Producer-director Poj Arnon gets in on the horror omnibus trend with Die a Violent Death (Tai Hong, ตายโหง), which weaves together four stories that are ripped from today's headlines of the Thai mass-circulation dailies -- the newspapers that generally have bleeding corpses on the front page.
Joining Poj are indie directors Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, Chartchai Ketknust and Manus Worrasingha.
Produced by Phranakorn Film, Die a Violent Death follows GTH's successful Phobia anthology franchise and Sahamongkol offered Maha'lai Sayong Kwan (Haunted Universities) last year.
I'm told that Die a Violent Death will be a bit different, in that the stories will be linked somehow to form a continuous narrative, rather than taking things segment-by-segment as the others have done.
The stories involve a dead body in an apartment building's water tank, directed by Tanwarin, a ghost in prison, directed by Manus, a New Year's Eve pub fire (mirroring last year's deadly blaze at Bangkok's Santika pub), directed by Chartchai, and a ghost in a motel by Poj.
Stars include Mai Charoenpura, Akara Amarttayakul, Supaksorn Chaimongkol and Wasana Chalakorn (the crazy woman from last year's The 8th Day).
The trailer has been at YouTube for awhile. There it is below if you haven't seen it already.
Die a Violent Death opens in cinemas on Thursday.
Can't wait to see this, but will it be as good as Phobia series?
ReplyDeleteGoodness.... another one for my list.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm? The water tank scene on the roof is reminding me a lot of the Japanese horror, "Dark Water" though.....
....but darn it... I'll still wanna watch it. :)
Ah, that's right. The pun on Santika that I couldn't remember during the podcast was ซานติฆ่า using the Thai word ฆ่า /khaa/ "kill" on the last syllable.
ReplyDelete