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MMFF Review: ‘Kampon’ and its issues with restraint

There are a lot of things that I liked about director King Palisoc’s ‘Kampon.’ It’s a cerebral horror that is unafraid to get weird and strange or even silly. It’s highly stylized with a generous use of wide-angle lenses to distort the imagery and amplified with a discordant musical score to underline its horror genre roots. It’s a complex story in a world that is rich with lore and a hidden, unexplained world that shrouds the film in mystery. What is unfortunate is that it …