Detective Kien: The Headless Horror

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Detective Kien: The Headless Horror

2025

2h 11m

Drama

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Detective Kien examines a body without a head in a Vietnamese village during the Nguyen Dynasty. The case involves unusual elements. He encounters complications.

Joshua Polanski

There Were No Gods Left

Jun 12

Ugly people don’t exist in [Victor] Vu's worlds, for better and worse.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

06/03/2025

6.5

Despite the occasional shortcomings often found in large-scale productions, “Detective Kien: The Headless Horror” stands out as one of the most impressive commercial titles to emerge from Vietnam in recent years

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

05/31/2025

Detective Kien: The Headless Horror seamlessly blends a murder mystery with supernatural horror, a love triangle, and suspenseful action. There are many intriguing twists and turns in this story that takes place in 19th century Vietnam.

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Peter Martin

ScreenAnarchy

05/28/2025

An absorbing mystery that sometimes gets bloody and even occasionally gut-wrenching. ... The horror here comes from the evil that men -- and sometimes women -- are capable of inflicting upon other, usually innocent and often hapless, people.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

05/27/2025

A suspenseful, atmospheric and intriguing crime thriller.

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sricharan s

Jun 7

The plot was intriguing but the making had too much TV show vibes than a movie

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Tatiana

06/04/2025

Such an amazing movie!!!! There’s so much thriller in the movie and the jump scare we’re pretty amazing.

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Tina

06/02/2025

Phim rat la dep trai 😘

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Chima

06/02/2025

wow. thriller action , mystery. props to Vietnam

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William H

06/01/2025

Movie was a trip. A good horror/mystery. Had some funny moments and some that tug on the heart strings. And just when you think you got figured out, they throw another curve. It kind of reminded me of Knives Out.

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Ngoc

06/01/2025

Best Vietnamese movie!

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Detective Kien examines a body without a head in a Vietnamese village during the Nguyen Dynasty. The case involves unusual elements. He encounters complications.

Director: Victor Vu
Distributor: 3388 Films
Production Co: Galaxy Studio, November Films
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Vietnamese
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 2h 11m