Archive · 10 Nov 2025
Toonz Media Group Boards Animated Horror Film 'A Banquet For Hungry Ghosts'
Imagine a spooky movie made with animation!
A company called Toonz Media Group is helping to make a new animated horror film called 'A Banquet For the Hungry Ghosts'.
It's based on a book by a Chinese-American chef and author.
The movie tells four different scary stories, all connected by a ghost chef in a magical restaurant.
Each story is inspired by a famous Chinese food dish.
The filmmakers want to mix scary parts with fun and beautiful moments to explore themes like human weaknesses and family secrets.
This film is special because it brings Asian stories and flavors to the world of horror movies.
Toonz Media Group has joined the production of the animated horror anthology film 'A Banquet For the Hungry Ghosts'.
The film is based on a book by Chinese-American author Ying Chang Compestine and produced by Singapore's Robot Playground Media.
Directed by Ervin Han, the movie features a team of animators from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Taiwan.
It tells four interconnected tales, each inspired by a Chinese dish and centered around a spectral chef.
Producers describe the film as a blend of the macabre, playful, and poetic, exploring themes of human frailty and ancestral guilt.
- Who
- Toonz Media Group (India) and Robot Playground Media (Singapore)
- What
- Boarded 'A Banquet For the Hungry Ghosts', an animated horror anthology film.
- When
- The film will be introduced for presales at AFM.
- Where
- Thiruvananthapuram, India (Toonz Media Group HQ) and Singapore (Robot Playground Media HQ). The film will be presented at the American Film Market (AFM).
- Why
- To capitalize on the global appetite for horror with an Asian-inspired story and to promote Asian storytelling internationally.
- Studio
- Toonz Media Group
- Project Title
- A Banquet For the Hungry Ghosts
- Genre
- Animated Horror Anthology
- Runtime
- 90 minutes
- Source Material
- Book by Ying Chang Compestine
- Director
- Ervin Han
- Production Companies
- Robot Playground Media, Toonz Media Group