From filmstalker, There's a trailer online for a Thai horror film called The Coffin which is inspired by the real life ritual of Thai people that in order to ward off bad luck and prolong life, they get themselves into a coffin.
Yeah, that's what I thought, sounds crazy. Just wait until you see the trailer, it's more than crazy, it's positively frightening.
You can see the trailer below through Twitch. The Coffin comes from Ekachai Uekrongtham and stars Karen Mok, Ananda Everingham, and Andrew Lin. See what you think, but even looking at the trailer it seems to blow most of the western horrors right out of the water - Saw teaser? Yeah, right, this laughs in the face of such horrors.
See creepy trailer here
3 comments:
Now that one looks right up my alley. I do so love a good Asian horror, they just seem to have that creep factor down so well.
I agree, although I didn't really get anything too special off this trailer. Looks like it might be a little unfocused.
Do they actually nail the coffins shut during the real ritual? That's kinda spooky.
No Octo they don't nail it shut, in fact they don't even shut it all the way.
Here is what I found:
“The practice evolved when donors wrote down ‘I want to transfer the good karma I’ve accumulated (from buying a coffin) to my loved one who has passed away’ on a piece of paper and pasted it on the coffin that they had bought,” he explained.
In the last few years, the ritual took a bizarre turn when donors lie in the coffin (with its lid shut but not completely so that they could breathe) while a group of monks performed death rites on them as if they were dead. And when the donor rose from the coffin the monk read a chant of new life.
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