Chum thaang rot fai phii

There's nothing in particular to recommend this movie. The story is minuscule, the special effects ridiculous, the acting consistently over the top. The ending doesn't come close to being coherent. It's a major mess. Choo choo.

Everyone tries super hard in this film and I'm amazed the producers could make anything for the the peanuts spent on it. Sadly all the enthusiasm amounts to a paper thin mess. By the way this was my first Thai horror.

Transparent as a window, effects like a drunk first-year student, and yet! And yet! In the first three minutes we had this pegged as a B-movie, and yet the characters were so amusing I actually wondered, not what would happen, but how it would happen. The ghost-seeing druggie was particularly interesting. And remarkably progressive: the girls are pretty but don't get undressed or sexualised and there's an openly gay character whose sexuality is rarely mentioned, but more importantly wasn't a crime. To try to explain the plot would be pointless: if you want good effects, exciting fight scenes, and a complex plot, this not it. But if you enjoy a top-notch movie so bad you can't help but laugh, this is the one. Oh, and on Netflix, it's "the train of the dead". Good times.

Oh dear, my bad experiences with Thai cinema continue.

By the title you'd likely assume a zombie feature but no here we have something altogether different and I'm left thinking a zombie movie would have been more preferable.

It tells the story of a gang who botch their escape from a bank robbery. Taking a young hostage they flee on the first train they see only to question what they've gotten themselves into. Yes that's right this is a ghost themed film.

The start was actually very hopeful it managed to get my attention, had a great soundtrack and I liked the idea of a haunted train. Sadly it goes downhill fast after around the first third for a whole host of reasons.

For a start the tone is off, this is not supposed to be a comedy yet we have one outright comedy character and several others too goofy too be taken seriously. Then lets talk about the sfx, yikes! They're really bad, highly amateurish stuff which goes hand in hand with the dreadful camera quality which goes grainy whenever things get dark (Which is frequent).

So it looks terrible, the tone is all over the place and the plot? Disjointed and gradually it makes less and less sense the more it's explained (Somehow!).

Alas it doesn't find its feet again, it gets gradually more and more confusing until the very underwhelming finale.

I went into this with high hopes about the concept and fingers crossed that Thai cinema would surprise me for a change. I expected SO much more.

The Good:

Starts strong

Interesting idea

The Bad:

Poor camera quality

Weirdly imbalanced tone

Weak CGI

Ridiculous fight scenes

Not at all what I thought it was going to be according to the description. There must have been quite a bit of lost in translation for half the stuff the character said did not make sense in English. I just wonder if this was a bad movie in Thailand I think it was made, or if it was just bad in English.