Trailer Premiere – The Unbidden!
Steve Barton
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The Unbidden is a female-driven Asian horror film that hopes to put its own spin on the paranormal thriller sub-genre, and right now we are happy to scare up a trailer premiere for you cats! Dig it!
From the Press Release:
The Asian-American female-centered paranormal horror film The Unbidden was sold to Viva Pictures after its world premiere at this year’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The Unbidden marks the first feature film ever sold out of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in its 32 years of running, where The Unbidden won a Special Jury Award for Best Sound Design.
Quentin Lee (White Frog, The People I’ve Slept With) directed from a script by Narhee Ahn (Purity). Tamlyn Tomita (“Teen Wolf”, The Joy Luck Club), Julia Nickson (Rambo: First Blood Part II, Half-Life), Amy Hill (50 First Dates, “UnREAL”), and Elizabeth Sung (Memoirs of a Geisha, Lethal Weapon 4) star as the group of friends desperate to save one of their own from her dark secret. Michelle Krusiec, Akemi Look, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, and Karin Anna Cheung appear as the women’s younger selves, joined by Hayden Szeto and Jason Yee as the men at the heart of the deadly mystery.
“If you’re a fan of the horror, psychological thriller, family melodrama, or Asian-American film genres, you’re in for a treat, not a trick,” director Quentin Lee expressed of his first horror film. “Our intention was to create a wildly original independent feature with an all Asian-American cast that aims to not only entertain with shocks and thrills, but bring on the debate about difficult emotional issues. This is a female-driven film that deals with domestic violence and the morality of retribution.”
Xiaoming Yan executive produced. Producers are Charles Lei, Stanley Yung, and Quentin Lee.
Synopsis:
Mystery novelist Lauren Lee (Tomita) is haunted by the ghost of a tortured, bloodied man. She tries to forget the apparition’s terrifying warnings and her unstable mental state by hosting dinner with her best friends (Nickson, Sung, and Hill). Each of the women has her own idea and opinion to make Lauren feel better.
In the midst of a séance that Rachel believes will exorcise Lauren’s demons, a mysterious young man (Szeto) arrives brandishing a gun. He holds the women hostage in order to get to the truth of the whereabouts of his missing father (Yee).
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