Coming Soon is a Thai horror film from the writer of Shutter,
the story follows a projectionist who has stumbled upon a cursed horror film. Although it uses a lot of the expected tropes associated with vengeful spirit movies from the east it pulls off every single one, it feels very much in the same vain as Shutter with both films sharing the common theme of ghosts being bound to some form of visual medium, which is no bad thing, I personally love Shutter and enjoyed watching something that could very well exist in the same universe.
There's enough twists and turns in the plot to prevent it from being too derivative or generic as its director and writer Sophon Sakdaphisit is really great at writing simple and effective mysteries.
There's definitely shades of Ringu in here as well, It feels at times that it is purposefully paying homage to other films within the genre, there's an elevator scene for example which is shot and executed exactly like the one in Danny Pang's "The Eye".
If supernatural films are your thing its definitely worth a watch.
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