BANGKOK HAUNTED

Three girls gathered to chat in a bar decide to tell each other three horror stories and see which one is the most terrifying. The first story involves a student who, after moving into a new home, mistakenly receives from the moving company a mysterious and ancient drum that seems to be involved in the tragic story of a beautiful dancer who mysteriously disappeared. In the second story, a young woman looking for the ideal partner uses a strange love oil to make all the people she wants fall in love, but the strange oil seems to lead all the unlucky ones to a tragic end. In the third and final story, a police detective investigates the death of a woman who apparently committed suicide, but he is convinced that behind it all is a terrible murder to uncover. "Bangkok Kill City" is a pretentious and bad anthology film made in Thailand that was released uselessly in Italy only for the home video market. The film, directed by Oxide Pang, a director who in 2002 made a name for himself in the horror genre by directing alongside his brother Danny Pang the intriguing "The Eye" and who in 2004, again with his brother, directed the sequel "The Eye 2", decides this time to make another horror film on his own, without his brother's intervention, actually directing a bad anthology film, all centered on the now tired theme of the ghost. The film has enormous flaws, especially in terms of the script and editing: in fact, the clumsy script only serves to make all three episodes and the surrounding one extremely confusing and messy; while the even worse editing only serves to collaborate with the script, making everything even more confusing and annoying. The first episode, undoubtedly the worst of the three, is characterized by a hallucinating narrative slowness that only serves to bore and frustrate the viewer, with a story that is not very original, confusing, and soporific that sees as a threat the classic Eastern ghost (whitest skin and long black hair covering the face) that once again demonstrates the little Asian imagination and the scarce tendency towards innovation. The second episode, perhaps the most acceptable, could have had excellent potential to make an original and interesting film, but unfortunately it is made in the worst way, resulting also in this case weak, boring, and quite confusing, and moreover, thanks to enormous holes (but more than holes they are abysses) in the script, many things, to which the viewer would have appreciated an answer, remain in suspense or totally overlooked, thus sinking into ugliness an otherwise rather fascinating idea. The third (and finally last) episode is a sloppy police story that would have been suitable for the TV series "Rex" or "Columbo" and that tries in every way to appear horror by inserting fleeting and useless ghost appearances that do not fit well with the story and could have been easily avoided. However, even this episode, although it seems the most complete and certainly the most thought out, turns out to be weak, uninteresting, and too rushed, disappointing the viewer once again. The film also has another very weak point in the digital special effects, which, although not very present (and thank God), are terribly fake, raw, and poorly inserted, and could have been easily avoided since their use was absolutely unnecessary. In conclusion, "Bangkok Kill City" is a sloppy Thai product created with great ambitions but made in the worst way. Uninteresting, very confusing, and, contrary to what Oriental films usually do, it does not even offer us a single unsettling scene or one that can produce anxiety and panic in the audience. A useless film that is not worth the rental money and not even the loss of time watching it on television (also because it is too long, as it almost reaches two hours). Absolutely to be avoided.