Watched Thailand's 2023 Home for Rent (2:03:08). Due to their current financial situation, Kwin and Ning Ing are compelled to rent out their house and move into a condo unit. Unbeknownst to Ning, the two persons who rent the house, Dr. Nuch and her mother, Ratree Khemarak, are involved in the performance of dark rituals involving three, seven-year-old girls, one of them Ing, Kwin and Ning's daughter.
The first half of the movie is told from the point of view of Ning, the sequences reminiscent of Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. The second half is shown us from the point of view of Ning's husband, Kwin, and has quite a few surprises. The movie ends with a series of suspenseful twists leading to a bitter-sweet conclusion.
I have always maintained, and I still do, that Thailand produces the best horror movies in Southeast Asia, perhaps because it is a land of many mystical practices. Filipinos will probably never match up to producing movies in this genre because they are constantly restrained by Christian guilt and religious claptrap--the same reason that has always prevented Philippine magic from blossoming to its fullest. .
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