HBO’s six-part hour-long horror anthology and original drama series “Folklore” premiered October 7, 2018 on HBO Asia, but we didn’t know at the time if/when it would be playing here in the United States. The good news? It’s coming real soon.
Entertainment Weekly reports this week that “Folklore” will premiere February 1st “on HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and partners’ streaming platforms.”
All six episodes take place across multiple Asian countries including Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Each episode is based on each country’s deeply-rooted superstitions and myths, and presented in the local language of the country that the episode is based in, with English and local-language subtitles. (Variety)
The six directors involved in “Folklore” are Indonesia’s Joko Anwar (“Halfworlds,” “Satan’s Slave”); Japan’s Takumi Saitoh; Lee Sang-Woo (“Barbie,” “Dirty Romance”) from Korea, Ho Yuhang (“Rain Dogs”, “Mrs. K”) from Malaysia; Eric Khoo (“12 Storeys”) from Singapore, and Thailand’s Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (“Last Life in the Universe”) from Thailand.