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A young woman is brutally murdered in a small
village in Thailand. The police have two main
suspects but they have no proof against them.
Mali, the young woman, was known for being
flirty and having sex with the attractive males
in the area. Therefore, many men in the village
are now afraid that she will come after them
as a ghost. And they have no idea how right
they are to be afraid.
Thailand have recently started producing quite
a few horrormovies. Unfortunately, most of them
are very bad. When I found out that this wasn't
even shown at theatres in Thailand, but actually
went straight to video, I grew sceptical quickly.
I guess I was right to do that. This is just
another poor ghost story that can just barely
be called a horrormovie. There's nothing scary
about it and just like many other Thai "horror"
movies, this goes more with the drama concept
than with the horror concept.
Apart from the terrible scene transfers, the
directing looks pretty good. The scene transfers
are as I said, abysmal though. It's like the
scenes just stop in the middle of the scene
and then continues on somewhere else in the
movie, making it look like the DVD is filled
with glitches, but it's still obvious that
this is the way that it was filmed. When it
comes to Asian movies, I usually have a hard
time making out whether the acting skills are
good or not. But in this movie it's pretty
obvious that the cast could have used a little
more experience.
The thing is that they really seem to have
tried to do give the movie a good story, but
it just doesn't work. The story is uninteresting
in so many ways. I didn't find anything about
it appealing. And when we get to see a coffin
shake and one of the guys scream "the coffin
is shaking", I just felt like going, "well duh!".
By this time I had already lost all hopes for
this movie. I knew that I was in for another
painful 70 minutes of sheer horror (but not in
the way that I wanted).
Now, after I had calmed myself after some
ridiculous dialogues I had actually started
to sink into the movie as I thought it got
more serious by the minute. But that opinion
died when the climax is reached and we get
to see a woman giving birth to an obviously
CGI-generated monster baby which later on
hunts a man through the woods. Oh my god.
I just hope that we will get to see better
horrormovies from Thailand in the future because
this just won't do.
Thai horrormovies are rarely filled with any
horror at all so I guess you would be chocked
if I told you that this was filled with gore.
Don't worry, it's not, it's just as dry as the
chicken bone on my plate.
The main thing that I really hated about the
movie was the soundtrack. The action scenes
had some weird soothing music playing in the
background, which made it impossible for anyone
to enjoy them to the fullest. There's also
some annoying (and happy sounding) piano music.
This was shockingly bad. SHOCKINGLY. And still
I managed to find some pleasure in it. I have
to say that I surprise myself sometimes. But
I mean, watching a CGI monster baby hunting a
man through the woods has to be somewhat
entertaining. Am I wrong? Anyway, I really
suggest that you keep this locked in the
coffin for another seven days, if not years.
Review By: AnthroFred
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