Scared - end of the line bloodbath
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| German title | Scared - end of the line bloodbath |
| Original title | รับ น้อง สยอง ขวัญ (Rap nawng sayawng khwan) |
| Country of production | Thailand |
| original language | Thai |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Pakphum Wonjinda |
| script | Pakphum Wonjinda Prachya Pinkaew |
| production | Prachya Pinkaew Sukanya Vongsthapat |
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Scared is a Thai splatter film from 2005. The third work by the director Pakphum Wonjinda was released in Thailand on November 10, 2005. The film premiered in Germany on July 25, 2006 at the Munich Fantasy Film Festival.
action
At the media science faculty of a Thai university, the new students have to undergo unusual initiation rites. This includes a trip to a mysterious forest. First, the bus with the young people is stopped by a guard who forbids them to pass through. While the students are meeting for dinner in a hut and arguing about how to proceed, a man comes to them who points out an alternative route and offers himself as a navigator. When they stop at a wooden gate, which is supposed to drive away ghosts, the travelers get restless for the first time. While driving over an unstable wooden bridge, the bus crashes into a river and a student dies. The survivors roam the forest in search of help and end up in mortal danger.
Three boys break away from the group and die one after the other. The first victim is killed by a falling stake, the second student is caught in a river and pierced by a broken raft, and the third is killed with a thorny branch. The larger group finds an abandoned village on the edge of the forest and initially feels safe in a kiosk with full shelves. An unknown murderer does not leave them in peace. After beheading two girls with the side window of a car and on the window of a toilet, he rushes into the kiosk and kills a student. Another female victim succumbs to carbon monoxide poisoning in a phone booth.
A student and three fellow students enter a factory hall. There, the asthmatic Ploy is in acute danger of death because she loses her inhaler on the stairs . While Pat is taking care of the girl, the other student is first injured by the hand of the murderer while trying to get the inhaler. After a chase, she is crushed in a metal grille. However, the boy finds the device that saves Ploy at the last moment. When three other students try to escape by car, they meet the man who wanted to lead them into the forest at the beginning of the excursion. In combat, the students can gouge out the man's eye and eventually kill him with a disc harrow . But the next opponent is already waiting outside in the corn field, who slaughters Mew and her fellow students with a circular saw before Phii May kills him with his own weapon. Phii May drives the car to the three students in the factory floor and they flee together until another car chases them and throws them off the street.
Then a young woman panics in the hospital, but when she knocks on a door, the perspective suddenly changes. Now an enthusiastic presenter can be seen and it becomes clear that all of the previous events were the plot of a macabre reality TV show. The viewers - some of them underage - can vote via SMS which of the people shown should die next, and the producers come up with the most original possible ways of death.
background
The idea of letting several young people die one after the other in a curious way has already been successfully implemented in the film series Final Destination . The director of Scared tried to achieve a natural charisma with his actors by not informing them about the respective plot until the morning of the shooting day.
criticism
The film is praised at video.de: "Sovereign staging, rich equipment and pointed use of violence with high blood levels qualify" Scared "to be a Halloween party film par excellence."
Reviewer Dr. Phibes comes to a relatively positive impression in his review at OFDb. Apart from the shortcomings at the beginning and the end, Scared is “a really nice and very entertaining splatter film [...], which copies umpteen scenes from other models, but does it relatively convincingly. In addition, there are sometimes quite brutal and bloody FX that you would not really suspect in a Thai film. "
The surprising reveal at the end of the film received negative comments from many reviewers. Janosch Leuffen also complains at blairwitch.de “logic holes en masse” and “the usual (apparently) unavoidable horror clichés”, but comes to the conclusion that the film “[a] ls fun splatter for in between [...] works very well.
Björn Becher criticizes filmstarts.de for the fact that the director cannot decide “whether he wants to create a creepy atmosphere or rather has a fun splatter in mind. After all, the film offers neither of them fully satisfactory and certainly not a successful mix. To create a creepy atmosphere correctly, he too often falls back into the same standard scenes. The moments that turn "Scared" into a fun splatter for a short time [...] are far too rare to drag the film into this genre. "
Web links
- Scared - Endstation bloodbath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Scared - the end of the line bloodbath in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Seidl: Scared - end of the line blood bath. worldofmovies.net, accessed August 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Scared - end of the line blood bath. (No longer available online.) Video.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 30, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dr. Phibes: Scared (2005). OFDb, October 28, 2006, accessed August 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Janosch Leuffen: How many do you think will die? blairwitch.de, accessed on August 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Björn Becher: Scared> Film Starts Criticism. filmstarts.de, accessed on August 30, 2010 .
