by Brian Thibodeau » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:49 pm
Just wanted to say I FINALLY got around to watching this on the weekend.
It's an efficient little scare movie, despite the concept being rooted in a longstanding hoax, and, as others have already attested to here, it's blessed with a clever ending. I must admit, they got me. I found myself bracing for some kind of SIXTH SENSE knockoff, especially when Tun (Ananda Everingham) kept complaining about his neck. Nice performances all around, with an even dispensation of the spook sequences throughout. I particularly liked how the ghost's hair showed up in the graduation photos as one of the more subtly vague clues as to what was going on, but the filmmakers wisely opted never to spell it out for the audience.
Both the Thai and Hong Kong DVDs contain several alternate edits of key creepout scenes (including the ceiling walk), which makes for an object lesson in the mechanics of the scare.