Asian Fear Fest to Thrill Viewers This October

(Hong Kong, 27 September 2012) - The Hungry Ghost Festival in Asia may have just ended but the terror continues to reign on our TV screens as Thrill, Asia's first and only movie channel dedicated to the widely popular horror, thriller and suspense genres, presents eight tales of horror from across the region in the channel’s first Asian Fear Fest.

Featuring films from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, Asian Fear Fest presents masterfully told thriller, horror, and suspense stories guaranteed to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. The festival plays every Friday and Saturday night at 9pm (8pm JKT/TH) on Thrill during the month of October.

“Thrill has always provided fans of horror, suspense and thrillers in Asia with the best of the genre. With our first Asia Fear Fest, we would like to showcase lesser-known titles from Asia, which are just as thrilling, to audiences on a pan-regional level. At Thrill, we believe ‘fear is fun’ and these tales of terror will definitely scare and entertain our fans at the same time,” said Ofanny Choi Executive Vice President, TV Networks, Celestial Tiger Entertainment.

The repertoire of films viewers can look forward to include, Tormented, a Japanese horror flick directed by Takashi Shimizu, the first Japanese director to top the U.S. box office in 2004 with his film The Grudge; The Road, a Filipino psychological horror that gained positive reviews and was the first Filipino film to have a mainstream release in the United States; Ab-normal Beauty, a creepy movie about an art student obsessed with death from director Oxide Pang of the famous Pang brothers; Fragrant Night Vampire 1 & 2based on the terrifying urban legend of the Pontianak spirit from acclaimed Malaysian director Shuhaimi Baba; Nightmare, a thriller from Hong Kong about a man haunted by a female ghost connected to a murder he witnessed;  Evil Spirit: VIY, a trio of spine-tingling short stories from Korean director Jin Sung Park; and finally Ghost On Air, about a Singaporean radio DJ, who loves to tell ghost stories and begins to experience hauntings similar to his eerie tales.

Beyond movies, this October, Thrill will also premiere, first and exclusively, the mysterious Japanese drama Sacred Monsters’. Starring acclaimed actress Miki Nakatani (Jin 1 &2), and up-and-coming idols Omasa Aya (Buzzer Beat) and Hasegawa Hiroki (Boss), the series centres around a mysterious birth at a hospital by an anonymous pregnant woman on a stormy night. The young doctor who performed the delivery manages to save the baby, but not the mother. Unbeknownst to the young doctor, the situation links to a dark past involving a strange miscarriage, a distraught sister, and a crumbling marriage. Two episodes of Sacred Monsters will air back-to-back every Thursday from 10pm to 12pm (HK,SG,PH)/ 9pm to 11pm (JKT/TH) starting October 25.  


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About Celestial Tiger Entertainment

CELESTIAL TIGER ENTERTAINMENT (CTE) is a diversified media company dedicated to entertaining audiences in Asia and beyond. The company focuses on the operation of branded pay television channels, content creation and content distribution targeted at Asian consumers.

CTE operates a powerful bouquet of distinct pay television channels including: CELESTIAL MOVIES, the most broadly distributed 24-hour Chinese and Asian movies channel in the world; CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES, the gateway to an unparalleled array of Chinese movie masterpieces; CELESTIAL MOVIES ON DEMAND, Celestial’s subscription Video On Demand service; KIX, the ultimate in action entertainment; Thrill, Asia's only horror and suspense movie channel; and KIX HD, featuring the best of action with a late-night dose of thrillers in high definition.

As one of Asia’s largest vertically integrated independent entertainment companies, CTE produces original content which complements its channels business. CTE is also the exclusive sales agent for Hollywood studio Lionsgate in Greater China and Southeast Asia, and represents Lionsgate’s television content and vast feature film library in Japan and Korea as well.

Headquartered in Hong Kong, CTE is a joint venture among Saban Capital Group, a leading private investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment and communications industries; Celestial Pictures, a major Asian entertainment company wholly-owned by Astro, the owner and operator of the leading DTH platform in Malaysia; and Lionsgate, the world’s largest independent filmed entertainment studio.