Is It Documentary Or Is It Fiction? Trailer Arrives For Singapore's HAUNTED CHANGI.

As the first-person horror subgenre has grown it has thrived on the intentional blurring of the lines between documentary and fiction, the style thriving on the intimacy of the documentary form. And in the case of upcoming Singaporean feature Haunted Changi those lines are even more blurred than normal.

Changi, you see, is an actual place - the Old Changi Hospital - a site once used as a POW camp complete with torture chambers and long held to be haunted by residents of Singapore. And if the materials on this film are to be believed - and when our Singapore native Stefan Shih wrote about the film back in February it appeared everyone did - the project began life as a standard documentary exploring the history and legends behind the place. And then the crew spent a couple days there and things went weird.

The official website now includes a timeline of how the original documentary project morphed into what it is now and it makes for a fascinating read. Even more fascinating when taken in context with the just released trailer. So what do you think? Fact or fiction? Is this Cropsey (real) or Blair Witch (not) or some fusion of the two? And, more importantly, how does it look as a film?