The Maid

Right, well I must say that when I stumbled upon the 2020 Thai horror movie "The Maid", of course there was no doubt about me having to sit down to watch it. I do enjoy horror movie and Asian cinema quite a lot.

And while "The Maid" definitely was watchable, it was just a movie that was all over the place and left too many unanswered questions. So I have to say that what writers Lee Thongkham and Piyaluk Tuntisrisakul were thinking here when they concocted the script for "The Maid", well that is just somewhat beyond me.

The movie starts out well enough, promising to be a regular and good old fashioned horror movie. Sure, you have your obligatory jump scares and semi-typical Asian ghost wandering around. But then the movie takes two turns along the way, and not necessarily for the better.

Now, the whole thing with the monkey just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. That is something that just went above and beyond my comprehension. Especially since it served no particular purpose to the movie, aside from adding a bit of confusion and bizarre feel to the story.

And the movie does take a strange turn from being a supernatural horror movie to becoming a downright blood-soaked slasher movie, for better or worse. Sure, I enjoyed this particular change of events, but in the contents of the story and the narrative, then it was a very strange and very sudden change.

I will say that I do like the story. There are some very nice elements to the storyline, despite of it being flawed and feeling like it was all over the place.

The acting in the movie was good, and they had some good acting talents to star in the movie to portray the characters in the storyline. Ploy Sornarin (playing Joy), Savika Chaiyade (playing Uma) and Kannaporn Puangtong (playing Ploy) definitely carried the movie rather well.

Visually then "The Maid" had some good things going on. It was rather nicely filmed and had a very aesthetic feel to it. The props and costumes were good, and it felt like you were right there alongside the cast most of the time. And the special effects - mostly the blood and gore - were definitely pleasing to an old gorehound such as myself.

"The Maid" feels like director Lee Thongkham's attempt to throw a couple of different genres together and mashing it up for the ultimate horror movie. But it just didn't really work out all that great in favor of the movie.

I am rating "The Maid" a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. Had the movie been kept to one path and one genre, instead of being all over the place and at times making very little or no sense, then the movie would have been rated higher. "The Maid" is definitely watchable, but it was by no means a grand moment in Thai horror cinema.

The film is divided into three chapters. Every chapter has its own revelation by the end of each chapter. Though the plot is predictable and quite cliche, the execution is really good. From character introduction to character development/build up until revelation.

I'm not sure why this film is really good. If it's because it's a Netflix original film or it's from Thailand. Thailand's cinema is really improving a lot especially in horror genre, they're next to South Korea & Japan who's really good in horror films.

Overall, movie is way beyond good. Entertaining to watch from beginning til the end.

In 2020's "The Maid" we are introduced to a young maid that is being haunted by a spirit in her new workplace. She keeps seeing this spirit in form of another maid which is mostly shown through cheap jump scares and small cuts of her running around or just standing in the corner. There's also an intro sequence with a monkey doll that absolutely made no sense and therefore was completely unnecessary. The overall effects looked decent and the acting was fine but the movie borrows lots of scenes from other movies and therefore is unable to tell an original story on its own without relying on generic sequences. It is pretty clear that something happened to this other maid who is now is spirit and our protagonist is starting to uncover the truth. This is the premise that has been done before by multiple movies and this flick doesn't add anything remarkable. Towards the end the movie shifts and I think that is the strongest aspect the movie has. The ending is rather large scaled compared to the rest and almost goes a little over the top which I genuinely liked. The whole movie is divided into three nameless chapters but only one of them is really enjoyable. Overall I think it was an average flick with not much to show but definitely able to pass some time. [5,2/10]

I like everything, the plot, the jumpscare, the background story, the plot twists!! the only problem is that i don't understand what the monkeys mean... i waited till the end thinking it has some correlations but it didn't.... regardless i still like it! a good horror/thriller movie!

Feel it would be bad ending when watch the first 30 mins. But it wasn't the way I expected, quite unusual indeed.