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Just what I expected

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The maid is about a young girl who is staying with a family to help out with certain chores and such. The Lunar seventh month is here, and that means that the ghosts that get the people who are not doing the proper traditions.This is a pretty good movie, unlike a lot of oriental horror films, it didn't have a lot of the weird girl with the long black hair coloring her face. It sort a more American feel to it. Lots of surprises, lots of ghosts, and a lot of running away from them. However, the movie works,and has some nice twists. The acting is pretty good, and the setting and location was nicely done. Pretty good movie. I rate it 6/10. (my rating)rated PG-13 for intense violence/terror and disturbing images, and some sexual content

"Every year, for thirty days during the lunar seventh month, the Chinese believe that the gates of hell are thrown open. Vengeful spirits or hungry ghosts wander among the living, seeking revenge and justice before the gates of hell are closed again for another year." The eighteen years old Rosa Dimaano (Alessandra de Rossi) arrives in Singapore from Philippines to give support to her family working as a maid in the house of the artists of a Chinese opera troupe Mr. and Mrs. Teo (Huifang Hong & Shucheng Chen) on the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. She is welcomed by the family and introduced to their friends and their retarded son Ah-Soon (Benny Soh). Later, Mrs. Teo advises her about their beliefs and how the dead should be respected and honored along the seventh month. However, Rosa sweeps their offer on the sidewalk breaking a basic rule and offending the spirits, and she is haunted by ghosts everywhere. When Ah-Soon calls her Esther Santos and she finds some belongings of the unknown Esther in the house, she discloses a dark and scary secret about the past of her masters."The Maid" is an original, scary and very-well constructed ghost story based on a Chinese superstition. The screenplay introduces with an explanation about the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and Mrs. Teo explains the rules to be accomplished to Rosa, giving the big picture about the theme to the viewers like me that are not familiarized with this tradition. I startled many times with the creepy ghosts, and the scene when Rosa is watching the presentation of the troupe sat in the middle of the spirits is really frightening. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "O Sétimo Mês" ("The Seventh Month")

I liked the premise and from what I read on the box it sounded like it would be interesting, and I love a good ghost story. However, I was a bit disappointed by this movie. Not entirely mind you, it had a rather good cast and there was some good ghost moments. Still it was so thoroughly predictable...anyone who has seen say "The Sixth Sense" or "A Tale of Two Sisters" will have no problem with the shocking ending seen here. Other than it might be a bit more graphic than those two movies. The movie of a Phillipine girl who goes to work as a maid for a Singapore couple and starts her job during the time of the year when the locals must observe many customs relating to the dead or experience their wrath. Lots of burning paper and other very nice visuals during this part of the film. The job is quite easy from what I see too as the gal who was hired as a maid only does a little of this and that and when she does try to sweep up she gets in trouble with her employer. At least this gives or gal plenty of time to look after her employer's mildly retarded son and see all sorts of creepy stuff. My favorite was the play where she sat in the front row. So all in all a typical ghost flick with nothing really new to add to the mix except for a mysterious girl who dies by leaping from a food court. Didn't quite understand that one. So if you like this type of movie you may think it is an okay flick if you are looking for something new, this is not it.

The Maid is one of the few Singapore horror film to be made, which somehow, follows the footstep of the previous Singapore horror, Return to Pontianak, which is a box office flop accompanied with tonnes of bad reviews.The movie is surprisingly, a hit in Singapore. Opened on the 14th of July in the Chinese lunar calender, The Maid surrounds a maid's survival of the Seventh Month in the Chinese lunar calender, which is also known as the Hungry Ghost festival. It seems that young director Kelvin Tong, who previously brought us Eating Air, a wild comedy of Singapore street punks, is bringing us a different kind of his touch with The Maid. Featuring Chen Shu Cheng and Hong Hui Fang, the well known Singapore veteran actor, together with Alessandra De Rossi, the Phillippine actress, it is about Rosa, a Phillippine girl, who was employed as a maid by old Mr and Mrs Teo. Both Mr and Mrs Teo lives in Singapore and they are Chinese opera performers. Rosa arrived Singapore on the 1st day of the Seventh month, and she broke several taboos set by the old Chinese on the Seventh Month.She ends up seeing ghost in the end. Not one, not two, but plenty. Including the people living around her.Worst still, her brother living back in Phillippines, desperately need money for treatment on illness due to poverty. To ensure that she gets her pay, she must survived thru the Seventh Month.However, from there onwards, it seems that the show is a mixture of horror and suspense from Hitchcock's previous works. When Rosa saw ghosts around her, it creates a tension atmosphere in the air. Instead of having ghosts roaming around the streets, the ghosts are staring at Rosa, giving her 'Why are you doing this to me?' look. And the rather illogical storyline makes up part of the suspense. Instead of working as a maid for the Teo's, Rosa seems to have plenty of free time looking around the house she works for. Instead of doing household chores, she opens up every single door to look for the ghost, who has been haunting her since Day 1. Instead of horror, it created Hitchcock's suspense.And when Rosa discovered that Mr and Mrs Teo is a pair of psychos, it creates a feeling of having a pair of Mr and Mrs Hannibal Lecter controlling a helpless victim. This gives a touch of murderous atmosphere in the movie, which somehow, doesn't really seems to match with the genre and the title of the movie.The movie, however, did a great job on adding horror in the film. You see ghosts who wears a red cheongsam and a red scarf over her head, just like the corpse bride. But i am not selling the upcoming Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's The Corpse Bride over here. It has nothing to do with the animation following the style of the duo's old film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. More rather, we have ghosts who has the look of Japanese horror, with the ghost from the Japanese horror, One Missed Call 2 aka Red Candy as the best example. The main ghost in The Maid looks like the ghost in Red Candy, and that's all i could say.Alessandra De Rossi brought out the fear a woman in a foreign land faces. Her helplessness and fear in The Maid brought out the helplessness and fear most Philippino maids who worked in foreign land had.As for Chen Shu Cheng, he gives Singaporean audience a new look on playing the role of Mr Teo, who was a psycho beneath the skin. It leaves a more lasting impression of a heartless creature, compared to Hong Hui Fang, who was also a psycho beneath the skin. Though Hong played psychotic roles in her local drama series career, The Maid leaves a more lasting impression, compared to her drama series, but not that much memorable than Chen.In all, there are rooms for improvements for The Maid, but it seems that Singapore are catching up with their standard of movies.