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An accomplished painter hires a confinement nanny after giving birth, but inexplicable incidents soon start happening around her home and to her baby.

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00:00 [Music]

00:09 I'm Kelvin Tong, the director and screenwriter of the film

00:13 Confinement 陪月

00:14 The title Confinement, I think it works on two levels

00:18 Both the English and the Mandarin title

00:20 We know 陪月 means confinement nanny coming to help a new mother for one month

00:24 But 陪月 also means literally 有一个人在陪你

00:28 But 那个人是谁

00:29 It also calls out another layer of tension

00:31 That's the meaning behind both the English and Mandarin titles of the film

00:34 Idea for Confinement first came about seven years ago

00:37 When I had my first daughter, just me and my wife

00:40 We realised we needed help

00:42 So we got ourselves a confinement nanny

00:44 You're a bit nervous because you don't really know this person

00:47 From then I started thinking about making horror films

00:50 Centred around the arrival of a confinement nanny

00:53 You look at the door now

00:54 Get away from the door as quickly as possible

00:57 My first horror film called The Maid

00:59 In this case, in confinement, it's about a confinement nanny from Ipoh

01:04 Coming into the house of a Singaporean family

01:06 Like, you know, after I made my first horror film The Maid

01:09 A very common comment I got from people who watched it was

01:13 "You made me quite scared of my maid when I go home"

01:15 You know

01:16 Hopefully I get the same kind of comments from confinement witches

01:19 "You know, thanks to you, like me and my wife really hesitated before we employed a confinement nanny"

01:25 But I want to state here for the record

01:26 Most confinement nannies are wonderful creatures

01:29 I mean, they are helpful, they are kind

01:31 And they are really great human beings

01:33 This is a film

01:34 Of course, when we make films, we always think about the "what if"

01:38 What if the confinement nanny is not what she seems?

01:41 What if besides helping the mother, she's got plans of her own?

01:44 And what's going to happen after that?

01:47 So I thought that would be the springboard of quite an interesting psychological thriller

01:52 And let's see how fast you are at picking those up

01:55 And so it's going to be a very fun film

01:57 And I like to come on quite often

01:59 I'll try and actually see if I'm doing it right

02:02 Because you're diving in more than you're using quite often

02:05 [Music]

02:08 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Confinement | Featurette: Behind The Story

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