Finally, the English friendly subtitle DVD for the best Thailand this year, "Phobia" aka "4bia" is out. Becoming number one hit when it first released in many Asian countries, this horror film created by four acclaimed director of the country is totally one package that can't be miss out.
What happen when you watch a film that was made by three young masters in horror movie and one veteran director who can be called as the mentor to those three? Well, absolutely you can get a foursome chill and thrill just as what you are able to get in this four 25-minute horror segments that working together to create a package of “Crash”-a-like in a horror film. Come out from Thailand, the original title of the film is “See Prang” (literally "four crossroads"), but in English, this four-segment horror film is being promoted as 4bia, or “Phobia”. Each of the segments is directed by one of Thailand up-and-coming masters of modern horror movies which are Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, the young Thai directors of the original version of “Shutter” and the currently being remade “Alone”, Paween Purijitpanya, who did the slick and bloody “Body #19”, and, for the first time tackling horror, veteran director (and a mentor to the three young filmmakers), Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, director of the international smash hit gay volleyball comedy, “Iron Ladies”. About Banjong and Parkpoom itself is what they’ve done this time is direct separately for the first time in their career, just as you can guess that each of them are contributing one segment to this four part Thai horror anthology. But unlike other Asian horror anthologies, such as “Three”, which was also initiated by Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr, with vastly different parts that compete against each other, the four segments of “Phobia” work together as a package, and even reference one another. Here's a look at each segment that will dealing with a different kind of fear.
An unemployed, broken-hearted, desperate young woman, Pin (Maneerat Kham-uan), has a broken leg and is left alone in her apartment on the top floor of a soiled building. Unable to move around, and with no friends nearby, she clings tightly to her pink Motorola flip phone and relies on SMS to communicate with the one apparent friend she has. She then receives an SMS from a stranger, who persists in sending her messages even though she at first ignores them. Lonely, she gives in to temptation and strikes up an SMS chat session with the person, who turns out to be a guy and also the one that she will be regret it after finding out who he is. The story begins to getting up its tense as the identity of the mysterious one is slowly revealed through a series of increasingly intimidating messages. “Loneliness” is somewhat success to pulling off a grand experiment that serves as a great beginning to the foursome of fear.
When a group of bullying youths have been busted for smoking pot, they blame a little kid for stealing on them. Some of the boys then bundle the kid and his bicycle into the back of their pickup and beat on him while they are going down the road. The violence escalates with horrible consequences. Only one of the kids, one of the two girls (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), voices any concern. Then what turns out is, that the little kid who wants to take revenge on them is into black magic, and he has a cursed manuscript -- a diploma of death that if people read them, they will meet whatever grisly end is spelled out for them.
This is a tale of four best friends going camping in the remote jungle and they are bedded down for the night in their tent sharing ghost stories along the way. Their chitchat is self-referential, with one of the guys revealing himself to be a serial spoiler of movies, and right there he gives away the ending to “Shutter”. He also decries the horror films that all have female ghost with long black hair. "Can't they do something new?" he asks. They also argue over who gets to sleep in the middle of the tent. They have scared one another into believing that a ghost will haunt whoever sleeps on the end. To shut them up, the guy sleeping furthest away, Aye, says “If I die, I’ll come back and haunt who ever sleeps in the middle first.". The next day, while whitewater rafting, the boat overturns and Aye is the one who doesn't make it.
Terror is waiting for one unlucky air hostesses, who will face this alone.
An airline is on a charter flight for the Princess of Khurkistan. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragically more turbulent when the princess dies due to an allergic reaction to something she ate. The royal house of Khurkistan requests that her body be sent back immediately for royal cremation. The airline schedules flight attendant Pim (Chermarn Boonyasak) for the flight, on which the only other passenger will be the corpse of the princess. This chapter presents the mixture of phobia. It’s an inappropriate flight for anyone with claustrophobia, nyctophobia, fear of noise, fear of air pressure, and fear of corpses.
