Bangkok Haunted

Bangkok Haunted
The Thai theatrical poster.
Directed by	Oxide Pang Pisut Praesangeam
Produced by	Pisut Praesangeam Jantima Liawsirikun
Written by	Pisut Praesangeam Sompop Wetchapipat
Starring	Pimsiree Pimsee Dawan Singha-wee
Music by	Orange Music
Cinematography	Vichien Ruengvichayakun Decha Srimunta Nuttawut Kittikun
Edited by	Piyapan Choopetch
Distributed by	RS Film
Release dates	Thailand: December 21, 2001 United Kingdom: March 24, 2003 United States: July 26, 2005
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Thailand
Language	Thai

Bangkok Haunted (Thai: ผีสามบาท) is a 2001 Thai horror film compilation, directed by Oxide Pang and Pisut Praesangeam. It is a trio of ghost stories, as told by three people sitting around in a darkened Bangkok bar.

Plot

Legend of the Drum

An antiques dealer discovers that a dancer's musical spirit possesses an old drum in her shop.

Black Magic Woman

A lonely young woman is given an aphrodisiac perfume. It is extracted from corpses.

Revenge

A police cadet searches for the truth behind a girl's suicide by hanging.

Cast

Pimsiree Pimsee as Pagar
Pramote Seangsorn
Dawan Singha-Wee as Pan
Kalyanut Sriboonrueng as Kanya
Pete Thong-Jeur as Nop

Release and reception

At the time of its release in Thailand, Bangkok Haunted was the second-biggest grossing Thai horror film since Nang Nak in 1999.

The film was screened at the London Thai Film Festival on October 13, 2002.

Reviewing the film at the festival, Variety critic Derek Elley noted the film's atmospheric stylistic touches and technique, saying the first segment, Legend of the Drum was the strongest in terms of storytelling. Black Magic Woman is "largely an excuse for soft-porn sequences between some yucky shocks", Elley wrote. He said Revenge has weak plot development and had an over-reliance on "flashy effects".^[1]

Bangkok Haunted was released on Region 2 DVD on March 24, 2003 by Tartan Video and on Region 1 DVD July 26, 2005 by Panik House Entertainment.

Some called unrelated one story The Unborn (2003) and four stories Haunted Universities (2009) as Bangkok Haunted 2 and 3.

References

↑ Bangkok Haunted Review - Film Reviews-Festival, Entertainment - Variety

External links

Bangkok Haunted at the Internet Movie Database
Bangkok Haunted at AllMovie
Bangkok Haunted at Rotten Tomatoes

Films of the Pang brothers

The Eye	The Eye (2002) The Eye 2 (2004) The Eye 10 (2005) The Child's Eye (2010)

Other films	Bangkok Dangerous (1999) Sung horn (2003) Re-cycle (2006) The Messengers (2007) Bangkok Dangerous (2008) The Storm Warriors (2009) Out of Inferno (2013)

Oxide Pang	Who Is Running? (1997) Bangkok Haunted (2001) One Take Only (2003) The Tesseract (2003) Ab-normal Beauty (2004) Diary (2006) The Detective (2007) Basic Love (2009) The Detective 2 (2011) Sleepwalker (2011) Conspirators (2013) Detective Gui (2015) My War (2016)

Danny Pang	Nothing to Lose (2002) Leave Me Alone (2004) Forest of Death (2007) In Love with the Dead (2007) Fairy Tale Killer (2012) The Strange House (2015) The Mirror (2015) Blind Spot (2015) Delusion (2016)

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