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999-9999
PLOT
A new girl has just transferred to a school after the death of a girl
at her last school. When a couple of friends start investigating the
case, they find out about the number 999-9999. If you call this number
after midnight, you will get anything you ask for... in exchange for
something. But as the friends start making their wishes, they start
dropping dead after every wish have been granted. How can the evil
phone number be stopped, and who or what is it really that's granting
their wishes?
REVIEW
This is Thailand’s take on Final Destination. The opening scene is quite
tame showing us a girl hung in a flagpole and not much else so you kind
of get the feeling that this will be one of those cheesy Asian horror-
comedies, which I have grown so sick off. After 10 minutes into the movie
we still get the feeling that this will turn out to be more of a comedy
since there are a few things that are just plain silly. But once you've
crossed the 15min mark, it gets interesting. This is just as good as both
of the two Final Destination movies that USA has produced, just that it
has no big accident in the beginning and I love the airplane explosion
and the traffic jam scenes from the Final Destination movies so it doesn't
measure up completely with Final Destination.
The director sure knows what he's doing even if his name isn't listed on
imdb?? I thought the directing was clever and used many nice angles and
flaws are hard to find. The acting is also good for being a slashermovie
like it is. The acting has been much worse in many other new lowbudget Thai
slashers that I have seen so this was a nice surprise. Meanwhile, the
special effects are quite bad, many scenes look much too computer made
so that was a major turnoff.
I had never heard of this movie before so I was happy when I came across
this new Asian slashermovie. While not being very original at all and
many might also feel as if it's a 976-EVIL rip-off, you have to remember
that 976-EVIL was made back in the 80's and my opinion is that if a story
or a "thing" hasn't been used in a horrormovie since the 80's, it's
original and creative. The ending was the main thing that bothered me
about it, some of it was very predictable, even if one scene totally
blew me away and took me by surprise, I still think they could've managed
it better. The ending wasn't just predictable, it was also way too drawn
out and it just felt very uninteresting, I guess that's what happens when
you try to make a 2 hour-long slashermovie.
GORE
Well it certainly doesn't lack of gore. A girl is impaled at the top of
a flagpole. One gets a big pipe impaled through the stomach, leaving guts
and the heart in the pipe opening. One gets a very gory and drawn-out throat
slashing. One person gets the head cut in half and loses the hand, though
this scene looks incredibly computer made and it felt more as if I was watching
a Japanese animated movie than anything else. Then a guy gets the guts ripped
out with help from some broken glass and one gets razorblades sliced all over
the skin... mmm... yummy.
SOUNDTRACK
Not many of these tracks include any vocals, mainly its just background
music that you don't even notice. Some cool rock music and some drum music
is mainly what the soundtrack here consists of but we also get a very cool
guitar/choir version of O'Fortuna. Nice.
BOTTOM LINE
Pretty cool Thai Final Destination copycat, which certainly deserves some
credit for having a fair amount of gore and many cool death scenes.
The movie itself is pretty unpredictable, apart from the ending. I thought
this was a very watchable movie even if there are many other Asian slashers
that deserve more credit than this. Good movie though, check it out if you
ever get the chance.
Review
By: AnthroFred
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