Vengeful Heart (Vietnamese title: Qua Tim Mau) is a thriller film directed by Vietnamese-American director Victor Vu. The film was released in February 14th, 2014. Starring actress Nha Phuong, actor Thai Hoa, Quy Binh, Hoang Bach, Tu Vi, Kim Xuan, Nancy Nguyen and Van Tung.
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Directed by | Victor V? |
Produced by | Martin Nguy?n Tr?n Th? Bích Ng?c |
Screenplay by | Victor V? Ethan Tr?n ?oàn Nh?t Nam |
Based on | Vengeful Heart (play) by Thái Hòa |
Starring | Nhã Ph??ng Thái Hòa Quý Bình Hoàng Bách Tú Vi Kim Xuân Nancy Nguy?n V?n Tùng |
Music by | Christopher Wong |
Cinematography | Nguy?n K'Linh |
Edited by | Victor V? Th?ng V? Võ ?ình Hoàng |
Production company | Poseidon Media Group |
Distributed by | Galaxy Studio Early Risers Media Group |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Vietnam |
Language | Vietnamese |
Box office | 91 billion ??ng (Vietnam) |
The film was based on same title play written by Thai Hoa, which used to be a best selling play at Phu Nhuan Theater.
Screenplay
The story starts as Son takes his newly wife Linh on a vacation after her heart transplant. After the transplant, Linh keeps encountering unexplainable incidents and dreaming about a strange house located in the countryside of Da Lat. 49 days later, she sleep walks to the grave of Phuong at an isolated area, where she meets Tam who is Phuong's husband. Tam brings Linh back to his house while waiting for Son to pick Linh up after informing him, Linh comes to realize this is the house which she has kept dreaming about. Entering the house, she meets Phuong's mother - Ms. Le and Cu Hu (a friend of Phuong and Tam). Son comes to pick Linh up, in the midst of talking, it is revealed that the heart which had been transplanted for Linh is from Phuong - Ms. Le's daughter also Tam's wife. Ms. Le gets emotional, therefore she invites both of them to stay at their house to join her late daughter's 49 day ceremony.
Many weird and supernatural incidents begin to happen since they has decided to stay, Linh has more sleep walking, while Son keeps being haunted, as well as there seems to be a soul or ghost trying to warn Linh something, to the point Linh is unable to leave that house as her heart will stop beating once she does it. Finally, after being heavily haunted, Son can't take it anymore and confesses that he used to hit Phuong in middle of the street, however as rushing to the hospital, Son drove away after calling the police to inform the situation. The police named Sau Dung invites him to the police station for couple of questions. Thinking everything is coming to an end, things are getting weirder as Son claims that when he drove away, Phuong was still alive and was not injured, she was just unconscious. However, the body found by the police was heavily crushed, unable to identify, later Tam confirmed it was Phuong then took her body back home for funeral.
Cu Hu discovers that Linh's blood type to be O, therefore she couldn't be able to get transplant by Phuong whose blood type is AB. Later, Linh and Cu Hu find a funeral table with the picture of Hong - who is allegedly Tam's business partner. Right after knowing that Hong is missing, Cu Hu drives Linh to the flower farm where Tam is working night shift, Linh has intuition so she insists Tam to drive her back to the abandoned house on Ma Ta Hill, which turns out Phuong is still alive and has been locked inside for months.
Phuong tells that Hong is Tam's mistress and they had lots of debts due to their business failure. Knowing Tam wouldn't divorce Phuong (Tam truly loves Phuong) and leave her deal with all the debts alone, Hong had secretly texted and told Phuong to go to the abandoned house on Ma Ta Hill in order to know the truth about her husband. Phuong was hiding outside and heard the full story, which little did she know that Tam hit Hong with a shovel later. Phuong terrifyingly ran away while Tam was chasing her. As she was about to get close to the outskirt of the wood, Phuong got hit by Son while carelessly crossing the road, Tam hid until Son drove away, Phuong was still alive and kept warning that she would report this to the police, Tam decided to switch Phuong and Hong's clothes and locked Phuong in the basement then Tam carried barely conscious Hong to the road where Phuong got hit previously. Tam used Phuong's car to crush Hong until she was completely dead, then made false statement about Phuong was in the accident which her face was fully crushed. Actually, the heart Linh carries is from Hong. Cu Hu calls the police right away, however he is hit by Tam, while Linh is chased by Tam in the wood. As she is about to reach the outskirt, Linh suddenly falls like Phuong did, Tam intends to kill Linh but the ghost of Hong shows up to save her. Being terrified to see Hong, Tam is stunned as Hong is staring at him. The police arrive but Tam tries to escape, however gets hit by a truck.
Phuong reconciles with her mother, Linh and Son are happy together. The movie ends with the scene in which Cu Hu is taking Phuong to sight seeing on the boat, Phuong also discovers Cu Hu's unrequited love for her after a long time.
- Nhã Ph??ng as Linh
- Thái Hòa as Cu Hù
- Quý Bình as Tâm
- Hoàng Bách as S?n
- Tú Vi as Ph??ng
- Kim Xuân as Mrs. Lê
- Nancy Nguy?n as H?ng
- V?n Tùng as Mr. Sáu D?ng
- Mã Trung as Mr. Phong
- Vy Minh as Nurse
The film grossed 91 billion ??ng (US$4.3m) in Vietnam. It's the highest-grossing Vietnamese film in 2014.