Eric Khoo Wraps Horror Series Hungry Souls: From Hell, With Love, Starring Rexen Cheng, Danny Lee, Hayley Woo
Production has wrapped on Eric Khoo’s Hungry Ghost Festival-set mini-series Hungry Souls: From Hell, With Love, It stars Taiwanese actors Rexen Cheng, Christina Mok and Danny Lee, and homegrown actors Richard Low, Ayden Sng, Hayley Woo and Fang Rong.
The five-part supernatural romance, which cuts back and forth between the past and present, tells the story of Bao (The Diam Diam Era’s Lee), a chef with the ability to see spirits, who helps an amnesiac spirit (Mok) reunite with her lover (The Tag Along: Devil Fish’s Cheng).
Hungry Souls: From Hell, With Love is directed by Singaporean filmmakers Meng Ong and Caleb Huang and produced by Khoo’s Zhao Wei Films and South Korean shingle CJ ENM.
Khoo, who is no stranger to telling food-centric tales (Ramen Teh, Recipe, Food Lore) tells 8days.sg via Whatapp that the dishes to look out on the show is “the threadfin and salted fish — a dish for the living and the dead — and duck noodles”.
The series was filmed over 22 days in Singapore and Batam, with the latter standing in for 1970s Singapore. No word on when and where the show will drop.
Food for thought: Richard Low and Danny Lee in a scene from Hungry Souls: From Hell, With Love.
Elsewhere, Nicole Midori Woodford, who directed the Mindee Ong-starring episode ‘The Excursion’ for Khoo’s HBO anthology series Folklore, has also completed principal photography for her feature debut, Last Shadow at First Light. Filmed in Singapore and the city of Rikuzentakata in Japan, the supernatural coming-of-age story stars Masatoshi Nagase, Mariko Tsutsui, Mihaya Shirata and Peter Yu.
Shirata plays a 16-year-old trying to piece together her mother’s last days with help from her cynical taxi-driver uncle (Nagase) in Tokyo. The answers lie in their family hometown in the northeastern coastal region of Japan.
Per Variety, Woodford, in a statement, said, “This is a film borne out of darkness and loss, of a family’s frailties, set in both Singapore and Japan. Shooting between countries, I hope to capture the diverse mise-en-scene from the urban cities to the vast transformed landscapes my characters are lost within. It has been incredible to work with my actors amidst such poignant terrain.”
No word on when the Japan-Singapore co-production is slated to be released.
Food Lore, Folklore and Ramen Teh are now streaming on HBO Go.
Photos: CJ ENM HK
