GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 20 February 2015
Watched on Netflix 18 Feb 2017
Watched on Netflix 18 Feb 2017
Rating? Unrated
SPOILERS? YES
REVIEWS
STORYLINE
Three young, beautiful girls arrive in Thailand to teach
English for the summer, some with noble intentions and some just wanting an
adventure, but none were prepared for the massacre that awaited them. The
nightmare begins when their new friends go missing, vivid bloody dreams haunt
their sleep and a stolen statue leads them down a dark path into Thai folklore
and magic that has been long forgotten. Their situation continues to become
worse once they realize it's not WHAT that is haunting them but WHO: an eight-year
girl, brutally murdered and sacrificed by her family decades ago who wants
nothing more than to watch them bleed. This is not a story about redemption.
This is not a story about good versus evil. This is not a story about the will
to survive. This is a story about Vanida - a child viciously tortured by her
own family, who will stop at nothing for revenge - one appendage at a time. (IMBD Story Synopsis)
MY REVIEW
Well, I gave it a shot. I was pretty sure it was going to be a crap filled ride but the idea of the story seemed interesting. I do typically enjoy cultural nuanced stories set in places like Thailand. I was mistaken. First alarms bell went off with UNRATED. That is typically where I can tell... I should have stopped there. I gave this movie a 2 because I DO like gory movies. It's very near the line between gory horror and torture porn. VERY FINE LINE and it toes the line very close!!
What I DID LIKE about this movie:- The Gore: Like I said, this movie toes the line between torture porn and horror. It's a very blurry line.
What I DID NOT LIKE about this movie:
- The Girl in the Gold Paint: Just look at the actor in the gold paint. Just ridiculous!
- The Acting: Wow, not sure if it was the direction, the writing or the acting, but there was some combination of the three was JUST did not work for me.
- The Story: Oh, boy.. where do I start!?!? Well, the main part of the story is based on the Kumari Legend. Well, the Kumari mainly Nepalese NOT Thai and it's not violent or hurtful. It;s the basic idol worship of a young girl who embodies the Kumar Devi or Living Goddess believed to be an incarnation of the goddess Taleju. (Click here to read the article about the Kumari from the National Geographic) I was just taken out of the story because I had recently read about the Kumari culture and this was just a bad bastardization.
On a more personal note.....Today was a pretty enjoyable day. Let the baby bears (aka kittens) go out into the back yard. Bella and Jinx were the only ones who really wanted to play in the grass. Dexter refused to sit for a photo. Baby Rocket let me take a pic when we came inside. I got ready to go to game night at a friends house!
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