Website And Trailer For Thai Horror BODY

Playing a little bit of post-TIFF catch up with each of the next three posts, all pointing to trailers for new Asian genre pics.  Up first is Body, the new Thai horror film from GMM Tai Hub, the same production house behind Dorm, Shutter and Alone.  GMM aren’t the biggest or most prolific house in Thailand but they are clearly one of the best, taking their time on each project and making sure their scripts work well before laying on the blood, and as a result they have a string of truly top notch titles to their credit.  Here’s the synopsis on this one:

A human being contains 5 liters of blood, 6 pounds of skin, 206 bones, 600 muscles, and 35 million glands. It takes a human body more than 25 years of life to grow such things. But one man actually believes he can rid himself of every single piece of human flesh by just using scissors and a small surgical blade. And he is going to prove it. Chon, a med student, starts seeing a psychotherapist after he dreams about a woman who he had only met once in a restaurant.

In his dreams, a mysterious man murders her, slices her body into pieces, and flushes them down a toilet one by one. The murderous dreams haunt him into his waking memory, and eventually he feels as if his own body is being dissected and carved up by the surgical knife. Slowly, the terrifying images take control of him. He comes to believe that the dead woman is sending him messages through these nightmares. But these are not messages for him, they are meant for her murderer. They speak of revenge, and say: “I am still here.”

Production values on the trailer look fantastic and this one looks to be taking a slightly pulpier approach than the much more formal and classy recent outings from GMM, Dorm and Alone.  Should be a good time.