Plot
A group of young content creators break into an abandoned colonial mansion in Ho Chi Minh City, known locally as Lầu Chú Hỏa.
The building already has a reputation tied to an old urban legend – the spirit of a woman said to appear inside the mansion at night.
What starts as a livestream exploration for views quickly turns into something uncontrollable when strange events begin happening inside the house.
Doors close on their own, voices are picked up on camera, and the group slowly realises they may have disturbed something that was never meant to be awakened.
Trailer
Key Information
- Original title: Lầu Chú Hỏa
- English title: Lau Chu Hoa: The Deadliest Mansion
- Release year: 2026
- Country: Vietnam
- Release date: 12 June 2026
- Runtime: ~94 minutes
- Genre: Horror / Mystery / Found Footage
- Language: Vietnamese
- Director: Hùng Trần
- Cast: Trần Kỳ Anh, Nguyễn Minh Thời, Ngọc Chi Bảo, Phụng Hoàng, Nguyễn Công Nương, Dũng Hà
- Production companies: RUNUP Vietnam, Hive Media Corp, RUNUP Company
- Based on: Vietnamese urban legend of the Hứa family mansion / “ghost of the white lady”
- IMDb
Style and Presentation
This is a found-footage horror film set almost entirely inside a single abandoned mansion.
Instead of traditional horror pacing, the film builds through escalating disturbances inside the house, making the environment feel more unstable the longer the group stays inside.
The mansion becomes the central threat – not just as a setting, but as something that reacts to being entered.
Cultural Context
Vietnamese horror often draws from urban legends tied to colonial-era buildings and real historical locations.
The Lầu Chú Hỏa mansion is based on a well-known Saigon landmark surrounded by ghost stories, especially the legend of a grieving woman said to appear inside the house at night.
This film continues the modern Southeast Asian trend of found-footage horror, where social media, livestream culture, and urban legends merge into a single narrative style.
The idea of “performing for an audience while something goes wrong” is a recurring theme in recent regional horror.
Notes
- Found-footage / livestream-style horror
- Based on Saigon urban legend mansion
- Single-location survival structure
- Group of streamers as main characters
- Strong focus on escalating supernatural events
- Vietnamese theatrical release: 12 June 2026
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