The Housemaid

About The Housemaid

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.

The Housemaid is a 2016 horror romance film directed by Derek Nguyen. Released in September 2016, it runs 105 minutes.

Its themes are orphan, plantation, vengeful ghost, and housemaid.

Nhung Kate stars as Linh, Jean-Michel Richaud as Captain Sebastien Laurent, Kim Xuân as Mrs. Han, and Svitlana Kovalenko as Madame Camille. The screenplay is by Derek Nguyen. In the United States it streams on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Philo, and Shudder.

Indochine, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The House with a Clock in Its Walls make useful companions to The Housemaid, all filed under 1950s and indochina.