Nguyen Thanh Nam, known to audiences as Pom Nguyen, is the director of Quy Nhap Trang, a horror diptych that has reshaped the Vietnamese box office. A contemplative storyteller, Pom Nguyen bears the weight of a guardian, committed to preserving the fading folk spirits that have haunted and comforted Vietnamese culture. For Pom Nguyen, the visionary director behind Quy Nhap Trang (The Corpse), the most daunting specter is not the supernatural entity on screen but the crushing weight of audience expectations and the shadow of his own prior success. When fear becomes a universe “To understand Quy Nhap Trang, one must first grasp the spirit of AIF,” Pom Nguyen explains. In collaboration with producer Doan Nhat Trung, the chief of AIF, and a dedicated writing team, he is building an ambitious mythology titled Linh Vi Ngu Hanh (The Five Elements Spiritual Universe). Far more than a film series, it is a crafted world governed by the immutable laws of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Quy Nhap Trang serves as the entry point for the Metal element, following the Water-aligned film Ma Da. The titular spirit (the “possessed corpse”) is a terror embedded in the Vietnamese psyche, born of oral […]