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Body #19 Movie Review
By Tinah | January 18, 2009
Body #19 is one of those must watch. If you haven’t seen it; I totally recommend it. The story has great twists. It’s not those average supernatural thriller. I give it 10/10! The acting is superb. Also you get to preview the acting of new comer Pae Arak who will be previewing in a lakorn with non other than the legendary Aum Patcharapa.
Here’s the plot:
Chon, a med student, starts seeing a psychotherapist after he dreams about a woman who he had only met once in a restaurant.
In his dreams, a mysterious man murders her, slices her body into pieces, and flushes them down a toilet one by one. The murderous dreams haunt him into his waking memory, and eventually he feels as if his own body is being dissected and carved up by the surgical knife. Slowly, the terrifying images take control of him. He comes to believe that the dead woman is sending him messages through these nightmares. But these are not messages for him, they are meant for her murderer. They speak of revenge, and say: “I am still here.”
I’ll say that this movie is awesome. I’ve read so many reviews on it and lots of them being bad. Most of those reviews are by westerners. I hate how westerners get to critique Asian Cinegraphy. Why? Because they give bias reviews towards the Western horror films in comparison to Asian horror film. I once read a review by someone who totally praised One Missed Call the American version and totally bashed the Asian version! Dude any movie lover would know that the Asian version was much better and the plot and storyline was constant where in the American version they totally added so much crap that the original movie didn’t have. All that crap NEVER ties into the movie either! My family and I totally loved Body #19. Even my 6 and 10 year old sisters found it entertaining. What we liked was that the story took a turn for the unexpected. If you play close attention to details you would totally be able to figure out and go OHHH in the ending of the movie. I urge that you DO NOT read any spoilers for the movies prior to watching it because it will totally ruin it for you.
Just to be clear my criticism on Western critics aren’t meant to be offensive. After being pointed out. I realized that I never went back to correct myself on that. I totally didn’t mean to be offensive and I do appreciate everyone’s opinion and review’s it’s just that I get kind of upset when I see 100 bias remarks against a perfectly beautiful work against a noticeable piece of crap; thus forgetting everyone’s opinion is different. Remember my blog is all fun and games. I may say things I don’t mean sometimes but I’ll always go back and correct myself when I feel better.
Topics: Movie Reviews | 10 Comments »
January 19th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
is this movie streaming online anywhere?
January 19th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
oh by the way, is it anything like “Sick nurses?” cause that movie is.. really sick! in a bad way.
January 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Haha nothing like that; Sick nurses was like a cheap college movie in my opinion. This movie is way better lol
January 20th, 2009 at 5:48 am
girl.. where can I watch this movie? If not online then do they have it in rental??
January 20th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
This person has it uploaded on their youtube channel
Link
The thing is they have parts 1-8 of it in a playlist but after that 9 -12 I think you have to go back to their channel and click on it because they didn’t add it into the playlist
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:03 am
thanks for the link. I think I will wait till daylight to watch it. I’m too scared. lol
March 29th, 2009 at 7:50 am
i lieked a lot.. buh i was confused with the sister.
i knew for sure that the mistress was Chon’s sister. But who was the girl at the courthouse–the one he was living with?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Don’t be too harsh on ALL Western critics, Tinah! Some of us love and appreciate Asian cinema, especially horror.
Personally, I enjoyed BODY #19, definitely more than Purikitpanya’s segment in 4BIA, though I did find myself enjoying that as well.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Lol sorry it was just a random rant because I see horrible reviews for movies such as body #19 by western critics but when it’s for a horrible movie like the unborn it has a up the roof review … lol it’s just a random rant really don’t take my comments so serious na ^__-”
April 10th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
No problem! Trust me, being a Western film critic, I know exactly what you’re talking about. Many horror films, mainly American ones, are reviewed and given far more consideration than global genre films.
My favorite style of horror has always been Asian horror so I feel your rant. I hate seeing people give the remake of SHUTTER positives comments and then turn around and claim the ORIGINAL wasn’t as good as the remake.