her performance in the hit Chinese reality series Sisters Who Make Waves. She’s joined by rising actors Trinh Thao, Thuan Nguyen, and Tran Ngoc Vang.

The movie was nominated for six awards at the Vietnamese 2025 Ngoi Sao Xanh (New Face of the Year) Awards and won Best Director,...

BayView Entertainment will be releasing the horror sequel Muoi: The Curse Returns on Digital Platforms in the USA, Canada and Mexico on 30th April 2024.

Muoi: The Curse Returns will arrive on AVOD Digital Platforms in the USA, Canada and Mexico on 25th June 2024.

With Muoi: The Curse Returns, Vietnam’s first female horror director, Hang Trinh makes her debut with this stylish sequel to the Korean feature, Muoi: The Legend Of The Portrait. With an artistic visual approach and a humanist story aesthetic, Vietnam’s first exorcism-themed horror film combines tense elements of a love triangle and blood-soaked affairs. Winner of the Best Sound award at the 2023 Golden Kite Film Festival, the film features popular Vietnamese star, Chi Pu. Chi Pu is the first and the only Vietnamese artist with a self-titled mobile game and has the most followers of any Vietnamese actress on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

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Muoi: The Curse Returns is a light sequel to the 2007 Korean-Vietnamese horror film Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait. Sixteen years later, the story fails to impress and gives a rather dated impression. Along with being quite predictable, this story of love, jealousy, sisterhood, and frights is way too old-school. Although the film makes many artistic choices that look interesting and make the film aesthetically pleasing to watch, other than looking like art, there’s nothing much to it. I was quite impressed by the first 5 minutes; that looked promising until the title appeared, but it doesn’t really go downhill from there; it just sluggishly moves from one plot point to the next with no real depth to any of it. For those wondering, it can be a standalone watch if you’re interested in looking at something pretty with a couple of gruesome scenes on a Sunday evening.

The horror opened in second place with over 100,000 admissions from its opening weekend.

Vietnamese sales agent Skyline Media announced a string of sales for local horror film Muoi: The Curse Returns ahead of its participation in Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market.

The film is about a young art dealer who discovers the cursed portrait of Muoi while visiting a long-lost friend at an old mansion. It is billed as a sequel to 2007’s Muoi: Legend Of The Portrait, which was considered the first Korean-Vietnamese co-production. According to a 1940s local legend, Muoi fell in love with a painter, but...

Sales confirmed on Asura [pictured], The Housemaid and My Annoying Brother.

South Korea’s Cj Entertainment has announced a slew of deals on Toronto buzz title Asura: The City Of Madness, Korea-Vietnam co-production The Housemaid and upcoming sports drama My Annoying Brother, featuring D.O. of K-pop group Exo.

Directed by Kim Sung-soo, crime thriller Asura: The City Of Madness features Jung Woo-sung (Cold Eyes), Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing), Ju Ji-hoon (Confession) and Kwak Do-won (The Wailing).

The film sold to Taiwan (Long Shong), German-speaking Europe (Splendid), Australia/New Zealand (Jbg Pictures), Turkey (Medyavizyon), Thailand (M Pictures), Philippines (Viva Communications), Mongolia (Bloomsbury), Hong Kong/Macau (Deltamac), North America (Cj Entertainment America), pan-Asia pay TV (Matv) and in-flight worldwide ex. Korea (Emphasis).

Directed by Derek Nguyen, The Housemaid stars Kate Nhung and Jean-Michel Richaud in a haunted mansion thriller that takes place during Vietnam’s French colonial era. The Vietnamese and English-language film sold to Australia/ New Zealand...