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Malaysian Academy Award Entry ‘Roh’ Hits Blu-ray in November
Malaysia’s official entry for the Best International Film at the 2021 Academy Awards, Roh will be released on Blu-ray on November 25 via Film Movement.
Also known as Soul, the 2019 folk horror movie is presented in its native Malay with English subtitles.
Special features:
- The Making of Roh
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a strange young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters and after spending the night she delivers an ominous prophecy: the family will all soon die.
As strangers begin to show up on her doorstep, and terrible events crop up around them, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest.
Writer-director Emir Ezwan makes his feature debut on the film, which stars Farah Ahmad, Mhia Farhana, Harith Haziq, Namron, June Lojong, and Putri Qaseh.
Paul Lê wrote in the Top 10 Hidden Horror Gems You Might’ve Missed in 2021, “The confining forest prevents a quick and easy escape, and the dread is immovable. On top of all that is a merciless plot trajectory. Even though Roh never cares to explain itself, the movie is thoroughly unsettling.”
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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