Vietnam-based Skyline Media has acquired worldwide sales rights to “The 10th House,” a folk horror feature from ProductionQ, with the title set to be introduced to buyers at the Cannes Film Market.
The pre-production project is the latest from director-producer duo Tran Huu Tan and Hoang Quan. Drawing on a little-explored strand of Vietnamese folk belief – in which house builders are said to conceal hidden spells within the structure of buildings – the film follows a young man who begins recording unsettling incidents in his home after his father’s unexplained death, only to uncover a forbidden ritual connecting the property to a widening chain of violent supernatural events.
The deal builds on a sustained commercial run for both companies. “Vietnamese Horror Story” topped the Vietnamese box office in 2022 as the year’s highest-grossing horror title, breaking opening-day and presale records before travelling across 45-plus countries and territories and screening at France’s Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival. “The Soul Reaper” followed in 2023, surpassing its predecessor to become the biggest Vietnamese horror release the genre had produced up to that point, before being picked up by Netflix for Southeast Asian distribution. “The Sisters” earned a selection in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Limelight section, sold to more than 12 territories, and stands as the top-earning Vietnamese period horror title on record.
“The 10th House” arrives in a market that has shown consistent appetite for Asian found footage horror, a wave that includes Taiwan’s “Incantation,” the Thailand-South Korea co-production “The Medium,” and South Korea’s “Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum.”
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