Sick Nurses (สวยลากไส้) is a Thai Horror film about a rundown, shabby looking hospital in Bangkok. Tahwaan, who happens to be a lady-boy, was to marry Dr. Tar, until discovering that the good old doctor had gotten one of the other nurses pregnant, feeling betrayed he/she/’IT’ threatens to go to the police and inform them of the body-selling scam that’s been taking place, in order to save themselves, the other nurses kill her off. Tahwaan, returns to haunt them, killing them one by one, in the goriest ways possible.
I sometimes got confused watching this movie, not because of the storyline or anything, but the way it came across felt like a porno at times. It’s probably the most sex-charged horror film I’ve ever seen … yet there’s no sex! Soft-porn-Horror! Despite this the film is quite good, it doesn’t hang about, wasting time with a “plot”; the action is prominent from the get-go.
You get the idea that the film is not to be taken too seriously, but yet it does have some strange and unexpected twists towards the end and there’s some intriguing camera work throughout the film.
So, the film’s nothing spectacular, but if you like pretty girls in nurse outfits getting slaughtered, you should definitely watch it... and who doesn't like that?
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Review: Sick Nurses (Thailand, 2007)
Friday, 26 February 2010
Review: 13: Game of Death (Thailand, 2006)
13: Game of Death aka 13 Beloved (13 เกมสยอง) is a psychological thriller with elements of black comedy. The story revolves around a young man; Phuchit (Krissada Terrence), who is at rock bottom after losing his job, his girlfriend and his car.
Phuchit then gets a mysterious phone call, the voice on the other end of the phone tells him he has a chance to win 100 million baht, all he has to do is 13 tasks. Phuchit is apprehensive at first, but eventually takes on the tasks one by one, instructed by the voice on the telephone. The tasks start out simple enough but as time goes on they get more brutal. Some tasks are funny (Task 3), some are kind of gross (Task 5) and some are a mixture of both (Task 7).
As the tasks go on Phuchit has to face up to aspects of his past and make moral decisions that will affect his future. The films manages to hold the viewers suspense throughout and you are forever wondering what the next task will bring. The film also demonstrates the lengths that people will go due to their greed and love of money.
This is by far one of the best films I have seen from Thailand yet.
Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Year: 2006
