The House
2012 Dir. Monthon Arayangkoon While Thai horror cinema doesn’t quite wield the legacy or prolific output as its other Asian counterparts, such as Korean or Japanese horror, a recent emergence of fright flicks from the burgeoning film industry has included a number of memorable titles such as Shutter, 4bia , Meat Grinder , Sick Nurses and The Victim – not forgetting of course the moody The Eye films. The House is the latest edition to this strikingly eclectic fold and it boasts the same unique tone and idiosyncrasies as its creepy peers. The serpentine story coils around investigative journalist Shalinee (Inthira Chaloenpura) who is commissioned to make a documentary about several doctors who brutally murdered their wives. As her snooping continues, she uncovers some odd connections and similarities between the killings, including the sinister fact that throughout the years, all the murderous doctors had at one time or another lived in the same house near the hospital. Despite