
Well, well, this particular collaboration continues to bear some very striking fruit. Beyond the fact that both directors make films for Thailand's Five Star Entertainment, Wisit Sasanatieng and Kongkiat Komesiri wouldn't appear to have much in common. Sasanatieng burst on to the scene with his technicolor western Tears of the Black Tiger before cementing his reputation with his whimsical fantasy romance Citizen Dog. Komesiri? He arrived as part of the Ronin Team, the group of extreme film makers behind the ultra-gory Art of the Devil films befoire branching out somewhat with martial arts drama Muay Thai Chaiya. And here's where things get interesting ... somewhere between Art of the Devil 2 and Muay Thai Chaiya Komesiri and Sasanatieng met and became friends and have been collaborating ever since. Sasanatieng served as art director for Chaiya, a favor Komesiri returned by writing ghost story The Unseeable for Sasanatieng to direct. And now Sasanatieng has written horror-thriller Slice for Komesiri.
An equal fusion of gore and police procedural, Slice looks likely to draw comparisons to The Silence of the Lambs for its fusion of influences and refusal to shy away from the hard stuff. The story revolves around a serial killer who preys primarily on men, slicing and dismembering their bodies. The police are at a loss as to how to catch him and eventually turn to a former hitman turned informant, enlisting his help to do the job for them. We've been very eagerly tracking this one for a good long time and now we've been rewarded with the very first teaser. Check it out below the break!

This has some potential with me. Has anyone seen it? Is this one of those movies that some people see like a year before I've even known it exists?
They just finished shooting. Thai release scheduled for October.
On a completely unrelated note, for the Wisit fans in the DC area, they're showing "Tears of the Black Tiger" at the Freer-Sackler Smithsonian Gallery tomorrow night at 7:00 PM (free). Figure it's the only chance I'll ever have to catch this on the big screen.
visually looks interesting. subject matter is a bit tired, but, given the hitman turned informant angle it could work in an odd chaser sort of spin.
really enjoyed the unseeable. was a complete throwback to old school haunted house/ghost films.