The Hole (1998)
Urban Disorder
Tsai Ming-Liang film made to celebrate the millennium about the taunting relationship that grows between a man and a woman affected by a hole left between their apartments by a plumber
Taiwanese Cinema
Silk (2006)
Taiwanese Ghost Story
Fascinating and original Taiwanese film about scientists investigating a haunted house and employing various methods to trap the ghosts
Honey Pupu (2011)
Mysterious Disappearances
A confusing Taiwanese film about a series of mysterious disappearances. This is a film that feels like a series of random improv scenes constructed without anything resembling a plot
Soul (2013)
Taiwanese Horror Film/Possession
Taiwanese horror film about an elderly man who finds another soul is inhabiting his son’s body. A very different sort of possession story. While the horror element peters out in its third act, the film creates a very mysterious atmosphere and a series of tight thriller tensions and complications
Zombie Fight Club (2014)
Zombie Outbreak
It is mind-boggling to think how you could combine zombies with Fight Club, the classic anti-capitalist manifesto about brawling clubs and split personality … Such an idea proves too challenging for this Taiwanese effort but we do get a solid zombie version of The Raid
Plurality (2021)
Multiple Personalities Implanted in a Body
Taiwanese film in which multiple personalities are implanted into a prisoner’s body, one of which is a serial killer, in an effort to find a missing child
Incantation (2022)
Found Footage/Aftermath of a Paranormal Investigation
The most successful Taiwanese horror film of all time, a Found Footage film about paranormal investigators who witness a ritual and are afterwards haunted by it