- Sick Nurses
Infobox Film
name = Sick Nurses
caption = The Thai theatrical poster.
director = Piraphan Laoyont
Thodsapol Siriwiwat
producer =Prachya Pinkaew
Sukanya Vongsthapat
Akarapol Techaratanaprasert.
writer = Piraphan Laoyont
Thodsapol Siriwiwat
narrator =
starring = Chol Wajananont
music = Lullaby Production
cinematography = Chitti Urnorakankij
editing = Piraphan Laoyont
Chalerm Wongpim
Manussa Vorasingha
distributor =Sahamongkol Film International
released = Thailand:June 14 ,2007
runtime = 83 min.
country = Thailand
language = Thai
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:424040
imdb_id = 1058008"Sick Nurses" ( _th. สวยลากไส้ or "Suay Laak Sai") is a 2007 Thai horror-
comedy film , written and directed byPiraphan Laoyont andThodsapol Siriwiwat .Plot
In a run-down, suburban
Bangkok hospital, young Dr. Tar (Wichan Jarujinda) and seven nurses have been running a scheme to sell dead bodies on the black market. But one nurse, Tawan (Chol Wachananont), has found out that her boyfriend, Dr. Tar, has been having an affair with her sister, Nook (Chidjun Rujiphan), is tired of the body-selling scam, and is ready to call the police.However, before Tawan can take action, the doctor and six resident nurses at the hospital, strap Tawan to an operating table, kill her and then wrap her in a black, plastic garbage bag. They then dump her in the trunk of the doctor’s car, where her corpse will be kept on dry ice until it can be sold.
All the woman have their own obsessions and weaknesses, which are preyed upon in the days that follow, when Tawan's ghost returns to kill each one of her former co-workers.
Cast
* Chol Wachananont as Tawan
* Wichan Jarujinda as Dr. Taa
* Chidjan Rujiphun as Nook
* Dollaros Dachapratumwan as Jo
* Kanya Rattanapetch as Ae
* Ocha Wang as Yim
* Ampairat Techapoowapat
* Ampaiwan TechapoowapatRelease and reception
"Sick Nurses" was released in Thailand cinemas on
June 14 ,2007 , where critical and box-office response was muted."
Bangkok Post " film critic Kong Rithdee characterized the film as exploitive and complained that the film's general release was allowed by the same Board of Censors that had earlier in the year banned directorApichatpong Weerasethakul 's drama film, "Syndromes and a Century ", because of what the board said were objectionable portrayals of medical professionals. "What's more saddening than seeing bad exploitation movies is the double standards of the people who have power. Unfortunately we have both of them right here in Thailand," he wrote. [ [http://www.thaifilm.com/articleDetail_en.asp?id=104 Just plain queasy] , Kong Rithdee, "Bangkok Post" via Thai Film Foundation; retrieved 2007-11-26]In July 2007, at a workshop discussion on censorship in Thailand, producer
Prachya Pinkaew revealed that the Board of Censors had in fact called for cuts to be made in the film, asking that a scene in which a medical cross symbol falls off the hospital building and kills a character be altered to eliminate the killing, because the censors believed that was a bad association for the symbol.The film was shown at the 2007
Hawaii International Film Festival in the "Extreme Asia" section, where it received a positive review from "Variety", which called the film "slickly executed". [ [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935345.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 Sick Nurses (review)] , Richard Kuipers, "Variety"; retrieved 2007-11-26]As of 2008, the film has been released on DVD in Thailand with no English subs and in America with English and Spanish subs.
References
External links
*imdb title|id=1058008|title=Sick Nurses
*" [http://www.movieseer.com/movieprofilebil.asp?moID=6199&Channel=2 Sick Nurses] " at MovieSeer
*" [http://www.siamzone.com/movie/m/4512 Sick Nurses] " at SiamZone th icon
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