The Singaporean horror film Repossession is set to receive a digital release in the United States this Tuesday, December 21st, courtesy of Gravitas Ventures and Kamikaze Dogfight – and in anticipation of this release, we’ve gotten our hands on the trailer for the film. Check it out in the embed above!
Repossession marks the feature directorial debut of writers Scott C. Hillyard and Goh Ming Siu (who has earned many credits for his work in Singapore television over the last couple decades). Said to be “in the tradition of Get Out and Parasite“, the film tells the following story:
50-year-old Jim loses his high-flying job in status-conscious Singapore, but his ego and pride compel him to hide this from his wife and daughter. His only confidante is his best friend. Desperately clinging onto the material symbols of his past success, he unlocks a hibernating malevolent force, with sinister roots in long-buried secrets. As his dream life crumbles around him, worlds collide, the lines between then and now become increasingly blurred, and Jim descends into a waking nightmare.
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Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng, Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Rachel Wan, and Matthew Loo star.
The writers/directors also produced the film. Speaking with Film Daily, Hillyard revealed the inspiration for the story of Repossession:
The situation that Jim finds himself in was inspired by several high-profile cases of mass retrenchment in Singapore while we were conceptualizing the film. It’s a very real issue that that generation faces now. They bought into the notion of the Singapore Dream and a particular route to that dream, only to be discarded once they weren’t useful. However, it isn’t just specific to Singapore. Especially with the economic fallout from this pandemic, this is taking place all over the world. Singapore independent film is known for small, intimate human dramas. We decided to go a different route because we wanted to carve out a niche for ourselves.”
Repossession got a lot of positive attention while it was making the festival rounds, so it will be interesting to see what the reaction to it will be like now that it’s getting a wider release. Judging by the trailer, it looks like it could be quite dark and troubling.
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