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.

How to Survive 4bia

***Post may contain spoiler!***

4bia is made up of 4 different supernatural/horror themed short films as the title suggests(or you can't even catch it in the first place).



List of stories in order of appearance:

1. Happiness(English)/Loneliness(Thai)
2. Tit for Tat(English)/Deadly Charm(Thai)
3. In the Middle
4. Last Fright(pun intended?)

Loneliness/Happiness



Plot: A girl, stucked at home due to her broken leg. Thus, she is lonely. Therefore, she finds companionship through text messaging people with her cellphone. Eventually, she went on happily and unsuspectingly messaging this random, unknown and mysterious guy. However, what she finds delight in soon turns out to be her worst nightmare.

Review: I don't know why it happened but, there are certain scenes which made the audience burst out in laughter although I don't think its meant to be a joke. Cheap yet effective strategies were used in this segment to scare the shit outta you. There wasn't much dialouge in this one but the actress's really so good that you won't get lost in the plot.

First Fright: Girl MMS unknown guy her picture, guy MMS back exactly the same one stating that he's in it too. However, girl could only see herself in the picture. Upon a second closer inspection, there is, indeed someone next to her...



Last Shock: When riddle boy over at the other end of the phone makes his GRAND APPEARANCE. I didn't see this one coming at all and it's probably the one which will make you scream the very first time of watching 4bia. The smart ass thing about this shock is that it sets the mood for the rest of your voyage through this roller-coaster ride.



Tit for Tat/Deadly Charm


Plot: A bunch of stuck-up bastards beating up a school nerd. School nerd retaliate with black magick. Eventaully, almost everyone end up dying in freak accidents.

Review: This one, spams cheap and horrible CG effects throughout the storyline. It made the effects in "Money No Enough 2" look darn good. Ironically, "Tit for Tat" is the one which made me wet my pants. This one is also the perfect harmony between "Body #19" and "Shutter". Much gore was in it, yet it hasn't forget the freak factor of a traditional horror film.

However, some people call it a cheap rip-off of the Final Destination Triology.

First Fright: The return of the vengeful spirit of the school nerd.



Last Shock: At the end of the story, the UFP(unidentified flying paper) will be revealed. If you wanna avoid this cheap shock, just cover your ears. Sadly, I didn't. That's why I got so freaked out to the extent that Keng Boon almost lost his right arm. ^^



In the Middle


Plot: Four guys went on a kayaking trip. The eve of their kayaking activity, these four dudes joke about what they are gonna do if anyone of them end up dead in this trip. Well, I think you can guess what goes on next.

"In the Middle" is a sheer mixture of horror meets comedy. Throughout this one, ye'd be laughing one second and screaming your lungs out the next. Okay, maybe not the lungs part cause this story isn't that freaky when you give it a second thought. At least, nothing freaked me out during this part. To be darn frank with you, I thought I had the all-seeing-eye when I was watching this part cause the ending's too darn predictable.

First FrightLaugh: At the begining of the show.

Last ShockLaugh: All the way to the ending.

Last Fright



Plot: Oh ho, this story is freaking easy to summarize. Wife versus mistress, fullstop. Except except, wife is firstly, a royalty. Then, a corpse.

Review: Although it has often been said that "Last Fright" was suppose to be the scariest of all four, but I beg to differ. It was much scarier than "In the Middle" but not as horrifying as "Tit for Tat". Still, better than "Loneliness" in terms of freak factor. It's a kinda old style horror flick with a conservative plot.

First Fright: The first fright in Last Fright is defeinitely, when Your Highness made her first close-up on screen... as a lving human being.



Boo! Okay, fine. Let's get serious this time.

It's when she had her allergy attack acting up.



Trust me, she's ain't dead yet in this screenshot.

Last Shock: She's already a classic horror figure during her life time, how do you think she'd be scoring as one when she's dead? Then again, if you've got emetophobia, I strongly encourage you to avoid all scenes which she'll appear when she's dead. You won't like it when you see it.

Final Conclusion

If you don't feel like reading on, just take note of this: Go watch this damn show, it's bloody nice!

And if you can still read on...

Initially, I thought I was either gonna go through yet another gorily bloody "Body #19" or some "Alone" that will eventually end with something tear-dropping. Hell, I was wrong. "4bia" ain't all of that. However, it's all of those.

In other words, it's a perfect combo of all the recent Thai horror hit you've been watching.

