thailand horror movies

i love thai horror movies. i thought at first korean horror flicks are the best but as i've watched quite a number of them they turned out boring in the long run and watching majority of them is like listening to someone talk and rant the whole time. so...me and my sister got engrossed downloading and watching thai horror movies.

there's something about their horror movies...weird...morbid...profound...for some there's a good storyline, the actors/actresses never wear any make up (i don't know, maybe it's cuz that's how their culture is or should i say they go for the natural look on the screen). i love how they end their movies..with an old (LP sounding) track reminiscent to that of the 40's or something. i find it so cool and so asian to use old melancholic tracks while the credits scrolls on the screen. the only indie film i've seen so far in the philippines who did that would be this experimental/short film by raymond red called 'kamada' topbilled by the late francis m. take for example 'dek hor' (the dorm).

this recent thai horror flick i just watched called 'the house, ' it also ended with a poignant song with a triphop vibe to it (take this, triphop in thai vernacular). i don't know, but thai makes triphop quite eerier than the genre is already known for. i want make a quick review of the recent thai horror movies i just watched this week. tomorrow or should i say later on i'll check out this japanese horror movie called 'rafuto.'

THE HOUSE

the story evolved around this lady reporter who was assigned to do a feature story about a doctor who was jailed for murdering and dissecting his wife. yeah how gruesome. to make the long story short, all the dwellers of the said house were all known for killing their wives except for shalinee (the reporter & main character in the movie), she killed her husband and later on found that everything she sees was all in her mind and the villain was not actually her husband but her. the twist was unexpected and quite not supported. when her husband found her lying on the house while video taping the so called haunted house, she saw on the video (which was left switched on when she fainted) how this dark forces inhabiting the house devoured her husband. the question that i have on my mind is if he was the one who was possessed then how come shalinee was the who's demented? well...call it thai horror :)

4BHIA

i don't know why they called it 4bhia at first because it's read as four-bhia nor 'pho' (i thought maybe it's cuz the letter 'r' is not very used in thailand's dialect) but then as i watched the movie i realized it's because the movie was devided into four different stories (ala shake, rattle & roll).

part 1 - Ngao/Loneliness

a girl who was involved in a tragic cab accident was forced to stay home alone with her legs on cast for months one night when her avenging bf's spirit visited her. tragically, she fell off her apartments veranda.

part 2 - Yan Sang Tai/Deadly Charm

a gang of highschool kids killed their boy schoolmate when he unintentionally found weed on their stuff and when the school authorities learned about it had the gang suspended thus they did their revenge on the poor boy. the poor kid then cast a spell on his highschool foes and the spell tragically got all the gang members killed.

part 3 - Kon Klang /in the middle

a group of young college boys had camping and shared ghost stories one night in their tent. one of then cracked a joke and mentioned if he dies he will pay whoever is the guy who sleeps in the middle a visit. one tragic kayaking and one of the boys name 'ae' drowned. apparently, they were never able to recover his body. to make the story short, he died and paid his friends a visit, the rest of his friends found something weird about him and began having second thoughts if he's really alive. ~the twist in the story? they found out in the end that they all drowned and that their pal was only trying to tell them all that they all died after the kayakking incident.

part 4 - Teaw Bin 244/Flight 244/the last flight

flight attendant Pim, goes aboard an airliner on a charter flight for the Princess of Khurkistan. interesting...a royal couple once spent their honeymoon in phuket and took flight 224 after a year the princess/wife came back and took the same charter plane and requested for same staff who assisted her and his husband the first time they went to phuket.

i was able to figure out early in the movie that pim, the flight attendant had an affair with the princess' husband and she's even wearing the same ring that the princess was wearing during the flight. it's not surprising that the princess already knew pim even during the onset of the story because of her catty looks and bitch treatment towards her (she spilled her hot coffee and was too bossy and all). yadda..yadda..the princess died because she ate this food intended for pim and the rest of the airline staff. she died of allergy and complications since the princess was allergic to shrimp but insisted to eat other food excep for what's on the 'royal menu.' the princess haunted and killed pim in short. another avenging ghost.

what's the common denominator? blood, lots of it and characters falling off the building. but overall, it was an eccentric horror movie. that's why would love to see more of thai horror flicks. classic.

well, one of unusual days...it's payday saturday. i had groceries and cleaned our flat as usual, did the laundry...and my favorite...i ordered pizza for me and my sister. i decided to order yellow cab's 4 season pizza. it rocked. a combination of roast beef, shrimp, cheese and pepperoni.

i love it when the fridge is full. i bought a lot of sodas, apples for me (i read that apple is good for dieters since t contains pectin which has the ability to burn fat), wheat pandesal, black coffee and red tea. hah! i get a lo from reading articles online. it's just that diet foods are quite costly but i'd rather eat healthy although costly diet foods.

