Rebecca Lim has every reason to be afraid of becoming a mum — on screen, that is.

In Kelvin Tong’s supernatural thriller Confinement, Lim plays a first-time mother who hires a confinement nanny (Cynthia Koh) to look after them for a month.

“For one month, no leaving the house,” the nanny tells her client sternly in the just-released 42-sec teaser. “No visitors. No other food other than what I prepare for you.”

Lim replies: “Confinement sounds like imprisonment.” (Or life under lockdown — remember that time?)

And you know the rest. She starts seeing shadowy figures around the house. Are they real or is parenting pressure driving her bonkers?

Either way, she screams a lot. 

Deadly silence: Can you trust Cynthia Koh? 

This looks like the perfect movie to watch during the Hungry Ghost Festival, but it’s coming out on Oct 19 instead, one week after The Exorcist: Believer and one week before Saw X — that’s Saw Part 10, not Saw (formerly Twitter). Yes, heavy hitters.

Are Confinement's old-school PG13 scares strong enough to stave off competition from Hollywood's Halloween line-up? We’ll see.  

Watch the trailer here:

Photos: GV Pictures, Clover Films