‘Dead Talents Society’ Review: A Frightfully Charming Taiwanese Horror-Comedy About the Hell of Personal Branding
‘Dead Talents Society’ Review: A Frightfully Charming Taiwanese Horror-Comedy About the Hell of Personal Branding
The pressures of fame and social recognition continue into the afterlife in John Hsu's fun ode to East Asian horror films.
Ghosts usually come with a fair bit of baggage in the movies: A tragic romance leading to an even more tragic suicide, maybe, or a howl for justice from a murder victim from beyond the grave. The protagonist of “Dead Talents Society” has no such tale attached to her untimely (and embarrassing) death, and this is where her problems begin. John Hsu’s frightfully entertaining Taiwanese horror-comedy imagines a world where the dead are just as beholden to the pressures of fame as the living, and an industry has grown around ambitious apparitions building their personal brands. Urban legends live forever, and forgotten ghosts literally disappear — so get out there and scare ‘em good, kid!
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1Too early for news about this, unless you're going to theaters in Taiwan.
1We'll post more news as it appears but it is never too early to get on the radar. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for a screening.
1but it is never too early to get on the radar
Eh... We have tons of movies we can actually see, and heaps of movies we can see very soon (especially as we enter October). Movies we cannot see for a long and indeterminate time don't do any good. When hype pushes too far ahead, it's just waiting and distraction from things that actually are relevant. It's just more noise we need to filter through, and there's so much noise.
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