Fridae

This Singapore-made documentary is about the seventh month on the Chinese calendar when hungry ghosts are released from hell so they may walk among the living.

Produced by Singaporean newscaster Genevieve Woo and directed by American filmmaker Tony Kern, it is shot on a modest budget and thus lack the razzle-dazzle of more expensive productions.

But it does get the job done in telling viewers about some of the lesser-known facts of the age-old tradition. And it does have moment of real creepiness, especially when Tony and Genevieve capture unexplainable phenomenon on camera, like bursts of hot spots and malfunctioning equipment.

The whole film mostly feels like a Channel 12 documentary, and most Chinese viewers would already be familiar with 70 per cent of the information here. But the remaining 30 per cent may surprise some viewers and please supernatural junkies