Thai Horror - 'STILL' Taai Hong (Die a Violent Death)

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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2011

There is an exploitive Grindhouse feel to the portmanteau horror Tai Hong (ตายโหง, Die a Violent Death, also Still), four short stories that are ripped bleeding from Thailand's mass-market daily newspapers -- the ones that infamously splash gruesome pictures of motorcycle wrecks on their front pages.

The segments deal with a fire in a nightclub on New Year's Eve, death in jail, a dead body in an apartment building's water tank and a haunted motel room.

Released by Phranakorn Film and put together by producer-director Poj Arnon, the results are grittier than the successful recent horror anthologies of other Thai studios -- GTH with its Phobia (Phrang) series and Sahamongkol's Haunted Universities (Maha'lai Sayong Kwan).

Joining Poj in his fun are three indie filmmakers, Chartchai Ketknust, Manus Worrasingha and Tanwarin Sukkhapisit.

Seeing Tai Hong in a cinema, with an enthusiastic Saturday night crowd was a great experience. The Grindhouse atmosphere -- the exploitive, ripped-from-the-headlines subject matter, the cast of familiar actors being put through their paces and a Suspiria-like color palette -- was firmly felt when the reel broke almost toward the end. The lights came up immediately and a smooth jazz soundtrack blared out of the speakers. After about five minutes, just when folks were starting to wonder if the movie was over, the lights went out and the movie started back up again, and Tai Hong roared to an ending that will likely seem a lot less impactful when seen at home on DVD.

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  • wow that was scary and thnx for the info

    Tiffanylovesyoukiss 1 month ago

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