The Housemaid

The Housemaid is a 2016 Vietnamese gothic romance horror film directed by Derek Nguyen and starring Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, and Rosie Fellner. Released in Vietnam on September 16, 2016, the film became the third-highest-grossing horror film in Vietnam's history and had its North American premiere at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival. Plot Set in 1953 Vietnam during the First Indochinese War, the film tells the story of an orphaned country girl named Linh, who gets hired to be a housemaid at a haunted French rubber plantation. She unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner Captain Sebastien Laurent, and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife, Camille... who is out for blood. Cast Nhung Kate as Linh Jean-Michel Richaud as Captain Sebastien Laurent Kim Xuan as Mrs. Han Rosie Fellner as Madeleine Phi Phung as Mrs. Ngo Kien An as Mr. Chau Svitlana Kovalenko as Madame Camille Linh Son Nguyen as Bao Release The film was released in Vietnam on September 16, 2016. Since then, the film has sold to 18 different territories including Australia (JBG Pictures), Turkey (Medyavizyon), Peru (Delta Films), Malaysia (Suraya Filem), and the UK (Eureka Entertainment). IFC Films released the film theatrically and on video on demand on February 16, 2018 in North America via their horror label IFC Midnight.