Bangkok Haunted

Bangkok Haunted
Bangkok Haunted
	Thai release poster
Directed by	Oxide Pang; Pisut Praesangeam
Written by	Pisut Praesangeam; Sompop Wetchapipat
Produced by	Pisut Praesangeam; Jantima Liawsirikun
Starring	Pimsiree Pimsee; Dawan Singha-wee
Cinematography	Vichien Ruengvichayakun; Decha Srimunta; Nuttawut Kittikun
Edited by	Piyapan Choopetch
Music by	Orange Music
Distributed by	RS Film
Release dates	December 21, 2001 (Thailand); March 24, 2003 (United Kingdom); July 26, 2005 (United States);
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Thailand
Language	Thai

Bangkok Haunted (Thai: ผีสามบาท) is a 2001 Thai horror anthology film directed by Oxide Pang and Pisut Praesangeam. It consists of three ghost stories, as told by three people sitting around in a darkened Bangkok bar.

Premise

'"Legend of the Drum'"

An antiques dealer discovers that a dancer's musical spirit possesses an old drum in her shop.

"Black Magic Woman"

A lonely young woman is given an aphrodisiac perfume that is extracted from corpses.

"Revenge"

A police cadet searches for the truth behind a girl's suicide by hanging.

Cast

Pimsiree Pimsee as Pagar
Pramote Seangsorn
Dawan Singha-Wee as Pan
Kalyanut Sriboonrueng as Kanya
Pete Thong-Jeur as Nop

Release

At the time of its release in Thailand, Bangkok Haunted was the second-biggest grossing Thai horror film since Nang Nak in 1999.

The film was screened at the London Thai Film Festival on October 13, 2002.

Reception

Variety critic Derek Elley noted the film's atmospheric stylistic touches and technique, saying the first segment, Legend of the Drum was the strongest in terms of storytelling. Black Magic Woman is "largely an excuse for soft-porn sequences between some yucky shocks", Elley wrote. He said Revenge has weak plot development and had an over-reliance on "flashy effects".^[1]

Home media

Bangkok Haunted was released on Region 2 DVD on March 24, 2003 by Tartan Video and on Region 1 DVD July 26, 2005 by Panik House Entertainment.

Sequels

In the Philippines, the unrelated 2003 film The Unborn was released as Bangkok Haunted 2: The Unborn on August 18, 2004 but It's Nakhon Sawan .^[2] The 2009 film Haunted Universities was also released in some territories as Bangkok Haunted 3 but there are Haunted Universities 2nd Semester and Haunted Universities 3.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Elley, Derek (9 December 2002). "Bangkok Haunted". Variety.
^ "Opens Today!". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. August 18, 2004. p. A31. Retrieved September 8, 2022. More true tales from beyond the grave

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[1] Elley, Derek (9 December 2002). "Bangkok Haunted". Variety.

[2] "Opens Today!". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. August 18, 2004. p. A31. Retrieved September 8, 2022. More true tales from beyond the grave

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v t e Films directed by the Pang brothers
The Eye	The Eye (2002) The Eye 2 (2004) The Eye 10 (2005) The Child's Eye (2010)
Other films	Bangkok Dangerous (1999) Omen (2003) Re-cycle (2006) The Messengers (2007) Bangkok Dangerous (2008) The Storm Warriors (2009) Out of Inferno (2013)
Oxide Pang	Who Is Running? (1997) One Take Only (2001) Bangkok Haunted (2001) The Tesseract (2003) Ab-normal Beauty (2004) Diary (2006) The Detective (2007) Basic Love (2009) The Detective 2 (2011) Sleepwalker (2011) Conspirators (2013) Detective Gui (2015) My War (2016) The Big Call (2017) High Forces (TBD)
Danny Pang	Nothing to Lose (2002) Leave Me Alone (2004) Forest of Death (2007) In Love with the Dead (2007) Fairy Tale Killer (2012) The Strange House (2015) The Mirror (2015) Blind Spot (2015) Delusion (2016)