THE EVIL INSIDE

Joan Chen (The Last Emperor) makes her Taiwan starring debut in a psychological thriller inspired by one of Taiwan’s most shocking true events.

In her first Taiwanese feature, award-winning actress Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Dìdi) teams with the acclaimed genre director Lingo Hsieh for The Evil Inside, a chilling thriller inspired by true events in Taiwan.
Once a beloved showbiz icon, Ho Jen-jen, known to fans as Golden Phoenix, vanished after a gambling addiction drove her into crushing debt. Years later, she awakens in a sinister nursing home, where a calm facade conceals a brutal secret: “Death Bet,” a grotesque game in which the remaining lifespans of terminal patients are wagered away.
Determined to escape and reunite with the daughter she once abandoned, Jen-jen is forced into a terrifying reckoning. But the deeper she goes, the more she realizes the true horror is not the game itself, but the devastating past that still haunts her as a mother.