Ghost Game (Thai Horror)
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In "Ghost Game", 11 participants are locked up inside a former-prison-turned-memorial for a 24 hours reality TV show. Following the concept of the game, the contestants have to 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 will walk away with the cash prize of Bt5 million.
NC16
100 minutes
Opens 17 Aug 2006 in local cinemas
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Review courtesy of MovieXclusive:
The premise of “Ghost Game” is quite straightforward and is an unusual spin on the age-old story of daring people to enter seemingly haunted houses. 11 contestants enter into a reality television programme that will pay out the highest amount in Thai game-show history (5 million Baht) to the contestant that endures the longest in an apparently haunted torture camp. But as usual, the best laid plans never goes the way it should as they find that the ghosts are far more violent than they had expected.
Mired in controversy when it was first released in Thailand, the film’s setting closely resembled (by name and representation) Cambodia’s infamous Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, where the Khmer Rouge tortured and killed countless dissidents. The “Ghost Game” producers built the set in Thailand after requests to use the actual museum were denied. Boycotts were called when it was released, leading to a Cambodian ban on the feature while Thai-Cambodian relations hit an all-time low despite the filmmakers’ apologies and a disclaimer at the start of the film. Unfortunately, due to these problems, there seems to be a substantial amount of scenes referencing the Khmer people that were edited out, which ended up marring the quality of the final cut quite significantly.
“Ghost Game” somewhat resembles the 2003 Norwegian scare fest, “Villmark” which had the same idea of a survival-reality television programme choosing contestants to travel deep into the Norwegian woods, encountering evils both plain and unseen. While that film took time to build on the characters, “Ghost Game” had no such intentions. Right off the bat, with no back-stories revealed about the contestants, we’re introduced to them in the midst of travelling to the house of horrors. With 11 contestants excluding the crew of the reality series, that’s a whole lot of characters to keep track off, each apparently from disparate walks of life........
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So its a reality movie? Or the reality game is part of the movie?
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Ok its a movie about a reality show.
Interesting sidenote, all the 11 contestants WERE infact contestants in a Thai reality show, which had nothing to do with ghosts lah. I think singing competition. -
I just watch it last nite...midnite show.
It was a good show, got all the scary stuff but somehow it just doesnt cut it as an excellent horror show. I expected some twists to the storyline but in the end it was an outright normal ghost show and the ending was disappointing. The ghosts arent all that scary.
My verdict? Worth a watch....better than alot of B grade horror shows to come out in recent years but maybe not worth watching it on premium days spending 9.50. Rating 3/5 -
hmm..dontknow if i should watch..
usually thai horror show are good..
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The premise seemed interesting enough - a group of game contestants undertaking the ultimate dare, to rough it out in an unused prison renowned for its haunting given that it was the location of a massacre. The news film reel style at the beginning, without showing much gore, already set the atmosphere and mood, providing much anticipated scares for our 11 contestants. Again I'm sad to say that this horror flick didn't work for me.
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This movie is like the modified version of Battle Royale, instead of people killing people, its the ghost that is doing the job
And also they are stuck in a deserted place
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haha, you drew that parallel too?