Since the trailer was revealed, Cam has attracted a lot of attention from the audience from the cast as well as the terrifying behind-the-scenes images. The film crew about the horror version of Tam Cam released the first behind-the-scenes video, revealing the journey to find diverse versions of Tam Cam to create a new horror version to treat Vietnamese audiences in the near future. Thereby, the producer of "Con Cam" officially announced the new name of the project as "Cam" and revealed the expected release date of September 27, 2024.
Folklore material is renewed with "horror"
Talking about the film project "Cam", director Tran Huu Tan said: "In addition to being one of the stories with the most variations in the world, the Vietnamese version of Tam Cam also contains many details that are very potential for a horror version, which is our first great inspiration as storytellers. We have all heard more or less about the details of revenge: washing hair, removing shrimp, chopping areca nuts, making fish sauce... in most versions but have not had the opportunity to depict more deeply the story, personality and the events that drove the events to happen."
If you are too familiar with the story of Tam Cam told in the film version of Ngo Thanh Van, then you will surely be surprised with the haunting horror version of "Con Cam".
To make "Cam" not just a simple work retelling the story of Tam Cam, director Tran Huu Tan and the crew of producer Hoang Quan aim to exploit the dark, mysterious corners and bring a unique horror experience to the audience, especially the young audience, through careful investment in the system of characters, a horror world imbued with Vietnamese culture with an impressive setting and a cast with convincing acting.
In the newly revealed poster and trailer, the audience can easily see and pay most attention to the deformed appearance, distorted facial features of the character Cam, and the horrifying magical details.
As a cinematic version of the fairy tale “Tam Cam”, the movie “Cam” still retains the classic details that make the audience’s heart skip a beat. With Tam and Cam, there must be a shoe fitting ceremony and the shape of the shoe. The golden shoe with the oriole motif - a symbol associated with Tam in the fairy tale version, the love object of the prince and Tam, appears once again, but in a dark and creepy context. The image of a bloody foot trying to fit into the shoe makes the audience shudder. Is this a drama behind the splendid beauty of the royal palace?
The love charm that once sealed a good relationship has now become a "horrible obsession" for viewers.
In contrast to the rustic and authentic beauty of the countryside at the beginning of the trailer, the story in Huong village suddenly became creepy after the Tam Cam sisters called out "bong bong bang bang". Everything that happened to the village and a series of incidents that came to the village chief's house were all monstrous and cruel, far from what people remember about the Tam Cam fairy tale.
From the first frames, the unusual deformity of Cam (Lam Thanh My) is also revealed to be the source of the entire tragedy of the village chief Hai Hoang's (Quoc Cuong) family. For Mr. Ca Huong (Mai The Hiep) - Tam Cam's grandfather, he is the disgrace of the whole family.
In addition, the most obvious new point is the relationship between Tam and Cam, who do not confront each other but love each other very much. The beautiful and kind Tam (Rima Thanh Vy) is always close to and protects her self-conscious younger sister Cam, who often has to cover half of her deformed face to avoid gossip.
The goby well, the rice grain, the custard apple... every detail in the fairy tale Tam Cam is strangely recreated in the film. The stepmother, with a gentle appearance, hides sinister plots. The biological father, who used to be the pillar of the family, has now become a victim of dark forces. And what happened in the virgin sacrifice that made Mr. Hai Hoang, a prestigious person in the village, participate? All of these questions are waiting for the audience to discover.
The production crew also revealed the day the stepmother gave birth to a child that was cursed. The day Cam was born was also the time that signaled a series of disasters like dark clouds gradually approaching. In addition, a series of strange details such as the devil's claws, the red-faced devil with three eyes, Cam's face suddenly covered in blood, the skinned corpse, the bloody hands holding a ball of rice with maggots, the sacrificial altar offering to the girl... show the level of horror and darkness of the film version based on Vietnamese folklore.
Different from the story recreated in Tam Cam The Untold Story by director Ngo Thanh Van years ago, Con Cam will be a haunting horror version with the familiar "bong bong bang bang" song.
To bring a quality experience, investing in finding the setting is equally important. Director Tran Huu Tan and his crew have found new settings that tell a story, suitable for the film's mysterious nature and increase its uniqueness and appeal to the audience. Therefore, in the journey to find the setting, the Cam crew chose the main setting to film in Quang Tri to bring cinematic footage for the first time to this land, a place blessed with many new and strange natural beauties, extremely suitable for the horror, fantasy and ancient style of "Cam".
"Cam" is a film project produced by the crew of "Tet in Hell Village" and "Soul Eater", directed by Tran Huu Tan and producer Hoang Quan. "Cam" is a bloody horror version of the famous fairy tale Tam Cam, scheduled to premiere on September 27, 2024.
