My Ex: Haunted Lover

Horror MOvie

Synopsis

Affair and love triangle happen. It is inevitable that one has to lose the love in the end. What would happen if the loser isn’t human and not willing to give in? Will they ever find a way out? Can this kind of entwining love be resolved? Cee is a younger sister of Bowie , a famous movie star. Bowie is determined to push her sister into the spotlight. She introduced her sister to everyone in the movie business she knows. Her effort finally paid off when Cee is offered a role in upcoming high budget film. Aof (“Big” Thongpoom), Cee’s boyfriend, is in debt as he lost a huge bet on a football game. When he knows about his girlfriend’s budding movie career, he pesters her to get a share of her money. His behavior is something unbearable to Bowie. It is not until when Cee found out Aof’s affair with Ying that she ‘s determined to end it with Aof. Aof tries to reconcile with Cee and promised that he will leave Ying. While Cee is considering if she should patch things with Aof, Ying committed suicide. Cee is in greatly saddened that a woman chose to end her life for an unfaithful man. Since Ying’s death, Cee has this creepy feeling that something, someone is following her. Bowie suspects that it is Aof, who has been trailing Cee to get back together. To bring her sister away from the mess, Bowie brings Cee and her friends to Koh Chang, where she’s shooting a movie. The beautiful seaside getaway gives Cee some peace of mind. The sisters are introduced to Karn (Pete Thongjua), the resort’s handsome owner, who is also a close friend of Boyd (Bodhin Duke), the director. Not only is Karn of a great help, by allowing Boyd to use his resort as the shooting location but he is also very attentive to the beautiful sisters.

I watched this movie on 7 January 2011 at Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) with my friend. I just accompany my friend to watch this movie.

My Ex: Haunted Lover is about two siblings who is an actress. The older sister is already an actress but the younger sister just pass the audition to be an actress. The younger sister's boyfriend was cheating with her. She and her friends saw her boyfriend go watching movie together at cinema. When she ask, her boyfriend said that he just want that woman's money, nothing else. But his confession was heard by that woman during by chance that woman went to his house.

So, the question is how that woman die? She commited suicide or being murdered? If she being murdered, who is the murderer? Why that woman's spirit haunt them? Are they safe? What is the fate of their friends? Who is the really mastermind in this movie? What is the ending of this movie? Last but not least, "I AM NOT THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO WOULD RETREAT TO ANYONE"

“MY EX: HAUNTED LOVER” THAI FILM

Chill, folks.

Draw the curtains, stay indoors.

Didn’t you see the apparition lurking in the shadows outside?

She’s back for the haunting,

She’s not gonna leave you alone,

She’s out to drink your blood.

Now, when did this happen?

How did this story start?

Hush, baby. Here’s the SECRET:

Take this elder sister.

Her name is BOWIE, a ravishingly sexy Thai actress.

She loves her younger sister, very much and will go the long mile for her, any time.

Her younger sister is CEE, doe-eyed, sweet and so beguiling, and has this roguish boyfriend called AOF.

Through BOWIE’s connections, CEE clinches a lead role in a big budget feature film.

So you see, in the celluloid world, it is never what you know, but WHO you know to get you some place.

Hopefully not a quick ticket to HELL though.

But who knows?

Happiness is all around, until AOF decides to intervene with CEE’s career.

Why?

AOF is broke, needs money and wants a piece of the action.

AOF also has a girl friend on the side, called YING, who eventually throws herself from a tall residential building into the pool below, when AOF dumps her.

So YING’s spirit will come ahaunting

and then revenge is sweet, right?

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!

Now, our REEL story begins …..

All THAI movies distributed overseas are cleverly highlighted as THAI box-office HIT number 1, irrespective of whether they are or not.

How are we to know, really?

Whether this bit holds water or not, we must realize that this is MY EX2: Haunted Lover is spawned from the box office success of its predecessor MY EX1.

The film director is PIYAPHAN CHUPET and the stars are BADIN DUKE, MARION AFFOLTER and PETE THONG-JEUR – as if you have heard of these names.

The Thai Film Board and Distributors never bothered to promote their artistes out of Thailand, much less care about the awful English sub-titling.

It has little to offer in terms of “new-ness” to the realm of Asian ghost movies, but it handled the conventions well, piling frightful scene upon frightful scene as a vengeful ghost seeks payback against those who wronged her.

For horror fans, you will be treated with loads of awesome blood and gruesome gore.

This film is layered with twisted revelations towards the end, where things are not as placid as they seem and that beauty can be a lethal weapon.

To savor THE HAUNTED LOVER, keep your concoctions simple.

Take it with a pinch of salt and a twist of lemon.

The film director could have focused on the character development of the leads instead of spawning screamy and squirmish escapades non-stop to create the shocks.

Interesting plot but tiresome execution mars the enjoyment of an otherwise absorbing film about vengeful hauntings.

Oh, lest I forget, this Reviewer is nursing a bad headache from the super loud eerie soundtrack that accompanies the gory scenes.

It’s a real turn-off to have the noise so earsplitting and explosively jarring.

We are not stone deaf.

The audio people at Kantana Post in Bangkok, kindly take note!

As the credits roll at the final frame, this Reviewer had to rush to grab some aspirins from the nearby pharmacy, to keep himself from reeling.