Thai Horror Movies - 3-4

Thai Movies

3AM (2012 Film) – 3AM is a 3D anthology horror film directed by Patchanon Tummajira, Kirati Nakintanon and Isara Nadee, and released in Thailand on November 22, 2012. It is composed of three short films with different themes, united by a common motif of the 3 A.M. hour, considered as the time when supernatural things tend to occur. 3 A.M. is divided into three stories: The Wig, Corpse Bride, and Q.T. None of the stories intersect, however, they do have a common motif of having supernatural things around 3 A.M.

The Wig – Sisters May and Mint are left to run their family business, a wig shop, while their parents are on a vacation in China. A customer offers to sell May some human hair of great quality, without knowledge that the hair was illegally salvaged from a female corpse and that the salvages seemingly committed suicide. May works overtime weaving the new wig but a female apparition haunts her, presumably the owner of the hair. Mint then returns with three friends to continue partying at home and May is infuriated as one of the friends carelessly toys with the wig. After the sisters argue, Mint orders her friend to return the wig to its rightful place, but finds him decapitated in the stock room as he fails to return. The ghost now torments the remaining party of four, then killing Mint’s remaining two friends. The sisters then seek refuge in the kiln dry room and the female ghost traps May inside the kiln dryer. Mint attempts to pry open the door in vain and the machine overheats and explodes. The impact lunges Mint towards the wall, but May is nowhere to be seen. Awoken to the sound of her parents’ return, Mint tries to explain last night’s ordeal, but is disturbed by a distraught May and the fact that everyone ignores her. Mint realizes that she has died from the explosion, being impaled by a glass shard, and that the ghost now inhabits May’s body.

Corpse Bride – Junior mortician Tod is assigned to be stationed at the bridal home of Mike and Cherry, an engaged couple who died a week before their wedding. While performing rituals and maintenance, Tod opens Cherry’s coffin in an attempt to oust an intruding lizard, but is infatuated with Cherry’s beauty. After seeing a dream of Cherry crying for help and uncovering some clues suggesting Mike was jealous and abusive, Tod separates the couple and gets intimate with Cherry’s corpse, hoping to at least save Cherry from Mike even after death. As Tod sleeps with Cherry’s corpse one night, Tod goes into the hallway to check on some noise, only to be frightened by Mike’s ghost. After retreating back into the bedroom, Cherry drags Tod under the bed and stabs his ankle. A frightened Tod then bumps into Mike’s corpse only to be struck by a revelation. Mike bounded Cherry not over jealously, but to prevent her from committing suicide. After Mike unties Cherry out of guilt and sympathy, Cherry overpowers Mike and breaks a glass figurine. Mike struggles to get the glass shard from Cherry’s hand only to have Cherry slash his jugular veins. Cherry then proceeds to slit her own throat and dies. Cherry then asks whether Tod no longer loves her in the same manner she did Mike. Revealing her now rotten face, she kisses Tod, causing him to faint out of fright. Tod awakens and panics as he is trapped inside a coffin, with Cherry sitting on top claiming her new lover.

Q.T. – Executives Karan and Tee take pleasure in playing ghostly pranks on their employees on a daily basis. After scaring of Bump and Ging with a floating head, they proceed to spook a transsexual employee. Rejoicing their success in pulling off such pranks, Bump and Ging make a failed attempt to spook them and then claim that they returned to prepare documents for tomorrow’s meeting. After the four pull off one gruesome prank over another on each other, they decide to return home. However, while in the elevator, both Karan and Tee each receive a phone call, saying that Bump and Ging were found dead under the stairs. It turns out that Bump and Ging fell off the stairs and plummeted into the first floor after being frightened from Karan and Tee’s floating head prank. Realizing the two employees behind them are already dead, Karan reaches for the buttons to get off, but is hindered by Bump. The short ends showing the elevator ascending into darkness.

303 Fear Faith Revenge – Is a 1998 Thai horror film starring Taya Rogers, Arthit Ryu and Ananda Everingham. In this film, an investigation into a star student’s suicide results in several students being stranded in their closed school where they are hunted and killed one-by-one. St. George boarding school, a typical Catholic school with strict rules. A group of new students have heard a rumor about the mysterious suicide case of an honor student whose name was in the school’s Hall Of Fame. Their curiosity to find the truth leads them into the horrid situation. Students and staff members are brutally murdered, one by one; and the entire campus is trapped on top of the hill as there is a landslide that ruins the only road to the school. 

999-9999 – Rainbow has just moved to an international school in Phuket. She soon becomes the center of attention as many new friends are curious to know about the recent death of a student at her old school up North. She relates it to a mysterious phone number: 999-9999, a number reputed to grant the caller’s wish. The victim apparently had his wish granted soon before he was found dead on a flagpole. Despite Rainbow’s warnings, many of her new peers decide to try this out. Although the various wishes are fulfilled, a series of accident-like deaths occur until Sun becomes the only teen in the group left alive. Death is awaiting him, however, as he’s also made a wish which has yet to be fulfilled. Together Rainbow and Sun must solve the mystery of the evil phone number and stop whatever it’s going to bring to them.

Sun is a student in an international school in Phuket. Not academically inclined, he considers himself as “his own man” who doesn’t believe in love and is the head of a clique of pranksters consisting of the attractive but selfish Meena, geeky Chi, smart but timid Wawa and fun-loving Rajit. The overweight Moo Priew aspires to join Sun’s clique but is rejected every time. One day Sun and his friends notice a beautiful and mysterious new transfer student named Rainbow, who is beautiful and mysterious. Rainbow was transferred from a high school in Chiang Mai where a student had been impaled on the school’s flagpole. When asked how it happened, Rainbow says it involved a demon call from the phone number 999-9999. If one calls it after midnight and says a wish, the wish shall be granted later, but as a consequence, death will come to the caller. None of the clique members believe this and Rajit calls it after midnight in front of the others and wishes for a Ferarri. He wakes up the next morning receiving exactly what he wished for by luck. Rajit soon dies from a combination of a scorpion attack and a malfunctioning car wash machine which slices his throat with a spinning blade. The rest of the friends still don’t believe in Rainbow’s story, and even make wishes themselves, prioritizing only the first part of the deal. Meena wishes to be a Channel V Thailand VJ, only to be killed by a hanging noose at a party afterwards. Soon after Meena’s death, Sub begins to investigate about the deadly calls and spends more time with Rainbow. However, the other members of his clique continue to make wishes. Chi wishes not to be a geek anymore and is burned by a fire. Moo Priew wants to lose weight, only to die by falling out of a window with his organs pulled out (thus making him thinner). Wawa wishes to be an astronaut student sharp spears split her head in two. Sun calls the number, wishing for something he believes couldn’t be granted: love. Rainbow then kisses him, and he realizes that his wish was granted as Rainbow’s affection for him. To avoid the possibility of her being killed with him, Sun locks Rainbow in the tower where his clique usually hang out. While watching Rainbow via cameras, Sun realizes that Rainbow is the one causing the deaths of his friends by introducing them to the number, making her a devil’s apprentice. When he returns to the tower, Rainbow vanishes and the number calls Sun, telling him he’s going to die. A heavy box falls from the top of the tower, but Sun manages to avoid it, only to fall on a pipe which pierces through his chest, killing him. A flashback set in Rainbow’s former school shows Rainbow telling the girls there about the number, hence causing the deaths there later on, including the girl who was impaled on a flagpole.