Dead Talents Society (2024)

Original title

鬼才之道

Directed by

John Hsu

Genre

comedy horror

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 104 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In an afterlife bureaucracy, ghosts must scare humans to stay in the mortal world. A nervous new ghost learns the trade from a scheming agent and a faded star.

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What happens

Dead Talents Society (Chinese: 鬼才之道) is a 2024 Taiwanese horror comedy film directed and co-written by John Hsu, starring Chen Bolin, Sandrine Pinna, Gingle Wang, Eleven Yao, Bai Bai, and Soso Tseng. Set in a fictional underworld where ghosts can linger in the mortal realm by competing to haunt humans, the film follows a rookie ghost (Wang) as she embarks on a journey to find her own uniqueness under the tutelage of a passionate agent (Chen) and a washed-up diva (Pinna). The film had its world premiere at the 26th Taipei Film Festival on 28 June 2024, and released theatrically on 7 August in Taiwan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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