Seven Days in Coffin
Director: ?
Starring: Surachai SaengArkard, Khemmasorn Nookaaw,
Panida Worrabutr
Running Time: 97 minutes
Year: 2003
O.k. so I bit again on a
low budget Thai horror and the taste was not pleasant. This is so monotonously
bland that I almost wanted to climb into the coffin and take a long sleep.
The acting is awful, the music is annoying and the film would have felt stretched
at thirty minutes. At ninety-seven minutes it felt like it would never end
– though oddly some of the filler was the best part of the film. This is
your basic the dead come back for revenge motif, but never has a ghost done
it in such a lackluster and leisurely manner. The ghost union should object
to this type of tedious portrayal of themselves. Have a work ethic damn it
- kill people, don't just loiter about!
Mali is dead – drowned
by an unknown assailant in the river. It turns out in the follow up investigation
that Mali was the village pin cushion – she seems to have slept with just
about anything that moved while she was alive and even manages to seduce
the undertaker after she is dead! She was also two months pregnant and was
demanding that everyone she had slept with to take responsibility for the
child – none of the men were thrilled with this and thus many had a motive
for killing her. Her corpse is laid out for burial rites for seven days and
during this time her ghost comes and goes as it pleases. She chats with various
people and promises revenge, but annoyingly keeps forgetting to tell anyone
who murdered her. If she had done so it would have saved everyone a lot of
trouble and a few lives as well and me from having to watch this film – but
some things you want to do for yourself I suppose. At one point her baby
pops out and starts running after one of the suspects and it looked like
this might get fun – but the baby was never spotted again though there are
reports that it became a DJ in a Bangkok hiphop dance club.
Now the real highlight
of the film was complete filler that came out of nowhere and made no sense
in the context of the film, but I was only too happy to see it by that time.
The investigating cop wanders down to the river with his very large-chested
girlfriend (who we had not seen previously nor ever again after this scene)
and she decides for no particular reason to walk into the water thus creating
the equivalent of a Thai wet sari scene – but with the cop looking
bored as if he has seen this show before, she decides to take it off and
take him into the barn. Wow – a murky Thai nude scene – still quite rare
in Thai commercial film, but I have noticed an easing off of their restrictions
in this regard as of late – though possibly these were straight to video
films and thus ducked under the very stringent censor radar. In an amusing
out take at the end, the busty girl was having a heck of a hard time raising
the wet shirt above the two rather large obstacles in its path and she breaks
down laughing!
My rating for this film:
2.0