![]() ![]() Kham-uan makes for an attractive and competent enough victim while the direction is solid without any unnecessary flourishes. The payoff is a little confusing as the reason for the girl being targeted doesn’t appear to be her fault despite a nice twist behind it. ![]() Not a particularly scary film although some of the subtleties of the antagonist’s tormenting of the girl makes for a refreshing change from the usual over exaggerated nonsense. The girl decides the guy is getting to creepy for her liking and ignores his messages which angers him. When they finally exchange photos (even though the girl has a boyfriend who is away on a camping trip, hence her loneliness) the girl receives her photo back with the message “I’m in the photo with you”, failing to spot the guy’s reflection in the shot. True to the cliché the silence is deafening, broken only by the sound of a mobile phone rattling away to announce an incoming message. ![]() The unnamed girl doesn’t witness any murders but she does begin a conversation by text with a stranger who seems to know a whole lot about the girl for someone she has never met. Interestingly two of them – Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom – are regular collaborators, their best known film being Shutter, which suffered the typical ersatz Hollywood remake.įirst story up is Loneliness ( Ngao) from Youngyooth Thongkonthun, a dialogue free tale that distantly riffs on Hitchcock’s Rear Window, in that the main protagonist, played by Maneerat Kham-uan, is housebound with a broken leg. ![]() This portmanteau film brings together four Thai directors each given a segment to tell a horror story in their own individual style. Youngyooth Thongkonthun, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom & Paween Purijitpanya ![]()
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