Movie Review – Revenge of King Cobra (Thai)

Classification: 18
Genre: Thriller / Horror
General Release Date: 16 Sep 2010
Running Time: 1 Hour 47 Minutes,
Distributor: Ram Entertainment
Cast: Kwankow Sawetwimol, Peerawit Bunnark, Wasana Chalakorn, Angkana Timdee
Director: Thanadol Nuansuth, Thammanoon Sakulboontanom

Synopsis: Before the giant Suvarnabhumi international airport was built, the neglected and unoccupied area was called King Cobra Swamp by the locals. During construction, while removing a banyan tree thousands of cobra spilled forth from the earth killing everyone. Years later a new apartment was built on the same ground. Nin, the building owner, faces the horrifying truth when hundreds of cobras start killing every living person in the apartment. A reporter decides to investigate the horrific phenomenon but she is forced to fight for her life when she gets too deep in.

Due to certain "circumstances", Banana and I went to TGV in KLCC to watch a movie. Please bare in mind that both of us never planned to watch a movie on that day. We have "something exciting" to do actually.

Therefore, we didn't do any "revision" or "survey" about the movie that we are going to watch.

As we were rummaging our brain to decide which movies that we want to watch, I (the main culprit ><) came out with the suggestion to watch a horror movie.

You see, I seldom watch horror movie in a cinema. I thought it will be a "brand-new-once-in-a-life-time" experience for me. Okay, I was too excited to be scared off by the Cinema sound system.

My second reason is, it is a Thai Horror movie. Based on my previous experiences on watching Thai horror movies, they really did a good job scaring off their audiences.

As for Banana, she was fret about the idea. She afraid she will get a nightmare. XDXD.

However, this movie is "different". Why? Here is the review. You will know why I said it's different.

At the beginning of the scene, it seemed very good and appealing. Very soon, the audiences would experience the first horror scene. Good, don't waste time.

However, as we continue to watch the movie, we found the storyline was getting more and more illogical. There were too many unreasonable scenes and "leakages" in that movie.

You will feel annoyed rather than horrified as you continue to watch.

Banana even managed to catch the sound of turning on and off of light switches inside the movie. Those are supposed to be the "special effect" which we normally seen in horror movies where lights flickering in the hallway as people running for their lives. The mood is spoiled. ><

There are still lots of fallacious, mistakes, and errors inside the movie which I don't feel like mentioning here. Both of us were wondering, how come the director of the movie doesn't even realize it. Haiz….

Judging from the props and scenes in that movie, it is a low-budget movie. Perhaps, most of the horror movies are low-budget. Fine..

Even the computer-generated animation for King Cobra looked phony to us. An indeed pure low-budget movie.

Not to mention some of the casts don't really act well. I know, I'm a nobody to criticize somebody acting skills. However, I do have the rights to express my thoughts since I already paid Rm11 for that movie (chehwah!!). Perhaps, some of them are newbie in acting. I don't know.

There is even something wrong for casts' allocation for that movie. A doctor who looks like an inspector, you know, looking smart with a built-up body. If he never mentioned about the snakes' serum and know how to use syringes, we never knew he is a doctor. Or both of us didn't really pay attention in the movie as we were too busy criticizing it throughout the time. Lol. However, since he is a good-looking doctor, he is forgiven. HAHAHAHAHAHA ><||

To wrap up, this movie is a disappointment. No joking here. Those who used to watch Thai horror movies will get what I mean. Never anticipate too much for this movie. Perhaps they just want to come out with a movie in order to hit certain targets in their company. Who knows?

Ratings: 1/5