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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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SDIFF 2022 The Wind and the Reckoning
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a small 19th century colony of Native Hawaiians who refuse to accept government-mandated exile when leprosy breaks out amongst their people and home. Imagine it. You’re a Native Hawai’ian, having lived in and loved the islands...
SDIFF 2022 American Murderer
The story of how small-time criminal Jason Derek Brown went from scamming his friends and family out of money, to occupying a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for murder! Meet Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), the big kid in an adults body, charming and glib-tongued...
SDAFF 2022 Detectives vs. Sleuths
Hong Kong is plagued by a series of terrible murders, of former suspects in cold cases who’ve evaded capture for years, by a vigilante gang calling themselves the Chosen Sleuths. In order to tell a whole entire story that includes new generations of detectives and...