The rest of the film, then, deals with the fallout of this decision and strips away everything that was goofy and affable about the movie to that point, leaning hard into what one assumes are meant to be probing questions about death while varying wildly in tone and quality from scene to scene. Suffice to say that Wee and Gla opt for extreme measures, devising a dipshit experiment that’s wildly inadvisable, unethical, and nonsensical to anyone who takes the time to think about it for more than a moment.
While it’s difficult to discuss what happens without spoiling the mid-movie twist, as it’s so integral to the shift in tone, the thrill of discovery is the one thing Ghost Lab has going for it.
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These sequences are decidedly rote but mostly fun, playing like any number of found footage ghost stories in miniature, or even recalling the glut of ghost investigator TV series (like Discovery’s Ghost Lab, no relation).īut with little documentable phenomena on hand and a desire to classify the different sorts of ghosts and their behaviors, the doctors find themselves stuck and in need of a new methodology. To that end, they set out with handheld video cameras, exploring the hospital for signs of the paranormal. While their reactions to the apparition couldn’t be more different - Gla is overjoyed while Wee’s beliefs are shaken to the core - it’s not long before the pair have agreed to collaborate on a long experiment to prove the existence of ghosts.
At its outset, paranormal skeptic Wee and true believer Gla have an encounter with a ghost in the very haunted hospital in which they practice. That it does so by taking a hard turn toward the melodramatic with honestly brazen stupidity is almost beside the point because, while Ghost Lab is not especially good by most metrics, it is unpredictable and compellingly weird. Netflix will debut Ghost Lab streaming in Thailand and the US (and a few other countries) starting on May 26th, 2021 coming up.Ghost Lab works as a bit of weirdo fun for a while, but the film’s playful tone is obliterated halfway through and never recovers.Īt first glance, and indeed for about half of the film’s runtime, Ghost Lab appears to be a rather light horror-comedy about two doctors trying to make contact with the beyond, but it eventually gives way to something much stranger and harder to write off into a genre box. The screenplay is written by Vasudhorn Piyaromna, Paween Purijitpanya, and Tossaphon Riantong. Ghost Lab, also known as Phi Hxng Ptibatikar in Thai, is directed by the Thai filmmaker Paween Purijitpanya, of the film Body: Every Little Piece Will Return previously, as well as some horror anthology segments. Their fixation and reckless pursuit of knowledge will take them down a rabbit hole that will cost them their friendship and their loved ones. This encounter spawns an insatiable drive to find a scientific explanation for ghosts and to find proof of the afterlife. In this Thai horror film that marries science with the supernatural, an experiment about the afterlife goes awry when Gla and Wee, two medical doctor buddies see a 'ghost' with their own eyes for the first time. Here's the official Netflix trailer (+ poster) for Paween Purijitpanya's Ghost Lab, direct from YouTube: Glad it will be launching on Netflix soon. This is a cool concept (reminds me of Flatliners), especially from a Thai filmmaker, it feels like there's a whole different vibe to this than what we're used to with horror. Also starring Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich as Mai. Their fixation and reckless pursuit of unattainable knowledge will take them down a rabbit hole that might cost them their friendship, and their loved ones. The encounter spawns an insatiable desire to find a scientific explanation for ghostly spirits, and to find proof of the afterlife. Gla and Wee, played by Paris Intarakomalyasut and Thanapob Leeratanakajorn, two medical doctor buddies see a ‘ghost’ with their own eyes when an afterlife experiment goes wrong. After witnessing a haunting, two young doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist. "You aren't supposed to believe in these things." Netflix has debuted a new trailer for a ghost horror film from Thailand called Ghost Lab, streaming in the US and Thailand starting this May.
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