Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo Review: It Gets Lost In The Weeds

Fantasia 2025: Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo

Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Atmospheric and haunting, Taiwanese import Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo tackles one of Taiwan’s most legendary ghost stories in style. For the uninitiated, the urban legend of the Mountain Gremlins—an evil spirit who dons a yellow raincoat and a bamboo hat—has been passed down since the 1970s. For debut director Tsai Chia Ying, the tale becomes the launching point for an emotional story about grief. The chilling imag…

Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo Review: It Gets Lost In The Weeds

Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo easily fits into The Tag-Along universe, drawing heavy inspiration from another Taiwanese urban legend surrounding the man with a yellow raincoat. Stories typically depict this legendary being as being located in the mountains, luring people off the trail to their inevitable doom. Directed by Tsai Chia-Ying and written by Zou Wan-Zhen, The Yellow Taboo is not a simple haunting, with its endless time loop confi…