While best known internationally for producing films by arthouse faves Pen-Ek Ratanaruang and Wisit Sasanatieng Thai production house Five Star Productions were clever enough to realize a good while back that the art houses don't pay the bills. And so they've turned to producing some of the countries better horror films, the latest of which is about to have its world premiere at the American Film Market. A complete English language website has just gone up for former Pang Brothers' assistant Songsak Mongkolthong's The Screen At Kamchanod has just gone online, and good thing. It's packed with fascinating information on the project, which is based on an actual event that took place in the rural countryside, where outdoor film screenings are still common, eighteen years ago.
In 1987, four movie screeners stumbled upon a chilling event as they were hired to screen a movie in the forest of Kamchanod, Udon Thani Province.The screeners were wondering why they had no audience at all yet. Yet, as the movie was about to end, a group of people emerged from the forest and lined up in front of the screen. To the screener’s surprise, the audience also began to disappear as mysteriously as they had appeared out of nowhere.
This mystery became a legend which a group of medical professionals had banded together to prove impossible, with a theory that if those film reels were to be found and projected in the same location, it would be a way to bring back the apparition that had appeared on that fateful night.
Stumbling upon clues, the curious group unknowingly falls into a situation that had occurred 18 years ago, endangering their own lives for the sake of proving a haunting legend.
Damn, that looks good, even with all the usual cinematic tricks of loud bangs and quick editing. Hopefully this will be better than most of Pang bros horror efforts.
You can also bet some american studio is going to buy the rights for a remake.
Hot diggidy damn! Bring it on I say!