In Thailand, a serial killer leaves a trace of gruesome discoveries. Inspector Chin can't find the culprit and calls in the help of a former hitman. Hardboiled crime thriller larded with soft touches and effective special effects.
In Thailand, a serial killer is behind several gruesome finds. Dead bodies are cut in pieces and found without genitals in red suitcases. Apart from the way in which the victims are found, there are few similarities between these mysterious cases. Inspector ‘Papa Chin’ does not manage to trace the culprit and asks Tai, a former hitman, for help. If Tai manages to find the brutal killer within 15 days, he will be a free man, promises Chin. Then he will finally be able to embrace his lover Noi again. For his quest, Tai returns to his birthplace, because he suspects that someone from his past knows more about the gruesome murders.
Slice is an inventive, hard-boiled crime thriller with effective and very realistic special effects, and surprising melodramatic touches. Based on a screenplay by Wisit Sasanatieng, director of the Thai cult film Tears of the Black Tiger (2000).
PROGRAMMER NOTES
You're a boy aged about 12. Maybe 14. Thai boys aren't very tall. You live in the countryside and the few other boys in the village are your friends, because there's no choice. The worst thing they can say about you: you're a wimp. They don't know that at night even worse things happen in secret. You don't need to go to the city for sexual cruelty.
This could be the backdrop for a sensitive coming-of-age film. The protagonist flees to the city, to a different life, but at a certain point his past catches up with him.
However, Wisit Sasanatieng, the narrator, not the director, of this story chooses a very different way. A detour, you could call it. The boy who doesn't want to be called gay has already grown up and is in prison.This film is initially not sensitive, but an occasionally gruesome horror filled with sexually motivated violence. With a serial killer who cuts off genitals and cuts corpses down to size before they disappear in a suitcase. It's clear that the murderer, wearing a kind of (red) Batman cape, is acting out of revenge. But against whom? And who can be so filled with hatred?
Slowly the film returns to the childhood and the village and the friends who are not really your friends. The film also stays there for a long time, as if it wants to become a different film. Slice is clearly not your average horror film.
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