While there are some flaws, the film does have a lot to like about it. These factors all combine together to lower the film somewhat. This series of scenes here with the guys doing their discussions create a highly dispiriting downgrade against the type of sympathy that had been created beforehand with a series of revelations that we've all been aware of for the most part anyway that tends to alter our perception of the characters. They're so infrequent in place of these admittedly spirited debates that it's entirely possible to be bored during these segments while the conversations eventually bring a different change to their personalities by offering a highly dispiriting tone that is completely dull to sit through. Despite turning the film into a series of enthusiastic and thoughtful conversations involving the physics of the situation against the psychological damage the quest is turning him, very little of this becomes interesting as the ghosts completely disappear from the film in favor of these conversations. When the switch occurs that brings the two into their quest for the truth behind the ghosts that they've been seeing, there's a decided lack of interest in what's going on that tends to make for a highly problematic and underwhelming feature. This factor becomes another drawback to the film that holds it back. Once they discover the ghosts have been visiting the hospital, all pretenses of comedy are dropped in favor of increasingly melodramatic confrontations between the two highlighting their descent into psychological madness and devotion to figuring out the truth rather than featuring a straightforward story. While lighthearted and certainly of the variety that genuine friends would pull on each other, these scenes come off as quite odd when contrasted against the dramatic turns later on. However, this melodramatic turn is broken up frequently to show that the two are indeed best friends through the use of childish, immature pranks and pratfalls around the hospital that showcase a decidedly more comedic bent to the presentation. The initial setup of the two working in the hospital for various altruistic reasons as one wants to be close to his comatose mother and the other more interested in the pursuit of the paranormal working there offers him provides a grounding to the characters early on. Much of this is due to a bizarre storyline that favors shifting the tone of the film quite frequently from scene to scene. Overall, the film is quite a jarring and offsetting film. Working a shift at a local hospital, a pair of friends are convinced they've been witness to paranormal activity and set out on a determined quest to find out the truth about the paranormal world, forcing them deeper into a quest that the ghosts in the area aren't too fond of them discovering. I am rating "Ghost Lab" a mediocre five out of ten stars. This wasn't a groundbreaking moment in Thai horror cinema, nor was it a particularly memorable or outstanding experience. But ultimately, "Ghost Lab" is adequate for a single viewing, if you have nothing better to watch. So writers Vasudhorn Piyaromna, Paween Purijitpanya and Tossaphon Riantong weren't exactly revolutionizing the Thai horror/ghost genre with "Ghost Lab". "Ghost Lab", as a horror movie, just failed to bring much of anything overly new to the genre. Luckily, then "Ghost Lab" was not a movie that was overly reliant on special effects in order to be watchable. It should be said, though, that the special effects and CGI department did good enough jobs with bringing the supernatural elements to life on the screen. There weren't much of ghosts to be seen, so if you are expecting that, you'll be sorely disappointed. Visually then "Ghost Lab" was adequate, I suppose. It should be said that the acting performances in "Ghost Lab" were definitely good, and the actors and actresses were putting on good performances to bring their characters to life - pardon the pun - on the screen. And that worked out well enough in "Ghost Lab", at least up to a certain point, then the movie just became stale and lost its drive. The storyline told in "Ghost Lab" was interesting enough on certain aspects, and I do like the aspect of men of science delving into the realm of the supernatural in order to prove something. But on the other hand, then the movie's storyline just didn't really feel wholehearted, and the movie was definitely lacking in the scares department. On one hand then it was actually nice to see a Thai ghost movie that deviated from the usual archetypical, and often stereotypical, formula that many ghost movies from Asia follow. For a ghost movie then "Ghost Lab" was sort of a mixed experience. I must admit that I was expecting a tad more from the 2021 Thai horror movie "Ghost Lab" than what director Paween Purijitpanya managed to deliver.
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