When a team of misfit scientists enlist the aid of a Canadian photographer to photograph a ghost living in a Taipei apartment house, all manner of creepiness takes flight. Inside a small room they find the photographer dead and, with the aid of a device known as the Menger Sponge, capture the spirit of the young ghost within the room. Directed by Chao-bin Su, Silk stars Yosuke Eguchi (as the crippled scientist-inventor of the Menger Sponge, Hashimoto) and Chen Chang (as Detective Tung, the lipreading specialist brought in to read the silent lips of the boy ghost). What ensues is a tight thriller/horror married to a philosophic tome on the hereafter as Tung discovers the truth of the young boy's murder at the hands of his mother and the silken threads of afterlife that connect the living with the dead. Silk is an exceptionally thought-provoking film that succeeds thanks largely to the fine acting of Chen Chang and Su's fine direction. Ease back under the covers on a dark night and be prepared to be creeped out.
My rating 8 out of 10.
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