‘The Scourge’: Vietnamese Horror Game Gets Feature Film Adaptation
Skyline Media, a Vietnam-based international sales agent, is heading to the Cannes Film Market with a five-title slate led by The Scourge, one of the first feature film adaptations of a Vietnamese video game IP, reports Variety.
The source game has topped China’s Steam Early Access chart, accumulated more than 60,000 downloads, earned a 94% positive rating on the platform, and drawn millions of views on YouTube.
The horror feature draws on a Vietnamese urban legend about a cursed Saigon apartment block from the 1990s, following an estranged young man who returns home to discover his mother is possessed. He must work alongside his sister to unravel a malevolent force tied to forbidden rituals, buried family secrets, and the spirit world.
The project is produced by Charlie Nguyen and Jimmy Pham Nghiem of Chanh Phuong Films, whose credits include The Rebel and Clash.
A second horror title, The 10th House, comes from ProductionQ, the Vietnamese period horror studio behind Vietnamese Horror Story, The Soul Reaper, and The Sisters.
The film is helmed by Tran Huu Tan and Hoang Quan, who share directing and producing duties, and centers on a young man who begins documenting strange events in his home after his father’s mysterious death. He exposes a forbidden ritual rooted in Vietnamese folk magic that links the building to a chain of violent supernatural occurrences.
“As the first Vietnamese feature film inspired by an original local game IP, ‘The Scourge’ is a major step forward not only for Vietnamese cinematic storytelling, but for the country’s broader content ecosystem,” said Hang Trinh, CEO of Skyline Media.