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To get away from her boyfriend Jerome (Jerod Edington), Alyssa (Marina
Resa) starts her job as a housekeeper for a certain Miss Wu (Shirley To)
and her aunt (Akiko Shima) - both of Chinese descent -, who live in a
mansion in the middle of nowhere. What immediately strikes Alyssa odd is
that the two women seem to be obsessed with (typically Chinese) ceremonies to appease the
death - but since Alyssa likes her job and her bosses otherwise, she
doesn't think too much about it ... at least not until she gets drawn into a
weird ghost world occasionally, and it seems the ghosts want to tell her
something about a former housekeeper of the place named Mei Ling (Anna
Lee), who has disappeared about a year ago. Alyssa makes friends with
neighbour Blake (Rick Irvin), but the more she investigates the fate of
Mei Ling, the more she comes to the conclusion that it was actually him
who had done away with her ... until she finds out the truth: It was Miss
Wu and her aunt who killed Mei Ling, first and foremost because she stood
in the way of them inheriting their mansion ... Once Miss Wu and aunt
find out what Alyssa has found out though they go after her. But Alyssa is not alone,
the ghosts of Mei Ling and her friends are helping her, and while they
take out the aunt, it's Alyssa herself who ties up and walls in Miss Wu to
leave her at the mercy of the ghosts of those she has wronged - and the
ghosts are merciless. As soon as Alyssa has walled in Miss Wu though,
her ex Jerome shows up on her doorstep, and he has turned serialkiller
since they've last met - and wouldn't you know it, Alyssa is next on his
list ... thank God though Blake, who has somehow fallen for Alyssa despite
her wild (and untrue) accusations, just happens to pass by to help her
kill Jerome - and thus it all ends happily. In pure concept, Ghost
Month is pretty well conceived, a deliberately slow-moving film that's more
creepy and mysterious than it's outright shocking. Unfortunately though,
this concept is not supported by a good script, the ghoststory elements of
the film make little sense (even in genre context) and sometimes are even
misleading, some subplots (especially that about neighbour Blake) are
seemingly picked up and dropped rather at random, and the whole story arc
about Alyssa's serialkiller ex does not fit in with the rest of the story
... all of which is too bad, because the film does have some really
interesting moments.
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