BANGKOK HAUNTED

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• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Horror, Mystery
• Plot: An old-fashioned omnibus spooker, Bangkok Haunted is framed by scenes in which three young, apparently modern Thai women sit in a deserted cafe on a rainy night and tell each other their own ghost stories. 'Legend of the Drum' is closest in style to traditional Far Eastern horror, with an antique dealer troubled by a drum that seems to invoke the spirit of a girl who disappeared 80 years ago after befriending and then rejecting a hooded, disfigured outcast. 'Black Magic Woman' is a more lurid tale in video nasty style, about a girl who uses an extract of corpses as an aphrodisiac perfume with unpleasant consequences for her lovers--who have spells of vomiting, demon possession or become psychotic ghosts. Oxide Pang, director of The Eye, takes over from Pisuth Praesaengaim for the final episode, 'Revenge', about a cop investigating the death-by-hanging of a young woman with whom he was involved and learning nasty things in the process. Though each 45-minute story is a tad overextended, the film is full of genuinely creepy moments, ranging from delicate ghost scares to splatter gruel. --Kim Newman
• Cast: Pimsiree Pimsee, Dawan Singha-Wee, Kalyanut Sriboonrueng, Pete Thong-Jeur, Oxide Pang Chun, Pisut Praesangeam
• Director: Oxide Pang Chun
• Runtime: 2:10
• Company: Tartan Video, Tartan Video Asia Extreme
• Media Format: Movie