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A group of youngsters watch a meteor shower, & see one of the meteor's
crash into a castle nearby. The next day, when they go look for the crashed
castle, they find a murdered man lieing in front of it. They report it to the
police & are held for questioning by inspector Pichit (Sira Pathrat) for a
full four hours.
So far so good, & in fact, so normal, too. But when they return to the
crash site they find the army securing the area, & only because one of our
youngsters, Doc (Cholrada Mekratri), is the daughter of the general (Nivait
Kanthairath) are they not taken into custoda, instead they are given a madman,
possibly the killer, to bring to the police for questioning.
At the police station, Pichit & Doc question the man but he goes insane
& has to be shot. Now everybody decides to go to the jungle to look for
clues, & the inspector seems more than happy to take the youngsters with
him.
They seem to be not alone in the jungle though, since a battallion of
soldiers roam the woods too, as well as a group of armed men from the sinister
nearby research centre, led by doctor Mun (Khowit Wattanakul), & soon it
becomes clear they hunt for monsters ... might it be aliens from the meteor,
one wonders (well, not really, when there's a sinister research centre
around, it's a pretty safe bet where the monsters come from.
So after much playing tag in the woods, Pichit & Doc decide to pay the
research centre a little visit ... & of course, they find monsters galore
there, obviously part of an illegal cloning & crossbreeding experiment, but
they are soon captured by doctor Mun & his bitchy female colleague doctor
Vitrasini (Suthita Ketanont).
Of course Pichit & Doc eventually break free, but at the worst possible
moment, since by now pretty much all the monsters have decided to go wild,
break out & wreak havoc ... our heroes escape nevertheless of course, &
while fleeing they stumble over 2 benign clone creatures ...
Later, Doc learns her father the general has had a heart failure & needs
a new heart, /& while she would gladly give hers she refuses to take one
from the clone creatures who were originally only created for that purpose ...
which leads to her & Pichit looking for the benign creatures, & their
search leads to a Buddhist monk (of course), who fills them in on some of the
backgrounds of the story: Doctor Mun & doctor Vitrasini have created clones
to make a business out of dealing with human organs, but evil old hag Yaithong
(Phimpan Bhurananaphimp) has brought them under her spell with some evil voodoo
& now has them lead a rebellion against their creators, & somehow our
benign creatures got caught in the middle of it.
In the finale, Yaithong seems to win the upper hand when she captures
Doctors Mun & Vitrasini as well as Pichit & Doc & wants the former
to zombiefy the latter, but then the clone creatures under her spell grow too
much even for her, & soon enough everybody is at everybody else's throat,
with all the baddies & bad creatures gunned down, blown up or buried under
rubble of a collapsing building in the end, but also on e of the benign
creatures gunned down, while all the good guys survive. & even thew general
gets a new heart when the one surviving benign creature agrees to sacrifice
himself ...
A wild mix of elements from the teen-slasher genre, 1950's science fiction, Predator,
Frankenstein & H.G.Welles Island of Dr Moreau, to name just a
few ... & for some reason it doesn't work at all.
The main reasons might be that the plot is just too clichéd & formulaic
for its own good (even though - as noted above - the film has a wide array of
sources to choose from), the characters seriously lack any motivation (why does
Doc always have to get in the middle of it, why does she have to find the
benign creatures when her father needs a new heart, & why does Doctor
Vitrasini have to go skinnydipping in front of her whole staff to bait her
creatures), & most of the plottwists that should keep the story going are
heralded so much in advance that once they are there you hardly notice them
anymore (like when its revealed the creatures are not aliens but clones from a
sinister research centre). & above all, how do the youngsters manage to
stroll through the woods unscathed while heavily armed troops get torn apart
when trying the same ?
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