Pisanthanakun presents the rustic beauty of rural Isan with dilapidated temples and lone Monks providing an orange semblance of light and spiritual purity among the gray, overcast setting. The rural Thai setting also works here as its unfamiliar and exotic – something you wouldn’t normally see in horror unless you put in The Wheel (from Three Extremes 2 ), The Boxer’s Omen, one of Pisanthanakun’s previous films, or even producer Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing (trading a Thai setting for rural South Korea). Thankfully, what The Medium does have going for it is a believable performance by Gulmongkolpech, who runs the gauntlet of portraying a number of different personalities, each seemingly more depraved than the last, as the film carries on and her condition worsens. The Medium, as far as possession films go, does follow a lot of the tropes that were perfected in The Exorcist, and truthfully, it’s hard to improve upon them no matter how many years pass and how many new tools filmmakers have to utilize. Later, the decapitated statue of Bayan is discovered, meaning that perhaps what is possessing Mink is far more sinister than what was originally thought. The family tries in vain to conduct a ceremony in order to extract Bayan from the girl. She scares small children at an indoor playground, becomes promiscuous, her physical appearance deteriorates (her face turning a charcoal black) and she begins to show Reagan-like symptoms – vomiting, shouting obscenities, and ripping off her shirt in hopes that her close relatives will cop a feel. The documentary crew starts to notice Mink’s unnerving behavior, obviously tainted by Bayan. The villagers worship this spirit, which is represented by a statue at a shrine in the forest, and are shown dancing around it in ceremonial fashion.īayan has chosen a different successor, the medium’s cousin Noi, but because Noi turned to Christianity, Bayan turned its energy to the next of kin: her daughter Mink (Narilya Gulmongkolpech). Bayan is not content with one body and has been jumping from vessel to vessel for generations. The Medium takes place in the uncharacteristically not-very-sunny, green, or picturesque rural area of Thailand, Isan, where a documentary team is covering a medium (or shaman) who is possessed by a spirit named Bayan. For this film, he teams with Korean writer and producer Na Hong-jin ( The Chaser, The Wailing ) to combine Thai folklore horror with a slick and modern Korean production style to produce one darkly entertaining film. Written by Cha-won Choi, Chantavit Dhanasevi, Na Hong-jinįrom acclaimed horror auteur Banjong Pisanthanakun ( Shutter, Pee Mak ) comes a new vision of spiritual possession based in his homeland of Thailand. The Shutter Exclusive horror film, The Medium will be released on their streaming platform on October 14th, 2021.Starring Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sawanee Utoomma, Sirani Yankittikan Let us know what you thought of the trailer down below! Especially that last scene that we get to see! I am very excited to get to watch this as found footage types of films are some of my favorites to enjoy. – The Medium – Photo Credit: Sasidis Sasisakulporn/Shudderīy the way the trailer was put together this looks like a terrifying film. This film stars Sawanee Utoomma, Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sirani Yankittikan and is written by both Pisanthanakun and Na. It was also a selection for Beyond Fest and BFI London Film Festival. It was an official selection at the Bucheon International Film Festival this year, where it also won Best Film. Currently, it sits as the 6th highest-grossing Korean film of 2021. This past summer, The Medium was released in South Korea. From director Banjong Pisanthanakun ( Shutter ) and producer Na Hong-jin (director of The Wailing ) – The Medium _ Key Art – Photo Credit: Shudder The team decides to follow Mink, hoping to capture the shaman lineage passing on to the next generation, but her bizarre behavior becomes more extreme. Check it out below!Ī documentary team follows Nim, a shaman based in Northern Thailand, the Isan area, and encounters her niece Mink showing strange symptoms that seem to be of inheritance of shamanism. This Shutter Exclusive film will be released on their streaming platform on October 14th. With that, we are excited to share with you the trailer for The Medium. In which case sometimes what we see on screen lingers in our mind as a possible reality. If done correctly they offer audiences the option to buy into the idea that what they are watching is real. Found footage style of horror films are so much fun.
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