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A Place Called Silence

2024 · 104 min

A slow-building, uneasy thriller that keeps you tense with a quiet sense of dread and a mother's desperate search.

Directed by
Sam Quah
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Overview
Three students from Jing Mu Girls’ Middle School go missing and turn up dead. Xiao Tong, a special education student with speech impairment, feels like someone is watching her. During the rehearsal for the school’s foundation day event, a corpse falls from the ceiling of the auditorium, and Xiao Tong disappears in the midst of confusion. Her mother, Li Han, who has been working at the school to be close to Xiao Tong, begins her pursuit.
How it feels
Dark, tense, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Grief, mystery, isolation, trauma
Content
Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
Note
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Directed by
Sam Quah
Genres
Crime, Thriller
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror5
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
crime, thriller
Directed by
Sam Quah
Written by
Sam Quah
Starring
Jag Huang, Ivy Yin, Chang Shih, Heme Liao, Moon Lee, Chi Liang-chu, Tou Tsung-hua, Liu Yin-Shang
Music
Sing Wu
Cinematography
Zhang Ying
Runtime
104 min
Country
Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Languages
Mandarin

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