Asian superstars Shu Qi and Angelica Lee Sinje headline The Resurrected, Netflix’s latest Taiwanese drama series, which premiered its first two episodes at the 30th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea on September 18, ahead of its October 9 release on the streamer.

Shu and Lee play a pair of desperate mothers who band together to stage a fantastical revenge plot after their daughters fall victim to an illegal telecoms scam operating in a shady corner of Southeast Asia.

Directed by Leste Chen Cheng-tao and Hsu Chao-jen, The Resurrected combines pressing social issues with outrageous supernatural horror, two of the most popular and ubiquitous genres in Taiwanese media right now.

Read my South China Morning Post review