Review Movie : Senior (Runpee)

If you like Thai romance film, Senior aka Runpee is one with some horror element to it.

Besides horror thrills, you get to do some detective work in a Catholic Convent school. This was an interesting genre, human to communicate with spirits. Instead of seeing them, she sniffs them out (like a dog). Her eccentric behaviour (she’s not scared of the ghosts, and doesn’t hide from others the fact that she can communicate with them) made the story interesting. 

With a ghost and human acting as a pair of detective to uncover the mystery of a murder case 50 years ago, I like how the director provide alternative insights as to why ghosts can walk through walls. Here, ghosts can’t actually walk through walls. They can walk to places where there were paths when they were alive. So even if walls were built after they died, they will be still be able to walk through. Human can only see ghosts when they are about to dead.

As the cast were made up of new faces, hence the acting were pretty raw and bad (especially Mon’s good friend Ant (Kaykai Nutticha Namwong). The subplot of bullying in school was run-of-the-mill, and there were times where it felt like Mon was more of going along with Ant’s friendliness where absorbed in her world with her “senior”.

If you are a fan of Thai films, this is probably something that provides some element of surprise. However, if you are going for extreme horror, this might be too mild for you.  ~Tiffanyyong~