“The Sisters”
Went to watch that Thai horror movie - The Sisters - last night. It was a nice one, albeit the story’s a bit lame.
Well, it was about a prostitute (whom in my humble opinion, looked like a transvestite) who was murdered by one of her customers when she was on her routine whoring activities one night. The guy who murdered her, tortured her a whole deal lot before beheading her. The psychotic dude then tied her head up inside the air con duct, while leaving her body under a bed in a hotel room. And a very angry ghost was born - the one that was even bolder than a poltergeist and with an incorrigible hatred for males.
The grisly murder scene was very realistically done. The blood color was unbelievably real, and that piece of head doesn’t look plastic at all. Nice.
The story then proceed to focus on a group of youths, probably a rock band or something, who rented the same hotel room many months (or years) later. I took no notice of the time, as there’s a motherfucker who sat so upright in front of me that his big stupid head blocked almost half the script (it’s a Thai movie, I had to read the scrip to understand).
As expected, the group was damn unlucky to discover that they have a transvestite looking ghost up inside the air con duct and sometimes, under their bed. Quite exciting. And soon, each of them start to die one by one .. each in their own freakish way, just like the movie Final Destination - only that their ambassador of death is a transvestite looking female ghost - who’s not very coy in nature .. and would not hesitate to show her awful face in the public.
The real credit in this movie was the death scenes, which was very realistic. Real blood is not actually red - but dark maroon with slight yellowish hue when it is being smeared. The design of the ghost ? Not bad. It uses the usual Asian elements in the art of ghost making. You know, plenty of green lights… long hair … white robes, rags, etc. The only thing that they’ve added was the eerie looking contact lenses …plus some red veins around the ghost’s face - to add more ferocity to it’s face. Then there’s a ghost kid that would do occasional stray haunting, but he’s just a static fuck and does no real harm. Then there’s the other ghost sister, who made only less than 5 minutes worth of appearance in the movie - she looked like Natalie Portman in her younger years.
It wasn’t a very scary movie, but still quite nice.
Highlight during the experience of watching this movie :
- there’s an idiot in front of me who sat damn upright that he blocked most of the script during the movie. I’m not too sure what’s his problem but, it was sure hell annoying. I almost wanted to throw pieces of ice on his head to hint him but, I ran out of ice.
- there’s a giant blimp next to me that stinks. He smelled like a wet dog and always adjust his position. Each time he does that (adjust his position), the entire row of seats will shake like an earthquake (because he’s too fucking heavy). I can’t give him an elbow coz he’s a very big person, the type that nobody should mess with. I left him alone.
- there were 3 girls behind my row, that always shrieks throughout ‘almost’ the entire movie. They would occasionally go “eeeeek !!!”, “eee-yeeerrr !!!”, “arrrrhhhh !!” and sometimes, some jerking due to the surprise elements in the movie. Oh goddamn, it was so fucking funny. But they didn’t make it till the end, about halfway through the movie, they decided to quit and abandon the cinema. The 3 girls quickly squirmed out from their seats and fled the cinema while one of them still ee-king. It triggered a massive laughter inside the cinema when they skedaddled across the cinema hall like a bunch of timid mice.
But one thing, the movie was shown in a home video format - coz it wasn’t in wide screen format. What the fuck.
Word of the day : Ee-Yerrr. (coz I heard this word for like, 2 million times ? throughout the movie..)
An expression that tells other people that you’re very freaked.