Now, Thai horror isn’t exactly something I hear a lot out of. Oh, sure, Japanese horror has been huge for years, and the Koreans can generally toss one together. The Chinese now officially despise it, and I’ve even caught a Malaysian film or two. Which is why I was so interested to hear about The Coffin, a Thai film about a strange ritual used to ward off bad luck.

In a move to cheat death, apparently the Thai have been known to lay in coffins for a little while. In The Coffin, a man and a woman try this ritual out, only to face a serious of inexplicable—and horrifying—incidents afterward. Oh, sure, some make the case that it’s about the beauty of life and death and suchlike but it sounds like it might manage to pack in some halfway decent scares, which has me interested. Of course, people may be slapping up the metaphysical metaphorical labels due to who’s got the director’s slot—the former director of Beautiful Boxer. Interestingly, there’s another film of the same name due to be released Halloween in the United States, which makes me wonder if there’ll be a lot of confusion between the two. But until then, there’s plenty of the regular variety to be had on Kwanzoo’s horror movie trivia.

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