The Film:
Since the late 1990's, we have seen a massive influx of fantastic horror films coming from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand including Ringu, Dark Water and Ju-On: The Grudge. Unfortunately, with many of these horrors becoming financial successes in the West, as well as in Asia, we have to be prepared for the hundreds of cheap lousy films, made purely to try and cash in. Diecovery is one of these films. Diecovery is starts off with two teenage girls fighting on the balcony of a house, when one is pushed and falls to her death (from a whole eight foot). The other girl decides she must trap the evil spirit to stop revenge and so sews her mouth shut. With the help from a male character, also in the scene, she buries her under a tree.
Forward 25 years later and we are introduced to two more characters, a couple who are going on holiday for two weeks for their honeymoon. They stay at the house where the girl in the opening scene was killed and buried. Cue some of the worst acting, plot and effects you have ever seen in your life. The acting is abysmal and the four main actors (Chutima Avery, Suthiporn Meta, Natcha Songsuwan and Jaran Patchjaroen) should hang their heads in shame for hitting us with this crap. Obviously the good actors steered clear to avoid ending their careers. Saying that, the blame cannot be solely left to the actors, but director Kulachad Kitkajohnvanid (yes, that is his real name) should seriously consider getting another job because no company in their right mind will give him any money to repeat something like this. In fact, they'd probably give him money to not make a film and just sit at home instead.
In all honesty, this is one of the worst films I ever seen (and I've seen a LOT of films), and if I never hear of this film again, it won't be too soon. Avoid like the plague.
The DVD:
Video:
So, looking at the back of the box and seeing that it should be an anamorphic transfer at 1.78:1 you begin to think that no matter what the film is like, it will look great on your £2000 TV and top of the range DVD player. Well, sorry to disappoint, but although the box is correct, the picture quality is awful. There is judder throughout as well as bad general blurriness. You also get vertical lines running across any lighter coloured part of the picture. Subtitles are just as bad. They were probably put together by someone who did the Thailand equivalent of an English GCSE as foreign language. Never have I seen such bad subtitles.
Audio:
A Thai 5.1 track in dolby digital? Surely they can't mess this up? Wrong! The track is abysmal. It isn't really 5.1, at least not to my ears. The sound is the exact same from every single speaker which is the final nail in the coffin. A Cantonese 2.0 Stereo track is also available.
Extras:
None. I'd never thought I'd be happy about no extras either.
