Horror films

Thai song makes me happy.

Dad promised me a trip to Bangkok this coming Dec,

Hopefully as he promised,

Coz I don't want Genting(!).

And the Vietnam trip is confirmed.

Haha, damn happy.

Slacked at home and watched a series of horror shows online on sat. Began the day with 第19层空间 by Gillian Chung, and the movie was a crap. It's a pyschotic game invented by a pervert, and four university girls went to play the game. And in the end, they fall into the 18 levels of hell, and almost died but didn't die at the end. Besides seeing Gillian Chung in the show, there's no attraction values to the show at all.

Next, I watched 三更2之饺子 by 杨千嬅 and 梁家辉, and the movie was just as disappointing. This sequel was way too lousy as compared with the first one on "going home". Basically, it's all about eating unborn babies and having sex and sex and sex. There's an abortion scene that was quite disgusting though. Apparently, hongkong directors are better with love stories I guess. I think that they are still afar in directing horror films as compared with the Japanese or Koreans, and to the Thai in particular.

The Maid, a local horror film was shown on Channel 8 after I finished with the two dissatisfactory movies, and I was kind of impressed by the movie starred by Alessandra de Rossi. The plot is about a maid, Rosa from Philippines that arrived to Singapore to earn money for her sickly brother, and she has to accustom herself to the custom of the Seventh Month, whereby she struggled with the supernatural forces. The maid is employed by a Teochew opera family, who give her a place to stay in their dilapidated shophouse. Little does she knows that in these thirty days of the seventh month, she will be disclosing the hidden secrets of the family, who killed a maid a year ago. I like the premise, but somehow the ending is kind of predictable. Going home with the ashes of the dead maid at the end might sound like a happy ending for Rosa, but what about her brother who was so in need of money for operation. And I think the show will reach another climax, that if, the "non existent" dead maid could come out to give us a scare here and there, instead of showing only the shadow or some scorpions. And pardon me if I'm wrong, cause I don't think we can find scorpions in singapore?!

I continued with two Thai horror movies, the Art of the Devil 2 and the Ghost Game respectively.

Art of the Devil 2 has a pretty second female lead, and is about a sexy village teacher portrayed by Napakpapha Nakprasitte, who was thought to be a flirtatious vixen and a disloyal stepmother. She was caught by her step son and his friends for having sex with a male teacher and was expelled by the school. She then turned to black magic to exact revenge, and killed them one by one two years later when they came back from the capital for holiday. I like the twist in the show's ending, where I discover that she was the victim instead, and was hypnotized to have sex with the male teacher through the work of a bomoh. The plot added in a deadly romance of her step son, who was discovered to be dead two years ago only at the end, and it was his soul that follows the second female lead, ensuring her safety and rescue her from the dangers. Never does I know that, it was due to a fact that, the second female lead set a love curse on him when they were still in their teen years. He killed her at the end so that she could accompany him forever.

Ghost game is a Thai horror film about 11 contestants on a reality TV show who must stay in an abandoned military prison where atrocities took place years before. The film was controversial because the setting closely matched that of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, where the Khmer Rouge in Thailand's neighbor, Cambodia, tortured prisoners. In the film, the prison was called S-11, which closely resembles the name the Khmer Rouge used for Tuol Sleng, S-21. It also depicts piles of skulls and bones, similar to many war memorials around Cambodia. Basically, this show just scare people without any guessing of the storyline, and it was quite a thrill. I like. =)

Agrhh, Tuesday blue...