The Weird Villa | |
Director: | Nop Sombat |
Producer: | Nop Sombat |
Starring: | Nop Bayyareth Danh Monica |
Editing: | Heng Tola |
Distributor: | Angkorwat Production |
Country: | Cambodia |
Runtime: | 120 minutes |
Language: | Khmer |
The Weird Villa (Central Khmer: ភូមិគ្រឹះចម្លែក|Phumĭkrœ̆h Châmlêk) is a 2004 Khmer psychological thriller that was advertised as being based on actual events which took place during the French colonial period of Cambodia's history.
With a plotline steeped in psychological horror, the movie echos the styles and themes of numerous classic foreign thrillers such as the South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, a movie which features the appearance of a similar stepmother character. The film's setting also resembled the American-Spanish The Others (2001). Some poltergeists and paranormal occurrences during the climax of the movie appear to be a nod to several scenes from M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense.
The Weird Villa did well at the Cambodian box office.[1]