Coming Soon: Kelvin Tong's Horror Thriller RULE #1

There's nothing like cops and ghosts.

Kelvin Tong, the guy behind the horror films The Maid and 1942 and the recent horror-comedy Men In White, has become the first Singaporean director to make a feature film in Hong Kong. His upcoming cop horror-thriller, Rule #1, is set for release in Malaysia on March 13, while in Singapore, we're still uncertain of the release date, but it should be the same date as Malaysia, or even earlier.

Rule #1 is a co-production between Fortune Star Hong Kong, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, Scorpio East Pictures, Dream Movie Entertainment Overseas and Boku Films, and stars Shawn Yue, Ekin Cheng, Stephanie Che and Singapore’s Fiona Xie.

The synopsis sounds rather offbeat but interesting:

Rookie Sergeant Lee (Shawn Yue) is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious-sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong (Ekin Cheng), a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD's role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD's rule number one - there are no ghosts. For every seemingly-inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation. MAD begins investigating a string of bizarre teenage suicides; impossible suicides, unless the victims were possessed. As Lee and Wong follow the clues, they realize something sinister is heading their way.