Body is loosely based on a true story about a doctor who murders his wife, also a doctor. With surgical skill, he cuts the body in pieces and deposits it in various toilets. In fact the film is about what happens afterwards. About the chopped-up deceased who seeks her way back from the world of the dead to take her revenge on the living doctor. A young man, Chon, becomes the chance vehicle of the vengeful spirit. Through his dreams and nightmares, the female spirit seeks a way out. Chon is staying with his sister, who rents a room in the house of a doctor. It takes a while before he realises that the spirit is really looking for someone else.
Body is an obvious genre film with the tension of the thriller added to the horror theme. The setting in the world of medicine and hospitals makes it possible to add many medical and psychiatric elements to the story. In the end the logic of horror clearly defeats medical science.
The film is among the better of its kind and is striking work by a young director. Paween Purijitpanya is one of the emerging names in the Thai horror industry. He also made one of the four parts in the successful 4BIA that is also included in this programme. (GjZ)
Film details
- Country of production
- Thailand
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 121"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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