According to Box Office Vietnam, the movie "Soul Lights" topped the box office on 10.2 with 3,106 mats - the highest at the present time.
After 3 days of release, the film collected 49 billion dong, quickly overcame 2 films causing fever on Tet holiday, "the quartet of newspapers" and "Silver Kiss Billion".
The film is inspired by the story of Nam Xuong girl, filmed in Cao Bang and has the presence of the cast is quite strange with the big screen.
It is impossible not to mention the attraction of the famous story of Nam Xuong daughter - the work is familiar to the audience for generations. The original story left a torment, pity about the wife with a tragic fate, and when expressed in the cinema language, the familiar light of Vietnamese literature became a soul light containing many aggregates.
Therefore, the "sound light" has the original advantage that is too famous, even without the media to promote too much.
Until hitting theaters, despite rapidly increasing the projection and revenue, the "sound of the soul" stumbled on many controversies about the script and acting.
Many spectators criticize the movie discrete, lack logic, do not exploit the profound messages of the story of Nam Xuong girl, the acting is not convincing. "Soul lights" are compared to many foreign horror and spiritual works such as "Exhuma", "Insidious", "Stranger Things".
Many "grit" are indicated, many details are left open, making the film debate right after its debut. Acting is also a major minus point that makes viewers unable to sympathize with the character.
The same story happens with many horror/sensational works inspired by Vietnamese folklore and folklore works.
In 2024, the Vietnamese screen witnessed the breakthrough of Vietnamese horror films, with "Ma Da" and "Cam" exceeded the hundred billion turnover. The beginning of the "trend" of folk horror films is "demon crane" - is said to be the first Vietnamese horror film to collect VND 100 billion.
In the world, the spiritual horror film taking folk materials has been considered a separate genre. This film is often set in the village, exploiting the theme of folk beliefs, sacrifices, scary legends.
The stories are transmitted for generations of ghosts, spiritual cats, spiritual cranes, demons, ghosts, dogs wearing hats, he is ... covered with a shadow of a ghostly and devious spiritual world, gloomy , attracting exploited filmmakers.
However, with inherent weaknesses lying in the script, Vietnamese horror films are still controversial about creativity and weight in the message. Vietnamese film genre has another restriction lying in the tricks and context.
What is needed in horror films is not only a scene of threat, gore violence, but also having to sprinkle fear, create a sense of stifling, tension through the story and the scene.
In order to recreate the space with its own customs and habits, there should be many elements from the script, arranging the scene, sound, light, acting, actor tone, skill ... to convince people see.
