Project Hashima - Collision Course of Thai and Japan Horror Film

Movie Quote - 

"May:  It’s in the top 5 most haunted places"

“Bullshit.”

It’s all I can reply to this attempting to make use “history” of Hashima as background story of this haunted movie.

OK, Let’s go to the movie, the plot itself is quite simple and belong to typical ghost movie , where you will a got 5 thing as listed below,

1. Cast that formed by homesome boys and pretty girls
2. A lot of Ghost faking scene that made up just to scare audience.
3. Some stupid guys/girls will do some stupid things that lead up to entire movie.
4. Ghost or haunted spirit will go and track them down , directly or indirectly.
5. A final twist in the end where the movie mainly treat audience as dumbass to trick with.

And there u go, Project Hashima~

Directed by Piyapan Choopetch (Necromancer, Vow of Death), Story started off with a group of young movie college graduate, formed by Off (Alexander Rendell),  Nan (rom-com/horror star Apinya Sakulkaroensuk), May (Sushar Manaying), Nick (Pirat Nipitpaisalkul)and Dog (Mek Mekwattana). After attempting to interview to movie company with their horror film has failed, they decided to uploading the video to Youtube, which gaining a lot of views and finally a deal from another movie production company, Ghostland approached and offer them to shoot a documentary movie which based on the inhabited island, Hashima, which they accepted later on. But neither of them could foresee mysterious and tragedies that finally coming for them as they returned to their home, Bangkok.

Well that is basically the whole synopsis of the movie, which I don’t have any interest to elaborate more. But I will share some interesting fact about Hashima,

         1. Hashima - the once vibrant but now entirely abandoned Japanese island has inspired Sam Mendes' vision of the villain Silva's lair in Bond movie Skyfall

         2. Hashima in reality, has never been regarded as a paranormal hub, let alone "the top five haunted places on Earth", as explained in the film.

         3. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima's mines were no exception. Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and today it is empty and bare, which is why it is called Ghost Island.

         4. The island's most notable features are the abandoned and undisturbed concrete apartment buildings and the surrounding sea wall.

      If you are interesting enough to dig some of real Hashima footage, why don’t you dig on this guy’s research? It’s an interesting and “real” Hashima Project!

       

     http://www.hashima-island.co.uk/   

 (This website itself is more thrilling than movie if u asked me..)

     LP Rating – A very modest Thai ghost story, you got some hot guys and hot chicks with some little thrill throughout the movie, nothing much to expect, so do with my stars, 3/10.