The true story...

Here's an article that discusses the movie and the events of the original screening in 1987. It's fascinating!

Here's the link:http://www.thaisabai.org/2009/06/the-ghosts-of-kamchanod/


Here's the article:

In 1987 a telephone call to a mobile cinema projection company was the start to a mysterious ghost story that years later would become the subject of a top Thai movie. The identity of the caller has never been known but their request for a night of entertainment in the rural rice clad province of Udon Thani has since been left unexplained and is one of the most famous Thai ghost stories.

KamchanodKamchanod forest is on a small island cut off by small waterways near the village of Wang Tong and the dense forest is rumoured amongst the locals to house the underground kingdom of the mythical Phaya Naga(dragon). The fireball breathing Naga appears up and down the Mekong River in northeastern Thailand at the end of the Buddhist Lent during the eleventh lunar full moon in October every year. Thousands of people line the banks of the Mekong in nearby Phon Phisai and wait for the Phaya Naga to shoot fireballs into the night skies from the murky waters that divide Thailand and Laos. The Phaya Naga Festival is one of the biggest yearly events in northeast Thailand and visitors come from all corners of the country in the hope of seeing the mythical dragon.

The four strong projectionist team arrived early evening on the island and set up the projection equipment in a clearing as requested by the mysterious caller. As the 9 pm start time approached no one had arrived and minutes later the spools of film started to roll to an empty venue. Late into the night a large crowd of strange looking country folk appeared out of the forest and silently assembled before the big screen. All the women were dressed in white and stood on the right side and men swathed all in black banded together on the left, nobody spoke a word. The production continued to spin its film reels to a still and motionless crowd who watched without expression or any show of emotion throughout.

At four in the morning the outdoor theatre finished and the crowd disappeared just as suddenly as they had arrived. The men packed up their equipment and headed back over the water toward Wang Tong.

The village of Wang Tong was starting its day as the cinema crew stopped off to question a few of the locals about the picture show. Those they questioned knew nothing of the event and nobody had heard the loud speakers booming out into the night. The men realized they had projected their movies to a large gathering of ghosts.

The Screen of Kamchanod is a movie made in 2007 by Five Star Production (Thailand). Good, bad and downright ugly are words that best describe many of the reviews that I read on Director Songsak Mongkolthong’s horror movie whose plot features a team of investigators who try to reconstruct the exact events of the eerie night in Udon Thani Province.

The four strong investigation team led by Dr Yuth (Achita Pramoj Na Ayudhya) travel from Bangkok to track down the same spools of film used by the 1987 projection team to reenact the ghostly night in the same spot in Kamchanod forest and lure the ghostly spirits into the open once more.

Dr Yuth, his girlfriend and two Bangkok journalists hoping to uncover a major scoop are joined by a homeless kid and soon the forest of Kamchanod unleashes its dark forces upon them all. The group stumble from one catalogue of horrors to the next as their lives come under increasing danger.

In the reviews the movie gets slated for its poor acting, loose plot and praised for some very scary moments and the charms of Thai actress Pakkramai Potranan who plays Dr Yuth’s girlfriend.

Kamchanod forest can be viewed from Wungnakin Kamchanod Reserve, Wang Tong, near Ban Dung, Udon Thani Province. Its recommended you leave before nightfall.


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