Tag: banjongpisanthanakun

A documentary team follows Nim, a shaman based in Northern Thailand, the Isan area, and encounters her niece Mink showing strange symptoms that seem to be of inheritance of shamanism. The team decides to follow Mink, hoping to capture the...

Thai director Banjong Pisanthanakun - co-director of Shutter and Alone, solo contributor to both Phobia horror anthology projects and helmer of the hysterical N Is For Nuptials segment in The ABCs of Death - is hard at work on his...

[The first 4Bia anthology set was a surprise and a delight at Toronto After Dark several years ago, and they kindly bring the second (and even better) collection of Twilight Zone-y goodness to this years festival.  Be sure to attend,...

[Many thanks to Mathieu Li-Goyette of Panorama Cinema for the following review, and to Maude Michaud for the translation.]Two years ago, four Thai filmmakers, masters of Thai-horror, scared festival goers with 4BIA.  This time, Wongpoom and Pisanthanakun, the team behind...

Phobia, the Thai anthology from a few years back was a very pleasant surprise, four well produced tales of things that go bump in the night, more or less moulded on old twilight zone motifs, but with a distinctly modern...

[Niels' review of Thai Horror Anthology, PHOBIA 2 is getting a bump back up to the top of the page to coincide with its  screening at Fantasia.]Thai horror is doing good for itself. Proof of that is the second installment...

Thai horror is doing good for itself. Proof of that is the second installment of the Phobia anthology project. This time around 5 directors get the chance to show their skills in a set of horror-themed shorts. Three of the...

Horror anthologies are notoriously uneven affairs, typically ill-matched collections of low budget efforts from little known talent trying to make a name for themselves with a quick scare or two.  Such was very definitely not the case with Thai horror...