Soul Eater reached the revenue milestone of 56 billion after only 9 days of release, what attracts viewers?

With this achievement, The Soul Eater became the 6th Vietnamese film this year with a revenue of over 50 billion VND, following Mrs. Nu's House (475 billion VND), Face Off 6: Ticket of Destiny (273 billion VND) , Southern Forest Land (140.4 billion VND), Super donkey meets super swamp (122 billion VND), Sisters and sisters 2 (121 billion VND).

Despite being edited quite a lot after being censored, The Soul Eater is still a highly rated horror film project and has received the attention of a large audience who love to explore cultural experiences through folk horror films. .

Up to now, the movie has entered its second week of release. Even though it has to "confront" a number of foreign blockbusters, including Aquaman 2, the movie still has a pretty good number of tickets sold.

Before hitting theaters and being well received by audiences, The Soul Eater went through a difficult journey of censorship three times, once having to postpone its release date. The film is expected partly thanks to the effect of the original story and the series film - Tet in Hell Village. The content of The Soul Eater is a prequel to the already shown series.

Soul Eater is a movie adapted from the original novel of the same name by writer Thao Trang. In addition to the image of the mouse wedding, the audience also encountered images of Vietnamese culture such as water puppets, water pavilion, rhymes...

Besides, favorite details in Hell village such as Mrs. Van ferrying souls, sweating blood, and fireflies catching souls will appear on the big screen one after another.

Author Thao Trang shared: "When adapting Tet in Hell Village , director Tran Huu Tan and I had the opportunity to go deeply and thoroughly into this world. There, I saw a vast sky of unexplored ideas and stories.

That's why Soul Eater was born. I hope the audience will be satisfied with our new work."

During the recent cinetour event, the Soul Eater crew revealed that the ending of the film is directly related to the story of Tet In Hell Village season 2. Accordingly, director Tran Huu Tan and author Thao Trang said The Three Demons will also return in some way in upcoming works of the Hell Village universe.

The reason why the movie is loved by the audience is because, The Soul Eater does not pursue a horror narrative with meaty, bloody scares, but opens with magical, sinister arrangements from the visuals, costumes, backgrounds. Viewers are stimulated by strong visual effects such as blood sweat and makeup of 5 deaths. With each death, the perpetrator takes the life of each person every night and leaves a unique "signature". In the second half, the story's drama gradually increases, leading to a climactic confrontation and an emotional ending.

The Soul Eater is almost a giant show joined by two people: The Soul Eater and the Wine Refiner. The play invites viewers with cultural images that are researched and invested in stories, making spaces familiar to Vietnamese people become scary and mysterious. The film also comes with a humane message in the character Phong (Hoang Ha) and the ending, when all the "werewolf players" are completely revealed.

In addition, the filmmaker invested in costume elements, including the wedding scene at the beginning of the film. The scene impresses with its dominant red tone and many details about folk culture. The group of people in the procession wear ancient costumes and five-armed shirts to meet the audience and communicate with each other. The characters wear paper masks shaped like mice - a village custom to "avoid being captured by fireflies".

Actor Hoang Ha is considered a rare bright spot in the movie "The Soul Eater" Phi Đức22:50:56 19/12/2023As soon as it was announced in November, the work received special attention thanks to the effect of the horror series and production crew - Tet in Hell Village, shown on Netflix.