Sunday, May 28, 2023

'Bangkok Haunted' (2001) Oxide Chun Pang & Pisut Praesangeam. 

This inventive, engagingly lurid terror triptych from Thailand remains an atmospheric, darkly compelling, deliciously haunting horror compendium! Like all spook-slathered anthologies, it's a mixed body bag, nonetheless, this sporadically chilling creepshow exudes a singular strangeness that makes it stick out from the shroud! Capable filmmakers, Oxide Chun Pang & Pisut Praesangeam deliver some shuddersome visuals, offering frightfans a uniquely twisted tableau of quintessentially Thai terror! I have a strong preference for blackened occult fantasies, and these eldritch excursions into hell are sinisterly steeped in folkloric fright. Macabre, stylishly shot, and fabulously freaky, I enjoyed every sultry, skin crawlingly creepy second of these ghostly far-flung tales, with the hauntingly off-beat 'Legend of The Drum' being a sinisterly simmering highlight!! While manifestly Asian, doomily drenched in eerie exotica, 'Bangkok Haunted' might also appeal to fans of the classic Amicus anthology style. 

 


 









 

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