The Coffin

Mahorela went "Coffin-watching" with fish beehoon gang.


























The Coffin(2008)

"The Coffin" is a production made between Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong and is directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham of "Beautiful Boxer" and "Pleasure Factory", which stars Ananda Everingham(Shutter, The Leap Years) and Karen Mok(Shaolin Soccer, So Close).

You know, I like the tagline "Tempt Fate. Cheat Death." At the end of the whole film, you know how true that tagline was. It felt like you had been "tempted" to watch this film only to have your money "cheated" by them.



That was the trailer which tempted me to watch "The Coffin".



This was the proof that my money had been cheated.

Start of the story, a ritual known as non loeng sadorcro (literally "lie in coffin, get rid of bad luck") is going on and is supposed to get rid of bad luck and bless all participants with good luck.



Then, you have cancer girl(Karen Mok) struck with cancer and heading down town to participate in this ritual in hope of a miracle.



Next, you have love-struck boy(Ananda Everingham) taking part in this ritual in an effort to cure coma girl(Aki Shibuya) from her coma(duh).



Miracle came and worked for both parties but eventually, strage things start happening to both of them.







The ending for this film? Just like any other typical Thai horror film you can expect of, a moral story at the end of the day. You learn what it is like to live life as a human being; you're helpless as ever, don't try to change you destiny, blah blah blah...

BUT, the not so typical Thai movie ending "The Coffin" offers you is that, you don't even fcuking know it when the end came. It's like you'd be asking those around you "Huh? Like that then end already arh?! WTF?!"

Conclusion? This movie isn't really what most audience would expect from a Thai horror hit. Sure, there is those parts which makes you jump outta your seat and pee your pants, but they were all too expected by a seasoned horror movie watcher. It's like when you wanna scare your audiences in a certain scene, you don't let your camera angle expose everything. Watch it and you'll get what I mean.

Most imprtantly, everything else got ruined by the ending. The ending itself was way too sucky and abrupt. That's why, I would advise people against watching "The Coffin", they should go invest their money in "REC" instead and I'll write a "REC" review soon.

Thus, go watch this movie when you have the extra bucks to spare or if you have a crush on Ananda Everingham. Speaking of that, I notice that he had been looking greater than ever with the new haircut!



Oh, look how pretty my anata Ananda looks even when he's freaked out. ^^

*Cough cough*

So, overall, I'd give this film a 6.3 over 10.