Visits: Hungry Ghost Anthology (2004)

- written January 2009

Summary: A radio talk-show host introduces us to some callers…           1) "1413" - Mae Ling doesn’t remember the suicide pact that left her best friend dead and herself in the hospital – but now a pale, terrifying figure is stalking the shadowy corridors, and there will be no rest for either of them until a deadly score is settled….           2) "Waiting for Them" - Sam spends her life with people who aren’t there – an occasional boyfriend, too distant to provide the emotional support she desires, and her depressed friend Ann, with whom she spends long hours on the phone talking over a failed relationship. Is it any wonder that someone with so little connection to her wn life should find herself with one foot planted in the world of the dead?           3) "Nodding Scoop" - An aspiring young videographer seeks to photograph a spirit, conjured during a traditional divination ritual – but this is no benign parlor trick. When the callow participants offend the ghost they have summoned for their entertainment, they find to their horror that the game they are playing is for keeps….           4) "Anybody Home?" - Who may be watching you when you think you’re alone? Given the technology available today, it is far more than just the restless shades of the departed who may have their invisible eyes on us. But in this chilling tale of morbid obsession gone to deadly extremes, what you see may be disturbing, but it’s what you can’t see that could be lethal.           Overall: Interesting set of films and each connected loosely to the other. Each one takes awhile at times to get to the point but I enjoyed the settings of them all. I did think each had a the potential to have been scarier….especially “nodding Scoop.” But interesting movies and a nice entry by “Malaysia” into the horror genre.

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