While a successful single mom recovers from a brutal car wreck, her two teens are sent to live with their grandparents. That, of course, is the inciting incident in half the independent teen horror movies on Prime Video, as well as a couple of big studio films. In all of those other movies, the viewer soon understands that something isn't right with granny and granddaddy, and this movie is no exception.
The director knows how to build creepiness into the regular business of living. It starts with the icky, repetition of sunny side up eggs and pale sausage at every meal, progresses to the strange sexual undertones of the boss making two young women work late without having work, and starts to get really weird when worm holes appear in the walls to allow the kids to look into the past. It's really a domestic pot boiler about abuse, but wrapped up in ghostly worm hole sci-fi.
If you watch much Asian horror, you get it.
But forget all about this movie and its plot. The most interesting part of this film for me was finding out that Thai high schools have cheer leading teams, and that they are subject to the same "mean girl" politics as American cheerleader teams.
I spent an hour afterward looking at clips of Thai cheer leading on YouTube, and found fascinating clips of their athletic combination of standard US cheerleader gymnastics, Chinese acrobatics, and rich hand movements akin to Balinese dance. I really liked finding out about a cheerleader culture completely divorced from football, and a sport in itself.
The director knows how to build creepiness into the regular business of living. It starts with the icky, repetition of sunny side up eggs and pale sausage at every meal, progresses to the strange sexual undertones of the boss making two young women work late without having work, and starts to get really weird when worm holes appear in the walls to allow the kids to look into the past. It's really a domestic pot boiler about abuse, but wrapped up in ghostly worm hole sci-fi.
If you watch much Asian horror, you get it.
But forget all about this movie and its plot. The most interesting part of this film for me was finding out that Thai high schools have cheer leading teams, and that they are subject to the same "mean girl" politics as American cheerleader teams.
I spent an hour afterward looking at clips of Thai cheer leading on YouTube, and found fascinating clips of their athletic combination of standard US cheerleader gymnastics, Chinese acrobatics, and rich hand movements akin to Balinese dance. I really liked finding out about a cheerleader culture completely divorced from football, and a sport in itself.