

The intention here is to try and make ghosts visible to everyone, collecting up as much research as possible to prove their existence to brilliant scientific minds.Īs the experiments progress, Wee and Gla realize they need a sacrifice in order to take things to the next level. He’s filmed all of his case logs up until this point, and it also features movies that Wee himself films later on. The Northern Lights Quest is the code-name of sorts to Gla Ar-Jong’s folder of ghost evidence on his laptop.
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Together, they set out to try and prove the existence of the paranormal, using a litany of tools at their disposal to do so.Īs the movie progresses, the two take a turn down a dark path, intent on proving their research no matter what. The story centers on two enthusiastic doctors, Wee and Gla Ar-Jong. The screenplay is even more engaging though the film could have done with a crisper second hour.Ghost Lab is a Thai horror/thriller exploring the afterlife and ghosts. The writing is a fine mix of novelty and tropes that go together with the genre. The visual tone of a supernatural film can get extraordinarily stereotyped robust the cinematographer Pithai Sithmuth offers a realistic touch to the frames within the limitations of his setting. While Ghost Lab does not provide anything path-breaking or new in terms of its background score, it nonetheless holds the plot and gives it the necessary emotional depth in the need of the hour. Despite the various absurd twists and turns resulting in a dramatic finale, the film is worth watching because of its timely relook at the horror genre. The film is definitely a lot more fascinating once it captures the child-like zeal of its’s characters than the extreme second hour that explores the dark corners of human ambition. The movie tries to reason ghosts supported familiarity, motive, and also the semiconductive factors that contribute to their ‘existence’. It proves that a new world is waiting to be discovered if you subvert them well enough. Ghost Lab is a good example to advocate how clichés aren’t always a concern to genre-specific movies.

The filmmaker Paween Purijitpanya well utilizes the acquainted tropes of the genre that functions as the cherries on top of a promising story and drives a crucial purpose concerning impulsive decision-making amid the desperation to succeed.

Ghost Lab illustrates to the extent that humans can go to fulfill their ambitions, through a persistent appealing narrative that’s palpitating and hits an emotional chord. Once through all those acquainted beats, though, the narrative shifts with an astonishing event. Complete with spooky scenes, ready within the atmospheric hospital. This first act follows a longtime mold the friends use cameras, temperature, and varied spirit hunting tools to document their finds. One terrifying encounter with the spirit of a horribly burned patient later, and the pair begin their sequence of experimentations. Wee’s sentimental stakes come in the form of his fidelity to an unresponsive, frail mother. Gla and Wee trade light-hearted pranks, that establish their bond. The investigation leads to unheeding obsession, and the hunt becomes treacherous. When some of the friends encounter a petrifying spirit during a late-night shift, it sparks the tracking of proof in the name of science. Gla is the socializer in a happily committed relationship with Mai (Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich). Wee lives at the hospital to care for his long lethargic mother. Young doctors Wee (Thanapob Leeratanakachorn) along with Gla (Paris Intarakomalyasut) cooperate together at a hospital, but their friendship goes beyond their operating relationship.

GDH 559 Co’s Director for Brand New Business told Thai PBS World referred to as the story 'quite unconventional' and a shot at exploring beliefs in supernatural bodies. The movie explores deeper into the 'afterlife' theme with unpredicted plot twists. The story revolves around two doctors, who become obsessed with gathering knowledge-based evidence to prove the existence of supernatural bodies after murders in hospitals. Directed by Pawan Purijitpanya, who co-wrote the script with Vasudhorn Piyaromna and Tossaphon Riantong, Ghost Lab opens as a horror-comedy.