Overall, it should have gotten an 8.5 over 10 if not for the cheap CG effects in "Tit for Tat". These people should learn to leave getting invloved with CG to the Hollywood instead.

Although this whole film is supposed to be a supernaturally-themed horror flick but, much laughter was heard in most part of it. And yes, certain scenes was worth laughing at.

In conclusion; darn, the Thais did it again, 8/10.

Prom Night Review and stuffs

Last Friday, went to school with Yuan Shan, kenna fly aeroplane by cher ie, my dearest Ms. Retro stood us up on a consultation. But it wasn't her fault, it was some damned dude's fault.

Anyways, panicked and called up Hongkie. Didn't know where that sort of illogical response came from, but yeah, I just called him up when I was suffering from a shock attack from being stood up on a consultation. And luckily, he was just around the corner of my vicinity, hanging around, smoking pots or so.

Reached the office, chatted with Yuan Shan and Jun Kang, Hongkie came with his newly rebonded hair. Idled around, left at 5pm. Headed to Tiong, with Hongkie and the intention to catch Dark Night but damn, he caught it before I did.

Then, settled on the decision to watch the 2008 remake of the original film 28 years ago and yet, has got no resembalance or whatsoever to its 1980 version except for the title, "Prom Night".




















For anyone who hasn't watched it, here's something for you all: DON'T fcukingly watch this crap film. I had to say that it was one hell of a bad movie, and I mean it. It sucks, big time!

The only time that this whole darn movie really freaked me out was when I spotted a black figure dashing out of nowhere through the corner of my eyes. And it wasn't even tho movie itself that scared me! However, that unidentified "black figure" was proved to be mere cinema crew walking past the hallway.

Still, you can't blame me for being such a scaredy cat considering the fact that I had just had a spooky encounter two days ago and it was also the first day of the Hungry Ghost Festival! Comfirm paranoid!

Anyways, after some dilly-dallys, we eventually went over to a hawker centre near Hongkie's house and had our dinner.





















Along came Cowen with his new hair growth.





















Then, we were joined by yet another of Hongkie's friend, Ben. This guy's a head-turner.





















Eventually, left for Tiong Bahru Park. En route towards the destination, there came this conversation between me and Hongkie after I've spotted a lizard climbing across the overhead bridge's ceiling:

Me: Ahhh! Lizard!
Hong: It won't come over.
Me: It sure does. When I was young, there was a lizard that fell right on me from the ceiling.
Hong: That's impossible, it won't happen.

Oh boy, do mark his last sentence. While we were slacking under a pavilion at the park, a lizard did fell from the roof and on the guy who didn't believed that it should happen. Yes, it landed on Hongkie's back and he had a display of extreme "dramatism" within that few seconds before it hopped off.

Man, it was hilarious. At least something good like this happened that day among all the other unhappy events. =D

Iron Man!

Lazy lazy lazy me. I've been neglecting my blog for far too long. At a certain point of time, I even forgot that I own a Blog...

Sorry Bloggie, I just forgot your existence for that tiny twee bit split seconds. Hoho.

Alot has happened during the period of my absence. Written test, presentations, script writing, depression, lack of self-evaluation, sex love life, rivalry, lessons, sore eyes, tummy aches, headaches, new friends, Absolute Boyfriend, 恶作剧2吻, acne probs, Great-Grand-Don't-Know-Who's birthday, Great-Grand-Don't-Know-Who's funeral and more.

But, we will talk about those later.

The main focus: Iron Man!

This film's great, nuff said. I think I'm not the only blogger who has been blabbering raves for this movie.

I mean, it's simply a WOOT!
Marvel's got the great eye of selecting its cast as Iron Man/Tony Stark, they've got Robert Downey Jr doing the job.

Robert Downey Jr

This guy is the perfect man as Tony. He's got the groove and all as him. He's simply great. I'm still so awed by this film that I can't put my thoughts in words properly. Awww, my brain must have been burnt by Downey Jr's hotness!

Ah, to the point. Just go catch this film which one should never miss. HOWEVER, take note, important:

STAY ON TO WATCH THE CLIP AFTER THE CREDITS!

I didn't, and I was sure to regret that. But still, I caught it at Youtube in low quality.

*Spoilers: Click here to watch the after credits if you've missed it.

Before watching Iron Man, something left me feeling very familiar...

The poster says it all:

Iron Man Teaser Poster

This?:

And this:

Hm? Maybe not anyway. Okay, I'm gonna go do my homework now, after lazing around doing nothing for the whole Sunday...

And did I mention Iron Man was a great film?