Thailand’s film censors have upset the release of local horror movie “Hoon Payon,” which should have arrived in cinemas pn Thursday.
The film had a successful world premiere screening on Tuesday at a gala in Bangkok. But censors have since intervened to demand five scenes be cut and to impose a 20+ rating on the Five Star Production picture.
The rating means that spectators must be age 20 or older, thus excluding the film’s key teenage demographic, and it obliges cinema operators to check the ID cards of all patrons.
The film’s story involves a man who travels to a village in a border region where his brother, a novice Buddhist monk, has been accused of murder. As more bodies pile up, the man questions the villagers’ blind faith in a supposedly protective doll or mannequin.
The scenes that have caused offense involve the fictional monk engaging in heated...
The film had a successful world premiere screening on Tuesday at a gala in Bangkok. But censors have since intervened to demand five scenes be cut and to impose a 20+ rating on the Five Star Production picture.
The rating means that spectators must be age 20 or older, thus excluding the film’s key teenage demographic, and it obliges cinema operators to check the ID cards of all patrons.
The film’s story involves a man who travels to a village in a border region where his brother, a novice Buddhist monk, has been accused of murder. As more bodies pile up, the man questions the villagers’ blind faith in a supposedly protective doll or mannequin.
The scenes that have caused offense involve the fictional monk engaging in heated...
- 3/10/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
‘Incantation’, ‘The Ancestral’ and ‘Pee Nak 3’ among titles.
Asian horror films Incantation, The Ancestral and Pee Nak 3 have screamed to the top of the box office in Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand respectively.
Kevin Ko’s found-footage horror Incantation has held the top spot at the Taiwanese box office for two consecutive weekends. Starring Tsai Hsuan-yen, the story follow a family who commit senseless acts of torture and violence against each other while seemingly being possessed by demons.
Distributed by Activator Marketing, the film took 799,000 (NT22.9m) on its opening weekend (March 18-20), followed by an unusual 45 increase on its second weekend.
Asian horror films Incantation, The Ancestral and Pee Nak 3 have screamed to the top of the box office in Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand respectively.
Kevin Ko’s found-footage horror Incantation has held the top spot at the Taiwanese box office for two consecutive weekends. Starring Tsai Hsuan-yen, the story follow a family who commit senseless acts of torture and violence against each other while seemingly being possessed by demons.
Distributed by Activator Marketing, the film took 799,000 (NT22.9m) on its opening weekend (March 18-20), followed by an unusual 45 increase on its second weekend.
- 4/1/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Bangkok-based Five Star Production has picked up international rights to biopic F.Hilaire, about a French priest who wrote a famous Thai language textbook.
Francois Touvenet Hilaire visited Thailand in the early 1900s and not only mastered the language but wrote the Darunsuksa textbook that is still used in Thailand today. Directed by Surussavadi Chuarchart, the film tells his story through a present-day teacher who is using the book and researchs Hilaire’s life for a Masters Degree.
Jason Young, a Bangkok-based actor who is fluent in Thai, plays Hilaire, while the teacher is played by Pharunyoo Rojanawuttitham (Still 2). The script was written by Chuarchart and Ek Iemchuen.
“We decided to distribute the film because we were impressed by the quality of the script and the acting. We’ve already had a lot of interest from Asian buyers,” said Five Star’s Amy Iamphungphorn.
Schedueld for Thai release in July, the project was produced by Bluering Company and Omac...
Francois Touvenet Hilaire visited Thailand in the early 1900s and not only mastered the language but wrote the Darunsuksa textbook that is still used in Thailand today. Directed by Surussavadi Chuarchart, the film tells his story through a present-day teacher who is using the book and researchs Hilaire’s life for a Masters Degree.
Jason Young, a Bangkok-based actor who is fluent in Thai, plays Hilaire, while the teacher is played by Pharunyoo Rojanawuttitham (Still 2). The script was written by Chuarchart and Ek Iemchuen.
“We decided to distribute the film because we were impressed by the quality of the script and the acting. We’ve already had a lot of interest from Asian buyers,” said Five Star’s Amy Iamphungphorn.
Schedueld for Thai release in July, the project was produced by Bluering Company and Omac...
- 5/15/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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