Audiences, too, might feel the same way.Ī strange thing then occurs, and the heart of Ghost Lab becomes clear. After weeks of failed developments on their Northern Lights Project– the name given to their ghost-hunting experiment they intend to submit to world-renowned journal (I kid you not), “The Experiment”)– the Warren-wannabes nearly give up. Though they remain a constant presence, Wee and Gla are suddenly incapable of seeing them. Though bafflingly arbitrary, the ghosts soon stop appearing. Conjuring-lite scares merge with a heaping pile of sitcom humor, and in the early goings, the two-hour runtime feels more like a threat, less like a promise. The ghosts they encounter are loud, crispy, and evinced in music-video style quick cuts and lustrous lighting.
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The first third of the movie is a slapdash, Flatliners retread, minus all the nuance and Hollywood star power but with considerably more ghostly shenanigans. He works alongside the sprightly Gla (Paris Intarakomalyasut), another doctor rendered in similar uncertainty– Gla is preeminently obsessed with the existence of ghosts because… he thinks he may have seen one once? The two of them, ostensibly the only two doctors in a hospital that apparently only treats Wee’s mother, play Ghost Hunters: Thailand Edition, skulking about the dark, narrow corridors of Ratanarj hospital, scouring its halls and empty rooms for ghosts. Thanapob Leeratanakachorn stars as Wee, a dour shell of a man driven to medicine on account of his mother’s nebulously defined chronic illness. With three credited writers, Ghost Lab is a trilogy unto itself, a haunted hospital where, one imagines, no ghosts were turned away. It’s fitting, then, that the spirit of Ghost Lab itself is so beholden to the arbitrary, pseudo-scientific constraints of its titular entities. The spirits of Paween Purijitpanya’s Ghost Lab are obstinate, hazy, unclear, and wildly, distressingly discordant.
The thrust of Netflix’s newest original Thai horror movie involves ghosts that simply do not want to be seen.
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