![]() ![]() ![]() His movie poster from 2005's Rahtree Returns is a campaign flier, and he's striking the same fierce pose that former massage-parlor tycoon Chuwit Kamolvisit used in billboards for his most recent gubernatorial bid. Buppha played an important role in his childhood, and no she wasn't his long-lost sister - that was Love of Siam.Īt least one character from the earlier two movies has returned - the comical "ghostbuster" Master Kong (Somlek Sakdikul), who is running for governor of Bangkok on a platform that he should be elected because he isn't a politician. Replacing him is Rung (Mario Maurer), a graphic novelist who sees dead people like Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense. She's been replaced by Sister Five, who's turned one floor of the apartment building into an illegal casino.Īlso missing in action is Buppha's old boyfriend, Ake, whose spirit is finally at rest. ![]() What is clear is that director "Tom" Yuthlert Sippapak is seeking to reset his Buppha Rahtree franchise and tell the story in smaller increments, as signaled by the title, Buppha Rahtree 3.1: Rahtree Reborn ( บุปผาราตรี 3.1).Ĭharacters from the first two films have been swept away. It's hard to tell what's really going on. Other times she's the grown up Buppha played by Ploy. Then she takes the form of a dead-eyed, gore-covered, jawless little hair ghost. She lures people in, looking like an innocent girl bouncing a pingpong ball. She turns up at Buppha's apartment building, has her jaw ripped off in a strange encounter with a man in a bathroom and sets about terrorizing the tenement. Weary of being beaten, she stabs dad with a pair of scissor and runs away with his straight razor. She's the stepdaughter of an abusive barber (Santisuk Promsiri). All that's left is a lonely young woman, still played by "Ploy" Chermarn Boonyasak from the first two movies in 20.īut there's a confusing complication - another Buppha Rahtree - a bullied little schoolgirl ( Nattawan Saksiri) who claims she's the reincarnation of Buppha Rahtree. Gone is the meek but angry ghost of a girl who was spurned and died from complications of an abortion. ![]() Released in Thai cinemas on April 9, 2009.Starring Chermarn Boonyasak, Mario Maurer, Nattawan Saksiri. ![]()
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