Detective Kien: The Headless Horror

2025 [VIETNAMESE]

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

18
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 874 874

Director

Victor Vu Photo
Victor Vu

Top cast

Ngoc Diep Photo
Ngoc Diep as Mo Hai
Dinh Ngoc Diep Photo
Dinh Ngoc Diep as Mo Hai
Sy Toàn Photo
Sy Toàn as Dong
Quoc Cuong Photo
Quoc Cuong as Nga's dad
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1.18 GB
1280*534
Vietnamese 2.0
NR
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24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 32
2.42 GB
1920*800
Vietnamese 5.1
NR
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24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 43
2.2 GB
1920*800
Vietnamese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  cz  de  es  fr  it  ja  mn  nl  pl  sv  
24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 26

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Detective Kiên: The Headless Horror

When the young "Nga" (Doan Minh Anh) goes missing, her aunt "Miss Moon" (Ngoc Diêp) can't get the local authorities to investigate, so she writes a pleading letter to renowned judge's detective "Kiên" (Tín Nguyen) to see if he will come and look into things. When he arrives, complete with his official badge of office, he sets the cat amongst the pigeons in the small community that's not without it's suspects. To add to his problems, it seems that this village has an history of troubles, with a legendary water ghost reputedly emerging from the river and terrorising the population then leaving decapitated bodies to wash up all over the place. Now "Kiên" is a man of science, and now (reluctantly) allied with his enthusiastic new sidekick they discover that nobody in this village is quite whom they seem and with the chief, his wife, his daughter, the potter, the shaman, the lover and just about every one else in the mix, he has his work cut out trying to discover the truth. Though I found the production a little bit sterile, there is still quite an amiable chemistry between our detecting duo and with plenty of lies, deceit and red herrings the story carries along nicely until a denouement that's acrobatic, messy and leaves us wanting - whether we want it or not - needing more. It hits the ground running and doesn't hang about for a couple of hours that I though had shades of "Vienna Blood" (2019) to it. Worth a watch.
Reviewed by SiriusJ-4 7 / 10

Solid thriller but some things left me perplexed...

Starting from bad: the actress Dinh Ngoc Diep who plays the role of the aunt. Her facial expressions and lines that are supposed to be comic gave me the feeling to be badly acted and out of place most of the time. In general the comical moments in the movie do not blend well with overall vibe.Another big disappointment is the paranormal element: not what I expected after seeing the trailer, and I wish it had been handled differently.On the positive side it is worth mentioning the Direction. The special effects are quite good and did not left me the feeling of being cheap of anything like that. The Storyline is solid. Some good twists and emotional moments.In the end, considering this a be a local vietnamese production, I was pleasently surprised by the general quality of it.I would rate this movie a 7- , much better than the latest Hollywood productions.A movie whort watching and 2 hours well spent in my opinion..
Reviewed by ngdinhduykhai 6 / 10

Strong logic script but too little character development

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