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Audio Format: DD 5.1, DD 2.0
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Chinese, Korean
Region Code: 3
Year Made: 2005
Running Time: 96
Release Date: 09/14/2007
Twenty years ago, an inexplicable mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household, where the entire clan hanged to their deaths at the exact same hour, place, and height. Only one member survived. To this day, the case remains unsolved.
Twenty years later, distant relative James inherits the Yang MANSION, moving in with his girlfriend Yo, a dancer who aspires to study in the U.S. To celebrate the engagement, they invite their friends ?Yi-Chen and Ah-Tseng - to their new home and stay the night.
As supernatural events begin to take place, James and Yo discover the eccentricities of the house including a mysterious fourth floor. Delving deep into the Yang family history, James and Yo find out that the Yang fortune was built with the aid of “child ghosts”, dead babies fed on blood and refused the opportunity to reincarnate. Raising child ghosts may bring great fortune, but at the same time great doom.
From here on, James and Yo will unearth more secrets about the Yang family - and even about James himself - while they must confront the evil dwelling on the fourth floor.
“The Heirloom ” started off with a short explanation of the well-known supernatural tradition of keeping a child ghost which has been rumored that that some Asians practice. Then it veered off into the formulaic Hollywood Horror setting where the lead character, James, (Jason Chang) inherits a spooky house and the eerie happenings start to occur around him, his girlfriend, Yo (Terri Kwan), friends and people who comes in contact with the spooky house.
The way this movie is advertised and how the movie started with the explanation of ghost child would inevitable raise the expectations of child ghosts haunting in this movie. But if you do go in with such expectations, it is likely that you will be disappointed as there isn’t many apparitions or any interesting explanations that goes into depth about the child ghost. Instead this movie is laced with the tragedy of traditional family practices and the elements of child ghosts are pretty much the secondary devices to keep the movie going.
Perhaps “The Heirloom” should take a clue from Kevin Tong’s “The Maid” since it is touted as a horror movie. Given that “The Maid” is not the best representative of the horror genre but it is able, at least, to conjure the atmospheric feel of horror and contains effective scares ?a-minute tactic that makes you dread that but you have to stay on to watch the movie, which are all seriously lacking in “The Heirloom” If only the Heirloom had lingered a bit longer in certain scenes to raise the suspense or used effective soundtracks to build up the climatic scares, then it would at least pass my minimal scare factors for a horror movie.
Special Features:
- Movie Trailer
- Making of
- Deleted Scenes
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