Single mother Yan (Wong Sze Zen) has just moved a new appartment with
her daughter Ying Ying (Leong Juin Juin), and everything should be great
... but Yan can't help but noticing something is wrong with the place, and
soon enough she comes to the conclusion it is haunted, but what's worse,
it seems the haunting has something to do with Ying Ying, and to find out
what's happening, she tries to track down the kid's father whom she has
never known (Ying Ying was conceived via in vitro fertilisation) - to ultimately
find him to be a neighbour of hers. Thing is, she also finds you that this
neighbour has killed his family and keeps their corpses in a secret room -
and now he wants to make her part of his corpse collection. Somehow, Yan
manages to escape him, and when he comes after her, he is run over by a
car and killed. With this affair resolved, Yan has to find out a bitter
truth: She never had a daughter called Ying Ying (or any other daughter for
that matter), Ying Ying was just the ghost of her homicidal neighbour's
deceased daughter who used Yan to help her uncover the truth ... By-the-numbers
Asian thriller that really doesn't feature anything you haven't seen
before in any number of other Asian thrillers (and better, too), that
features a somehow less than exciting finale, and that does not
necessarily make perfect sense in its resolution. That said, Seed of
Darkness is not a terrible movie, just an unremarkable piece of genre
cinema you really needn't watch.
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