THE MAID: SHE DOESN'T DO WINDOWS

Singapore's first homegrown horror movie, THE MAID, opened in Singapore with a record-breaking US$700,000, the highest opening ever for a local film.

Telling the story of a Filipino maid who starts work in Singapore during the seventh month, when the spirits from the Seventh Hell are let loose, the pic was snagged by Fortissimo who plan on debuting it at the American Film Market in November.

And you can read about the real-life horror movie that is the fate of most foreign domestic workers (Filipino maids, almost exclusively) in Singapore here. Although cases of maid abuse have dropped, and convictions for maid abuse now earn jail time instead of a fine, the current debate raging in Singapore is whether maids should get one day off per week, or to stick with no days off per week. Average pay for a Filipino maid? About US$150/month.

Links to THE MAID trailer are here.

(Thanks to Twitch)