before i forgot, today is EARTH HOUR. so...i will join the rest of the world and switch our lights off at exactly 8:30-9:30 in the evening. let's do mother earth a favor even just for one day. a conscious effort to save our planet. let's do our share as much as we could...it won't hurt.

by the way, my sister bought this 2 piece japanese inspired ceramic mug from the japanese store. it's really cute so i'll share a photo of it here...

movies etc

i used my VL pass today (a leave granted to employees who has not accrued any absences nor tardiness. it can be used anytime as long as there's a slot available and it won't be deducted towards you leave credits).

it's been months since i last took my vacation leave, that last time was way back november last year and since then i have not had my vacation afterwards. work is not so toxic lately, it's just that i need a breather. just for a day is fine with me. i just need not think about work even just for a day. i'm not exhausted, i just need to veer away from the confides of the office. payday is friday but  i'd rather be home than go out and buy things that are not really needed. anyways, i was busy with this blog last night after watching 'the unborn.' i love the dvd rip i got care of torrent, the copy was very good. the movie itself? it was ok although it did not scare me. it was boring honestly.

i watched this tagalog flick you changed my life and yeah it was cheesy lol.

i've been glued to this computer since this morning whilst multi tasking doing the laundry, mopping the floor and changing the curtains. i hate summer. i get so easily freaked out whenever the temperature rockets to 30ºC. i wish i could stay inside the fridge.  summer makes me sick and i'm just not the person who loves sunny weather and all. i retreat to cold places during this season.

weekend bluezZz 2

nothing feels like weekend. i'm home to my parents house and my mother just recently adopted two kittens! a neighbor gave them to her instead of leaving them somewhere. we have not come up with names for them yet but i think they're still looking for their momma...poor kits (as in kids for kittens). since we have three little dogs in the house, to avoid mayhem, the two fellas now lives in this little room in the house which used to be the stockroom. but hey, they have their own sink there since that room has spare sink and t&b. my mom just left a rug for their makeshift bed. today, my sister and i gave them their first bath since they stink big time man! we shampooed them and covered them with an old towel first then allowed them to air dry lol. they were shivering but what the heck it's summer anyways, they're gonna love it later on i bet. i love time away from work. it's such a different world outside the confides of the office. i miss the greeneries and the silence. 

sound trippin'

i tried rummaging through our old cd collection and right now our wmp is playing Paramita's 'Tala' album which my sister bought way back december of 2005. My ears missed their music. Music will just take you years back.

shrinking sunday

just a rundown. last thursday, my sister and i went to one of globe's business centers and bought this usb modem called 'tattoo' (formerly known as globe visibility). their prepaid kit is cheaper compared to smartbro's wireless usb: globe tattoo cost P1,895 whilst smartbro prepaid was P1,995. 

i don't really need that usb modem that much since we have stable broadband subscription in our flat, we just bought it for the purpose of travelling.  as expected, the speed was slow and will definitely eat up your time waiting to connect to the internet. 

watching randy jackson presents: america's best dance crew  and i love JABBAWOCKIES.

tooth fairy...

i was almost 20 minutes late with my early morning appointment with the dentist today. i said t'was due to the traffic while truth of the matter was, i left 15 minutes before 10:30am lol. i shelled out P1,650 just for oral prophylaxis and permanent filling. what did my dental card cover?consultation, no more, no less. it took like two and a half hours and i was glad my jaw pain does not have anything to do with my suspected aching tooth. i had it x-rayed and it turned out well. the dentist said my 3rd molar (whatever that it) was actually cute. at the back of my mind how can you find a tooth cute? well, that's why she's a dentist. she must've love teeth. i found that my teeth were ok, the x-ray showed my teeth grew well, not crooked down to its roots. the x-ray hurt a bit but t'was alright. i've experienced more pain than that. but of course let's not forget the fact that a tooth extraction hurts more than a tattoo. the dentist told me my jaw hurts possibly due to TMD, i thought so as i've written previously on this blog. my teeth felt clean after the whole prophylaxis thing. it's been a while since i last visited the dentist. it's not really due to lack of time but it's more of unwillingness on my part. i was just too lazy that's all.

i watched 'confessions of a shopaholic' last night. i enjoyed it. shopping is really addicting that's why i make it a point not to touch my credit card one of these days and might as well use cash than swipe my card. i still have control over my spending although it's really true, boredom lead people to shop compulsively.

i also watched 'across the universe' today and found it boring. i hate musicals. i thought it was a cool flick but i was wrong. it bored the hell out of me. the movie is better off releasing an OST. I love The Beatles though.

i picked up this little container for P88 from the Japanese Store, it's for the cereal and granulated sugar. i just found it cute since it's able to contain two stuff at the same time and has two separate lids or should i say cover. i also got this pack of 5 yellow smileys/magnets also for P88 (although i found it expensive for such item) but heck all items there cost from P60 - P88 regardless. you think it's cheap? no i don't think so.