‘The Damp’: Moisture and Humidity Bring Horror in Taiwanese Horror
Singapore’s Mokster Films is to launch sales on the Taiwanese supernatural horror The Damp at EFM, reports ScreenDaily.
Set at an all-girls school in a perpetually damp mountain region, the story follows an introverted teenager who discovers that several students had died in the nearby river months earlier, a scandal that the school attempts to erase. However, the dead students return through moisture and humidity, which becomes the medium through which their ghostly presence exists, turning them into an unavoidable invasive force against the living.
The feature is written and directed by Fu Tien-yu, a Taiwanese filmmaker who was honoured with Tokyo’s Kurosawa Akira Award in 2024.
“It grows naturally out of my drama work, which has always focused on everyday emotions,” Fu said of her move into horror. “Horror allows those feelings especially fear and emotional pressure in women’s lives to surface in a more immediate and visceral way. I want to create a horror film where fear accumulates rather than strikes.”
The script was written by Fu with veteran screenwriter Yang Qian-ling, whose credits include Lo Chi-leung’s The Vanished Murderer and Nick Cheung’s Keeper Of Darkness.
Production is due to start this March in Taiwan, with a theatrical release planned for 2027.
It is an Asobi production, with Steve Wang as producer who will also handle the theatrical distribution in Taiwan through his company Activator. The Taipei-based company previously handled the marketing and distribution of Detention and Incantation, both among the highest-grossing Taiwanese horror titles of all time.
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