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Thai Horror Film: Mae Nak 3D (2012)

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Mae Nak is probably one of the scariest ghost stories I've seen in a while and the first 3D Thai film. The story is about Nak who dies during childbirth while her husband is away. However, she comes back from the dead to be with her husband. The plot gets interesting because her husband, Mak, is unaware that she died and the couple live together for a while. Now, the film is pretty simple but if you follow the story, you find at the heart is a ghost love story. I’m not going to spoil it but if you like scary films then this will definitely feed your adrenaline.

American Horror: Cabin in the Woods

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Cabin in the Woods , I believe is a remake. I ‘m not too sure but I’m certain that it’s too funny for a serious horror flick. The film starts with five friends going to a cabin in the desolate woods. However, from the beginning the audience knows that movement is being watched and their acts are being influenced. This fact puts everything off when you get somewhere in the middle. Not to ruin the film, but free will does not run freely which contradicts the point of everything the characters go through. In the end of the film, I got the impression that maybe things are exactly as they should be and I got the sense of being fed too many questions and less answers like who were these Gods, and what happened before man came to conquer the Earth. However, the script did a good job trying to meld technology and superstition. Of course, science fiction has always tried to do that with films like Prometheus trying to meld the human need for a higher power with an alternative scientifi...

Aussie Horror Movie: Primal, Brings Fear into the Outback

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The 2010 Australian fictional horror Primal brings fear of the outback to whole new level and will definitely eat a new respect for nature into horror lovers. Set in the pristine outback of Australia, Primal is about six university students on an anthropological expedition to explore 200 year old rock paintings. However, their trip turns into a nightmare when they fall ill to a mysterious disease that brings out their most primitive and primal instincts. The film stars Zoe Tuckwell-Smith (Anja), Krew Boylan (Mel), Linsay Ferris (Chad), Rebekah Foord (Kris), Damien Freeleagus (Warren) and Will Traval (Dace), directed by Josh Reed and is written by Nigel Christensen and Reed. Primal is a hybrid between werewolves and zombies, but has a more organic grounding that makes it believably scary. In the film, slutty Mel goes skinny dipping in the lake near the friends’ camp and becomes the target for bloodsucking leeches. Soon she becomes feverish and sick - and begins to regress into...

Soul’s Code is an eerie resemblance of the X-Files

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Soul’s Code is a 2008 horror/ thriller from Thailand that is suspenseful, entertaining and holds an eerie resemblance to the X-Files. The film alternates between thriller and horror, and is quite graphic which brings it up a notch from most Western horror films. I mean, if you like looking at dead bodies then this film is probably your cup of tea. The story revolves around the death of schoolgirl whose body is found bound and dumped in a box near a Buddhist monastery. Detective Khanon from DSI is assigned to the case after failing to arrest a known criminal. When he starts investigating the murder, he finds a sudden connection to his last case. Khan is assisted by Dr. Nicha and there is a hint of romance between the pair resembling Moulder and Scully in the X-Files. This is obvious especially when the criminal and main suspect is called Mr X. The case is an X-File and while trying to figure it out, Detective Khanon gets clues from the dead. The clues a...