Video Movie Review: HAUNTED MOUNTAINS: THE YELLOW TABOO (2025): Patient Folklore Horror Rewards Atmosphere More Than Urgency

Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo (2025) movie review, Fantasia Film Festival Taiwanese folk horror explained, and critical analysis.

Directed by Chia-Ying Tsai. Starring Jasper Liu, Angela Yuen, Yu-Ning Tsao, and Spark Chen.

Plot Synopsis:

“Chia Ming and Yu Hsin are a young couple whose hiking trip into Taiwan’s misty mountains turns terrifying when Yu Hsin repeatedly dies and Chia Ming becomes trapped in a time loop, forced to relive her death again and again. As a mountain legend involving a yellow-raincoat spirit comes into focus, the film blends romance, grief, folklore, and supernatural horror into a haunting story about memory, loss, and unresolved wounds.”

What This Review Covers:

• Chia-Ying Tsai’s atmospheric use of Taiwanese folklore and mountain mythology
• Jasper Liu and Angela Yuen’s performances as a couple trapped by grief and supernatural repetition
• The film’s time-loop structure, ghost-story elements, and emotional horror themes
• How Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo uses fog, landscape, and myth to create unease