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Ting works
as a murder-re-enactment actress and is hired
to simulate the murder case of Min, a former Miss
Thailand. She's very flattered to do this as it's her
biggest job yet, but soon things start to get creepy
as Ting can feel a strange connection to Min. She
decides to investigate the murder by herself to find
out what really happened to the beauty queen.
Before you die, you hear the pling. Yep. You might
think that "The Victim" sounds like a groundbreaking
and entertaining horror movie, but it's not. This is
yet another uncreative ghost flick with a bunch of
long-haired ghost chicks jumping out from behind every
corner. It's not scary, it's not entertaining and after
an hour, I didn't really know what was going on since
I simply didn't care anymore.
The story revolves around Ting, an actress for murder
illustration who is hired to simulate the murder of
Min, a beauty pageant contestant. It takes about five
minutes before ghosts start popping up every here and
there for whatever reason. It's not just one ghost,
oh no, it seemed as if everyone who's ever died in
Thailand wanted to join in on the fun as there are
literarily ghosts everywhere - and how many ghosts
can you really see before they stop being creepy?
Either way, Ting feels a special connection to Min
and decides to investigate the murder case. You're
right, it is about as unexciting as it sounds. Ehmm
so we have ghosts popping up everywhere and a murder
mystery, now what else are we missing? Oh that's right,
the ghosts attack people at random and make their
victims look like they're rotting (just like in The
Ring) and before anyone dies, they hear this annoying
plinging sound as from a high-pitched bell. God was
that sound ever so annoying, talk about migraine-inducing.
As with most recent Asian ghost movies, this movie has
focused on ripping off two movies in particular. In
this case it's The Ring and Shutter. So what's so
horrible about this? Well first of all I hate it when
people can't come up with their own scares, and second
of all, we all ready know where we're supposed to jump
so all the scares are too obvious to actually manage
to scare us. What's funny is that this actually made
quite decent money in Thailand but personally, I think
that this looks DTV. The acting isn't very good, the
directing is average at best (this was shot by the
director of Garuda by the way) and the editing is
definitely questionable. Special effects wise I think
that anyone could have made these effects really and
the ghosts make-up is extremely poor (you can't just
slap some powder on your face and call yourself a ghost).
I actually think the poster was more expensive to make
than the main movie - but I guess that's ultimately
what counts these days.
This was ultimately an underwhelming ride to say the
least. It's sad to see that the director of killer-bird
movie Garuda has played the safe-card and made a
generic ghost movie rather than making a new creature
feature of some sort. It wasn't atrocious though and
I guess, if you've got nothing else to watch, it's
a decent way to kill time, but that's all it is. I grew
sick of it after an hour, now let's see how long you
last before you grow sick of it.
A body with a severed head, nothing much.
Wow, someone must have found the echo button in the
studio as we get echoing, howling wolves sounds (that
don't fit in at all, I don't know about Thailand but
in Sweden we don't have howling wolves running around
freely in the middle of the city), we get echoing
screams (very annoying ones as well) and we get echoing
"oo-ing" if you know what I mean. Terrible score.
Uncreative and generic ghost flick that doesn't even
try to bring anything new to the table. The plot
seems to have been made up in less than an hour and
the scares are too obvious and too many to be scary.
If you feel like sitting through a horror flick with
more ghosts than characters, be my guest, but don't
expect anything that you haven't seen before.
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