Phi Phong: The Blood Demon (Phí Phông: Quỷ Máu Rừng Thiêng) takes a genuinely weird piece of northern Vietnamese mountain folklore and builds the whole movie around it. Instead of just doing another generic vampire story, director Đỗ Quốc Trung drops the legend of the Phí Phông – a blood-feeding entity said to live undetected among ordinary people while draining their blood and vital energy – straight into a remote mountain community where everyone already knows the old stories.
The plot follows two apprentice shamans, brothers Còn (Kiều Minh Tuấn) and Dương (Đoàn Minh Anh), who head up into the mountains after their mother gets struck down by a nasty curse. When they reach an isolated village dealing with a string of gruesome deaths, suspicion quickly lands on Mon (Diệp Bảo Ngọc) and her daughter Lua (Nina Nutthacha Padovan), whose strange behaviour matches the old warnings about the Phí Phông – though the deeper the brothers dig into the forest, the clearer it becomes that the locals are hiding ugly secrets of their own.
Making Còn and Dương apprentice shamans instead of know-it-all demon hunters is a smart choice too. They know enough about spiritual rituals to realise how much trouble they’re in, yet they’re still completely out of their depth – which is way more tense than watching some invincible expert explain every rule of how to kill the monster. Plus, having a creature that looks completely human means anyone standing in the room could be the threat, giving the whole thing a paranoid edge alongside the folk-horror mystery.
Veteran actors NSƯT Hạnh Thuý and NSND Bùi Bài Bình also appear in the cast, backed by Bluebells Studios and distributed by CJ HK Entertainment. It opened in Vietnamese cinemas on 24 April 2026 with around a two-hour runtime.
Phí Phông: Quỷ Máu Rừng Thiêng on IMDb.
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