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SDAFF 2025 : Haunted Mountains The Yellow Taboo
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Legend speaks of haunted mountains in Taiwan, where lost hikers are led astray by a ghostly apparition in a yellow slicker, to their deaths. Time loop horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror, with movies like Donnie Darko, Happy Death Day, and the recent Until Dawn giving us entries filled with comedy, tragedy, gore and, of course, looped deaths in some of the most horror-ific ways possible. Haunted Mountains dives us deep into Taiwanese...
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SDAFF 2023 Concrete Utopia
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a massive earthquake in Seoul causes the destruction of the overcrowded apartment complexes, the last standing facility becomes a battleground for the beleaguered survivors. So, here in real life, South Korea has been experiencing a...
SDAFF 2023 Sleep
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A young wife pregnant with her first child becomes terrified by her husbands increasingly odd sleep-walking. This is a very relevant one y’all, for one particular reason – everyone knows what it’s like to have to go without sleep, and what it...
SDAFF 2023 Tiger Stripes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass At the ripe old age of 12, Malay Muslim girl Zaffan is the first in her class to experience physical growth changes, and all the stigma that comes with them. It’s virtually impossible to watch this film, beautifully shot in the Malay jungles...