Haven Productions is introducing BACK HOME, a phantom tale from Hong Kong, to UK film audiences this Halloween.
The story is set in the 7th month of the lunar calendar, which is the “Ghost Month” in Chinese tradition, BACK HOME is filled with spooky Chinese folklore practices and interwoven with haunting Hong Kong urban legends.
The film is shot in Hong Kong’s old housing estates which are backdrops for numerous horror films as well as other iconic movies in Hong Kong cinema.
The film premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival in July, and had its European premiere at the Zurich Film Festival in September, receiving much critical acclaim internationally.
The film stars Hollywood actress Bai Ling, who first made her name in the Hollywood movie THE CROW, and later rose to fame in RED CORNER (1997) in her leading role opposite Richard Gere. The male cast is led by Anson Kong, member of Hong Kong’s most popular boy group MIRROR, the city’s equivalent of K-pop bands that was phenomenal in reviving Cantopop culture which was on decline since 2000s.
BACK HOME follows Heung Wing (Anson Kong) with a paranormal ability to see ghosts. He returns from overseas knowing that his mother (Bai Ling) is in coma after a suicidal attempt. He stays in his childhood home in an old public housing estate in Hong Kong. Everything in his old home and old neighbourhood looks eerily weird. A series of suicide cases happens in the housing estate, and he starts to see ghosts appearing in front of him again. That evokes his traumatic childhood memories of seeing spectral beings, while he had to pretend not…
The film is the feature debut of Nate Ki (a.k.a. Tse Ka-ki), who is, apart from the director, a novelist and scriptwriter. As author, he has published several novels based on widely circulated ghost stories in urban Hong Kong.
Back Home will be released UK-wide by Haven Productions on 27 October, 2023.
Find out cinema listings on Haven Productions website.
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