Best friends Pai (Potchamon Sansanor), Tum (Rattapol Tipthara), Nuna
(Solaya Chankete) and Supon (Suwanon Suriyawong) go on a field trip of
their school's filmclub, even though Nuna has just been told she's going
to die in the next couple of days by a fortune teller - which leaves her
kind of worried ... but then again, Man (Hussapol Kongsip) has been
organizing the trip, the one student all girls fall for, and he has the
hots for Nuna ... To cut a looooong
story short, once the students are at their destination out in the jungle
in the middle of nowhere, a masked killer is slaughtering them off by the
dozen, including Man - fittingly enough while he's making out with a girl
(Chayanan Artpru) -, Nuna and Supon. Only Pai and Tum, the last two
survivors, somehow manage to put up a fight, run the killer over by car
repeatedly, and ultimately, Pai brutally stabs him to Kingdom Come. But who's the
killer? To nobody's real surprise it turns out to be mild-mannered
teacher Wiwat (Khemakarn Yennoom), who has been mistreated by his
stepfather (Tanapol Juksida) when he was a child (and played by Polrit
Kleawtanong), and something about the fieldtrip triggered the memory and
set off sort of an avalanche of violence ... I give this film
that much: The finale is pretty well-crafted (if not particularly inventive),
and the jungle settings carry the film's mood quite well ... The rest of the
movie though is forgettable as can be, starting with its build-up: Scream
actually wastes an hour to set up all of its characters in some pointless
highschool comedy/drama, only to have them killed off in about half the
time rather indiscriminately. Add to this several subplots that simply
vanish into thin air once the killing starts, a less than impressive cast
and an extremely predictable solution to the whodunnit aspects of the
story, and you are left with one slasher you would have rather not watched
...
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