Unfriended
What ever happened to the good ol’ Freddy Kreuger and Michael Meyers? Lately, horror movies have been taking questionable approaches to the genre. For example, these filmmakers thought putting Skype into their film would make it cooler.
“Unfriended” opens with the suicide of high schooler Laura Barns, who offs herself because a friend posted an embarrassing video of her online. When a group of friends decide to group Skype call one day, they find a mysterious person appears in their conversation. Supernatural things happen to them during the Skype call and they believe that their call is being haunted by the ghost of Laura Barns. So you’ve got a movie where the antagonist is a ghost using Skype. That should be enough to decide if this movie’s worth watching or not.
Song of the Sea
Now I usually don’t really watch animated films, but this one looks promising. We don’t really see 2D animation anymore, but “Song of the Sea” seems to do it justice, well in the trailer at least.
Based off Irish/Scottish Folklore, the main character Saoirse is a descendent of the “selkies.” Selkies are mythical creatures who transform from seals into human beings, kind of like a mermaid. Saoirse goes on some sort of soul-searching quest to free her seal friends from the curse.
Tomorrowland
“Haunted House” was a flop, but “Pirates of the Caribbean” brought Disney all the gold of the Spanish Main. Now they’ll try the ride-based film thing again with “Tomorrowland,” a movie about an enigmatic place that can only be reached by holding a coin with the letter “T” on it. Tomorrowland is where all the world’s changemakers happen to be and labor to make Earth free of violence and terror. If I was still 10, I’d probably really enjoy this movie. But I’m not anymore, so I probably won’t bother watching this movie after watching the cringey trailer.
Pa Happy (Happy Auntie)
With a life slogan of “I’m happy”, this twentysomething-looking “auntie” is living her life to the fullest. All in one day she’s fired from her job, found out the guy she likes has a girlfriend, and is diagnosed with a heart disease and will probably die in a month. This prompts her to do weird things like dance and sing in public. I mean, YOLO, right?
This comedy or whatever genre seems to be the typical Thai industry offering that most everyone doesn’t end up watching anyway. Sorry but this doesn’t look like another “Pee Mak Phra Khanong”-level movie.
A Little Chaos
Nothing says fabulous more than a bunch of old men with luscious, curly, long hair.
Set in the Victorian Era, “A Little Chaos” is your average romance movie. Two landscape artists happen fall in love with each other while building a garden for King Louis XIV’s palace in Versailles. So two people meet each other on the job. Sounds pretty normal. Well, beside the fact this movie takes place in the past, of course.
