Review courtesy of MovieXclusive:
The premise of Ghost Game is quite straightforward and is an
unusual spin on the age-old story of daring people to enter
seemingly haunted houses. 11 contestants enter into a reality
television programme that will pay out the highest amount in Thai
game-show history (5 million Baht) to the contestant that endures
the longest in an apparently haunted torture camp. But as usual,
the best laid plans never goes the way it should as they find that
the ghosts are far more violent than they had expected.
Mired in controversy when it was first released in Thailand, the
films setting closely resembled (by name and representation)
Cambodias infamous Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, where the Khmer
Rouge tortured and killed countless dissidents. The Ghost Game
producers built the set in Thailand after requests to use the
actual museum were denied. Boycotts were called when it was
released, leading to a Cambodian ban on the feature while
Thai-Cambodian relations hit an all-time low despite the
filmmakers apologies and a disclaimer at the start of the film.
Unfortunately, due to these problems, there seems to be a
substantial amount of scenes referencing the Khmer people that were
edited out, which ended up marring the quality of the final cut
quite significantly.
Ghost Game somewhat resembles the 2003 Norwegian scare fest,
Villmark which had the same idea of a survival-reality television
programme choosing contestants to travel deep into the Norwegian
woods, encountering evils both plain and unseen. While that film
took time to build on the characters, Ghost Game had no such
intentions. Right off the bat, with no back-stories revealed about
the contestants, were introduced to them in the midst of
travelling to the house of horrors. With 11 contestants excluding
the crew of the reality series, thats a whole lot of characters to
keep track off, each apparently from disparate walks of
life........
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