A rare occurrence at the Vietnamese box office.

In recent days, the Vietnamese box office has witnessed the simultaneous "dominance" of three horror films - namely, The Ghost, Colony: The Zombie Swarm, and The Fire Lord's Mansion.

The Fire Tower is a pure horror film with many continuous jump scares - Photo: DPCC

In recent days, the Vietnamese box office has witnessed the simultaneous "dominance" of three horror films: Colony: A Swarm of the Dead and Uncle Hoa's building . Except Colony: The Zombie Swarm , and the other two films are Vietnamese.

For many years, June has often been considered a "low point" for the Vietnamese box office, as many films released during this period fail to achieve the expected revenue.

In 2025, "The Bottom of the Lake" only grossed over 27 billion VND, while "Ten Years" stopped at just over 2.2 billion VND. Prior to that, 2024 also saw less than favorable results, with "Claws" earning over 3.8 billion VND and "The Most Beautiful Summer" around 4 billion VND. Notably, in June 2023, Vietnamese films were almost completely absent from the box office, giving way to foreign films.

3 horror films that dominated the box office.

After many days of "ceding the throne" to Ghost and Uncle Hoa's Tower Colony: A Swarm of the Undead - The South Korean horror blockbuster starring Jun Ji Hyun and Koo Kyo Hwan has risen to the top of the box office.

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Colony: A Swarm of the Undead It has grossed 57 billion VND, becoming the highest-grossing South Korean film at the Vietnamese box office in 2026.

Meanwhile, "Ma Xó ," a Vietnamese horror film released in theaters on May 5-6, is showing signs of cooling down after its initial box office surge. The film had a strong impact, consistently topping box office charts and reaching 100 billion VND in just one week of release. To date, its total revenue is over 142 billion VND.

Uncle Hoa's Tower It's one of the surprising hits at the box office recently. The film has repeatedly topped the charts, directly competing with "The Haunted House" and "Colony: The Zombies" in the revenue race. Currently, "The Fire Tower" is maintaining a stable performance, with total revenue to date exceeding 54 billion VND.

When it first came out in theaters, few could have imagined... Uncle Hoa's Tower Yet, it created such a strong impact at the box office. The film doesn't have any "box office guarantee" names in either the director or the cast.

According to the production team, "Lầu chú Hỏa" is the first Vietnamese film to utilize the found footage style. - Photo: ĐPCC

Uncle Hoa's Tower Choosing a purely horror direction, focusing on creating a sense of dread and suspense for the audience, and fully exploiting the found footage style (simulated documentary), a genre still quite new to Vietnamese cinema, where the entire event is recorded through the camera's perspective of the characters.

This was also a wise choice by the team. Uncle Hoa's Tower.

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If the film chooses a familiar approach, it may struggle to make a unique impression when competing directly with established names like... Ghost The film also explores spiritual elements and family relationships.

However, Uncle Hoa's Tower It still frustrates viewers with its somewhat illogical handling of situations, making inexplicable decisions, most notably acting alone even when facing imminent danger.

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