Product Title: 4 Bia (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Language: Thai, Cantonese
Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, English, Simplified Chinese
Picture Format: NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Sound Information: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Digital Surround, DTS Extended Surround(TM) / DTS-ES(TM)
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan)
Duration: 111 (mins)
Publisher: Kam & Ronson Enterprises Co Ltd
Special Features:
- Behind the scenes
- Deleted scenes
- Music MV
- Trailer
Release Date: 2008-12-12(Save your copy)
What happen when you watch a film that was made by three young masters in horror movie and one veteran director who can be called as the mentor to those three? Well, absolutely you can get a foursome chill and thrill just as what you are able to get in this four 25-minute horror segments that working together to create a package of “Crash”-a-like in a horror film. Come out from Thailand, the original title of the film is “See Prang” (literally "four crossroads"), but in English, this four-segment horror film is being promoted as 4bia, or “Phobia”. Each of the segments is directed by one of Thailand up-and-coming masters of modern horror movies which are Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, the young Thai directors of the original version of “Shutter” and the currently being remade “Alone”, Paween Purijitpanya, who did the slick and bloody “Body #19”, and, for the first time tackling horror, veteran director (and a mentor to the three young filmmakers), Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, director of the international smash hit gay volleyball comedy, “Iron Ladies”. About Banjong and Parkpoom itself is what they’ve done this time is direct separately for the first time in their career, just as you can guess that each of them are contributing one segment to this four part Thai horror anthology. But unlike other Asian horror anthologies, such as “Three”, which was also initiated by Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr, with vastly different parts that compete against each other, the four segments of “Phobia” work together as a package, and even reference one another. Here's a look at each segment that will dealing with a different kind of fear.
An unemployed, broken-hearted, desperate young woman, Pin (Maneerat Kham-uan), has a broken leg and is left alone in her apartment on the top floor of a soiled building. Unable to move around, and with no friends nearby, she clings tightly to her pink Motorola flip phone and relies on SMS to communicate with the one apparent friend she has. She then receives an SMS from a stranger, who persists in sending her messages even though she at first ignores them. Lonely, she gives in to temptation and strikes up an SMS chat session with the person, who turns out to be a guy and also the one that she will be regret it after finding out who he is. The story begins to getting up its tense as the identity of the mysterious one is slowly revealed through a series of increasingly intimidating messages. “Loneliness” is somewhat success to pulling off a grand experiment that serves as a great beginning to the foursome of fear.
When a group of bullying youths have been busted for smoking pot, they blame a little kid for stealing on them. Some of the boys then bundle the kid and his bicycle into the back of their pickup and beat on him while they are going down the road. The violence escalates with horrible consequences. Only one of the kids, one of the two girls (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), voices any concern. Then what turns out is, that the little kid who wants to take revenge on them is into black magic, and he has a cursed manuscript -- a diploma of death that if people read them, they will meet whatever grisly end is spelled out for them.
This is a tale of four best friends going camping in the remote jungle and they are bedded down for the night in their tent sharing ghost stories along the way. Their chitchat is self-referential, with one of the guys revealing himself to be a serial spoiler of movies, and right there he gives away the ending to “Shutter”. He also decries the horror films that all have female ghost with long black hair. "Can't they do something new?" he asks. They also argue over who gets to sleep in the middle of the tent. They have scared one another into believing that a ghost will haunt whoever sleeps on the end. To shut them up, the guy sleeping furthest away, Aye, says “If I die, I’ll come back and haunt who ever sleeps in the middle first.". The next day, while whitewater rafting, the boat overturns and Aye is the one who doesn't make it.
Terror is waiting for one unlucky air hostesses, who will face this alone.
An airline is on a charter flight for the Princess of Khurkistan. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragically more turbulent when the princess dies due to an allergic reaction to something she ate. The royal house of Khurkistan requests that her body be sent back immediately for royal cremation. The airline schedules flight attendant Pim (Chermarn Boonyasak) for the flight, on which the only other passenger will be the corpse of the princess. This chapter presents the mixture of phobia. It’s an inappropriate flight for anyone with claustrophobia, nyctophobia, fear of noise, fear of air pressure, and fear of corpses.
Product Title: 4 Bia (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Language: Thai, Cantonese
Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, English, Simplified Chinese
Picture Format: NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Sound Information: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Digital Surround, DTS Extended Surround(TM) / DTS-ES(TM)
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan)
Duration: 111 (mins)
Publisher: Kam & Ronson Enterprises Co Ltd
Special Features:
- Behind the scenes
- Deleted scenes
- Music MV
- Trailer
Release Date: 2008-12-12(Save your copy)
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