“They are all my friends,” Khoo says of the directors involved when Options met him at the St Regis Kuala Lumpur. “I pitched an idea to HBO in late 2016 to do a series based on Asian folklore. What’s so great about this region is that we’re so different. We all believe in different… I mean our folklore is so rich, and I wanted all of that to be part of this series. It’s also why I wanted it all to be done in our respective mother tongues. The feel of it is necessary.”
SINGAPORE (Oct 22): Singapore is playing host to its inaugural horror film festival, Scream Asia Film Festival, from Oct 19 to 28. And its curator, Eric Khoo, is the ideal man for the job. Khoo was in Malaysia recently to promote his latest project, a horror series named Folklore, which he created in partnership with cable television giant HBO Asia. The six-episode anthology features standalone stories helmed by directors from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Thailand.
Khoo himself directs the episode featuring a teenage pontianak (female vampire). Malaysia is represented by Ho Yuhang (Mrs K, At the End of Daybreak and Bunohan), whose story of a toyol (a ghost kept by certain individuals to steal money and other valuables) stars popular actor Bront Palarae.
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