SYNOPSIS:
In "Ghost Game", 11 participants are locked up inside
a former-prison-turned-museum for a 24 hours reality TV show.
The concept of the game is that the contestants must provoke
the wrath of all the vengeful spirits inhabiting the faded
walls of the former prison where thousands suffered and perished
years before. The contestant who manages to endure the nerve-rattling
atmosphere the longest walks away with Bt5 million.
MOVIE
REVIEW
Nowadays,
it’s hard to find a channel that does not contain at
least one reality based television program show. Ranging from
designer slogging it out for fashion week to racing around
the world and (of course) the most popular serenading viewers
with their voice contests, it’s hard to not at least
one episode of the wide range of reality program show.
There’s
one kind of reality program that had yet to hit us and that
spooking contestants with “supernatural” obstacles
till only the last bravest participant remained. Of course,
there’s plenty of constrain which almost seems impossible
to pull through but lucky in the movie world, there’s
Ghost Game to see how it can be done (or how it should not
be done).
In Ghost
Game, a group of participants were chosen to test the limits
of their guts by spending days in a “haunted”
prison that had been turned into a memorial. In case it’s
not scary enough, this group of participants have to perform
a series of nerve wrecking activities that invokes the vengeful
spirits that inhabits this site.
The 11
contestants of Ghost Game were actual final contestants of
the Academy Fantasia, Thailand version of American Idols.
While their acting were not top notch, they did remarkable
well to convey the sense of fear and anxiety. It’s a
good choice on the production team to choose this group as
the selection process in an Idol program would normally select
those few with either distinctive likeability or the ability
to entertain. Even viewer like me who had never seen an episode
of the Thailand Idol found each of the actors’ characters
accessible and uniquely memorable which made me worried about
the survival of some of my favorite contestants.
Beside
likeable cast, the production value in this horror film made
me seat up. The cinematography and overall production look
so much more polish compare to the six other Thai movies that
I caught this year. If more Thai films are produced in this
standard, Thailand will give Korea and Hong Kong fierce competition
in the Asia film market.
Overall,
this is a decent horror movie with a fair amount of spookiness
and scariness. Seasoned horror genre veteran might find it
tame but I had at least a couple of “jump out of seat”
moments while watching this movie. But beside fright moments,
there something that this movie offered which made me want
to give this film an extra half star ratings and it’s
how it played against predictable expectation to delivery
the omnipotence of the evil ones.
MOVIE RATING:
 
Review
by Richard Lim Jr
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