Showing posts with label 2008 Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008 Thailand. Show all posts

Thursday, April 11, 2013

The Coffin โลงต่อตาย

 Released Year: 2008
Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham

Casted by:
 Ananda Everingham as Chris
莫文蔚 Karen Mok as Zoe
连凯 Andrew Lin as Jack
 Story:
A young man, and several years later, a woman, undergo a Thai ritual of lying in a coffin, which is supposed to ensure long life and banish bad luck. The ritual is also seen as a solution to fatal genetic diseases and diseases like cancer. The man, Chris, wakes and is brought to the hospital where doctors say he suffers from hallucinations. It turns out that the hallucinations are paranormal visits by his ex-girlfriend, who dies, along with her child, just when his wife is cured. The woman on the other hand is rid of her lung cancer, however is haunted by her boyfriend, Jack, whom she was supposed to marry. The woman consults an expert in the paranormal, and later Chris, to try to solve her supernatural difficulties.
L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:
Story wise, it is good... but the movie didn't really create a peak to haunt us, so the best i can give is 7 out of 10 for this movie :(

Monday, March 4, 2013

4bia

 Released Year: 2008

Story:
 1. Loneliness
Directed by Youngyooth Thongkonthun

Casted by:
 Maneerat Kham-uan as Pin

A young woman, stuck in her apartment due to the cast on her leg, communicates with the outside world via cell phone and text messages. She complained to her boyfriend, Puak, who went on a camp trip in Chiang Mai, that she felt so lonely. Every night she exchanges text messages with a stranger, who asked to befriend her and seems friendly enough, and there’s no reason for her to read between the lines when he mentions that he is currently dwelling somewhere “cramped.” After sending the mysterious stranger her picture, she asks for one in return and is sent the same picture. When she questions him, he says he is in the picture next to her. A ghostly face is slightly visible next to her smiling face. As she researches recent deaths she discovers that the son of Princess Sophia of Virnistan died and was buried with a cellphone. She then gets a text saying that he will come to her place now. All of the lights begin to go out and the young woman cries in fear. She is then assaulted by the ghost and is thrown out of the window to her death. We are then shown a scene from the past where the prince receives a text message from his girlfriend ending the relationship which makes him walk in front of a taxi cab causing an accident, same accident that was the cause of the main character's broken leg as she was inside the cab.

 2. Deadly Charm
Directed by Paween Purikitpanya

Casted by:
 Apinya Sakuljaroensuk as Pink

A nerdy student named Ngid saw his school friends take some drugs, and he was beaten to death. One of the gang's member, Pink, was worried but failed to stop her friends from bullying Ngid. Unfortunately, when he was beaten, he cursed his friends on a deadly charm, which requires a picture of a person died with his/her eyes open. Things get worse when everything keeps moving by itself when ordered by Ngid's soul, and one by one the drug addicts start dying. Even though Pink didn't beat him, Ngid's soul decided not to spare her too because she had seen it all yet had not do anything to help him. In order to save her life, Pink pops out her own eyeballs. It was revealed later that the picture Ngid used to practice the charm is of the young woman in the first story.

 3. The Man in the Middle
Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun

Casted by:
 Pongsatorn Jongwilat as Puak

Four rafting-lovers, Aey, Ter, Shin, and Puak were rafting in a lonely jungle. At night in the camp, Aey told his friends that if he is dead, the person who slept in the middle was the next to die with him. The next day, when they were swimming in the river things get worse because Aey was drowned and wasn't found. They were scared, but decided to stay, and fight over who gets to sleep in the middle (they are frightened by Aey's story). That night, Aey came back, but strange events happening afterwards made his friends become suspicious. Shin then found Aey's body. Frightened, they went running in the woods but eventually get shocked by the twist, that they found their own bodies. The twist told them that all of them were dead, but only Aey accepted this, and the other three didn't, so Aey's soul warned them that they were drown like him. At the end, the four became ghosts together.

 4. The Last Flight
Directed by Parkpoom Wongpoon

Casted by:
 Laila Boonyasak as Pim

Flight attendant Pim is secretly having an affair with Prince Albert of Virnistan. One day she is ordered to go aboard an airliner on a charter flight for Princess Sophia, the wife of the Prince. Her fellow stewardess, Tui, was unable to attend the flight as her brother Ter had been found drown in Chiang Mai. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragic when the princess forms an allergic reaction to Pim's lunch as it contained shrimp to which the princess is allergic to. After the royal house of Khurkistan requests that her corpse be sent back immediately for cremation, Pim is required to remain on the plane and escort the body - the only passenger - for the return flight. As the Princess tries to get out of her shroud, Pim's worst nightmare began. When the plane landed, Pim's body was found laying on the floor, under the feet of the intactly enshrouded corpse of Princess Sophia.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:
All 4 stories, i love 3 of them except the 2nd one - Deadly charm. The one i prefer the most would be the 4th story, the last flight. Overall the storyline of each part is good and there's enough spooky/scary moment in each of them.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Coming Soon โปรแกรมหน้า วิญญาณอาฆาต

Released Year: 2008
Directed by Sophon Sukdapisit

Casted by:
Chantavit Dhanasevi as Shane
Worrakarn Punch Rotjanawatchra as Wane
Sakulrath Thomas as Fuhan
Story:
Shane is working as a theater projectionist who has been addicted to drugs. He stole his girlfriend's bracelet to mortgage for some money, this has cause the small couple (Shane + Wane) to be in a cold war. To get back the bracelet, Shane and Lok (Wane's brother) to bootleg a Thai horror film which has been getting a lot of hype to the gangster to get the money.

During one night when bootlegging, Shane fell asleep while Lok being attacked by something in the theater. Shane woke up the next morning and was horrified when he played back the cam-recorder which accidentally recorded what has happened. Later on, Shane was even shocked to found out that Lok appeared in the ghost movie and his eyes were dig out.

After telling this to Wane, both of them went to look for the truth. Apparently, the horror movie is based on a real legend, the crazy lady Fuhan kidnapped children in the village, grounded them and dig out their eyes. As Shane and Wane went to investigate, they found out that Fuhan is still alive and she's very old now living in a mental hospital. Then who is the ghost?

Shane & Wane realised that the crew who shoot the film has all dissapeared. They went to the production house and found the record. The sidelights of the movie showed that the real actress who acted as Fuhan was accidentally killed when the security line broke off without anyone knowing it. And now she's back, whoever watch the end of the movie will have to die.

In the end, whoever went for the movie has dissapeared...
L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:
I watched this in cinema 2 years ago and it fucking scared the shit out of me :P Love the way Sophon present this movie, the director is also the co-writer of other thai horror movie such as "Shutter" & "Alone".

Though many critics stated that the movie is kinda weak and no surprise and illogical... but i mean, come on, its a horror ghost movie, there's no logic right? The movie within a movie is so damn cool~ i never thought so... till the last moment of the movie. Re-watch the film is still makes me goosebumps.