Pee chong air (2004) User Reviews

I see dead people,the twist this time is its a rock band who see it.

[theNomadz · 5/10 · 2 June 2005]

A quick sum up on the plot I watched it as The Sisters.

A prostitute is killed in an hotel room her head was chopped off and left in the air conditioning unit.some months later a rock band spend the night in the room,only to find the spirit of the woman still in the room.Each member of the band afterwards meet grisly ends.

Asian cinema as caught onto the US trend of teen horror recently this one being very Ju-on crossed with Evil Dead Trap feeling and is well enough made,but as all the other ghost j-horrors these days you'll not find anything new in it.That said its well worth a casual view probably best saved for a rainy night when you'd be stuck in watching poor TV anyway,a couple of nice set pieces will keep most horror fans happy enough.I loved the green tint used in the hotel Dario Argento used to use flushes of colour like this in his 70s thrillers.It coulda been a contender instead of a bargain bin buy I give it an average [5 out of 10] good effort but there's far better films like this around.

The best horror about an AC Duct Ghost for sure!

[ThrownMuse · 5/10 · 11 March 2007]

The title of this horror apparently translates to "Air-conditioning-duct Ghost." Good times! Unfortunately, the American release is simply called "The Sisters." How appropriately dull.

So what we have here is a young rock band (though you never get to hear their music) who are on their way home and stop at a hotel to stay overnight. One of the band members notices a piece of fabric hanging from the, uh, air-conditioning-duct in the ceiling, and this leads to the discovery of a horrible curse by the ghost of the dead prozzy that has taken up residence in the AC. The kids find out that death is imminent, so they seek help from a Buddhist monk, who tells them if they sleep in coffins, they'll be fine. What? Did something get lost in translation there?

This movie isn't as terrible as some of these plot points make it sound. It does borrow (rather heavily) from popular Asian horror films like "Ju On" and "A Tale of Two Sisters," but it is much simpler than either of those movies. While the use of the "scary woman" and "creepy child" ghosts are a direct ripoff, they are given more screen time here and are more effectively creepy. Also, there is more violence and blood in this one than the recent influx of Asian supernatural stories. "Pee Chong Air" is like your typical Asian ghost story on speed. Another aspect worth mentioning is the fantastic use of color, especially in the eerie hotel room, that is clearly influenced by Ji-woon Kim's recent films. "Pee Chong Air" has much going for it, and I'd be willing to forgive the fact that the movie is about an AC-Ghost, or that pretending to be dead is one the suggested cures for a curse. Unfortunately, the conclusion of the film makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and seemed tacked on because the filmmakers had no idea how to end it.

Could have been so much more.

[Sabalon · 4/10 · 9 August 2006]

I liked the idea behind this movie based on what I read here. It may have looked a bit low budget and all, but that's fine. What really let me down is how much this movie looked like it wanted to be a Thailand version of Ju-on/The Grudge, with a bit of Shutter, Ring and other things thrown in.

I didn't really find any suspense in this at all. And what really bothered me is they had a good idea and the ability to tell a nice story with a horror element a la Dark Water or A Tale of Two Sisters.

In the end it falls pretty flat with the last 10 or so minutes doing an okay job of redeeming the film.

A Horror Film Limited by a Confusing Ending

[Uriah43 · 5/10 · 5 September 2020]

This film essentially begins with a prostitute by the name of "Saengdao" (Piyathida Woramusik) entering a hotel room where she is then savagely murdered and subsequently decapitated by the man inside. A couple of years later, having left Bangkok and needing a place to stay for the night, a Thai rock band just happens to pick that exact same hotel. Upon entering their room one of the band members sees something strange coming out of the air vent and upon examining it further becomes so scared that he runs down into the hotel lobby to escape from what he saw. This strange action is noticed by one of the other members who also decides to look up into the air vent-and he too becomes exceedingly frightened and without saying a word runs away as well. Sensing something is not quite right, each of the other band members examine the air vent and one by one they each see a ghostly image of a woman coming toward them and in abject fear they all run down into the hotel lobby where they quietly discuss what they thought they saw. Not long after that one of these band members sees another apparition in the hotel lobby and upon running outside is killed by an oncoming car. Shocked by everything they have already witnessed the rest of the band then begins to realize that they have all been targeted by a vengeful spirit and each of them look for salvation from it in their own way. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an interesting ghost film which could have been much better if the director (Tiwa Moeithaisong) had managed to tie up a few of the missing threads in the end. Having failed to do so it leaves the viewer with some unanswered questions and severely marginalizes what could have been an excellent horror movie. That being said, given its limitations I honestly cannot rate this movie any higher than I have. Average.

It's "The Grudge." Go Watch That.

[timothygartin · 5/10 · 20 November 2019]

There aren't any major problems with this movie. Lots of scenes are spooky. The acting is solid. The music is good.

The issue is that this movie has the same story as "The Grudge" and doesn't pull it off as well. It feels hollow throughout.

It is also really hard to figure out the name of this movie. I think it is in the US as both "The Sisters" and "The Sister."

Essentially a watered down rip off of Japanese classic "The Grudge"...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 7 July 2020]

I had not even heard about "The Sisters" (aka "Pee chong air") prior to getting the opportunity in 2020 to sit down and watch it. But with it being a Thai horror movie, of course I needed no persuasion to actually find the time to watch it, not even with the movie being 16 years old.

Well, now as the movie has ended, I am feeling that this is a shameless rip off of the Japanese "The Grudge" movies, as it was essentially the same storyline transpiring on the screen. A lady ghost and a little boy ghost, and they even had copied that classic and unique sound that the lady makes in "The Grudge", just not as loudly or as outstanding.

The storyline, while being straight forward, was actually a bit on the boring side. I caught myself looking at social medias a couple of times throughout the course of the movie. It just felt that it took writer and director Tiwa Moeithaisong forever to get from A to B.

As for the characters in the story, well let me just be the first to say that the character gallery was bland. In fact, it felt as if they were essentially all one and the same. It was hard to differentiate between the characters and notice where one character ended and the next one began. So on that account "The Sisters" was lacking tremendously.

However, there was some enjoyment to the movie. But keep in mind that this is by no account the most memorable or scary of ghost movies to make it out of the Thai cinema.

My rating of "The Sisters" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

Much better than I thought it would be.

[webmouse · 6/10 · 18 November 2006]

After watching many Asian horror films I am finally getting used to the genre. The Thai films are amongst the best for creepy, twisted tales with some erotic content. "Sisters" certainly filled that promise admirably.

The story is told in flashback form, which some would say breaks the suspense. I find the return to supposed safety of the "present" a welcome relief between scenes of terror. While flashback form can be a little jarring at first, once I got used to the film's pace, I was not bothered by the shifts.

There are elements of "The Ring" in this, but that just may be an eastern cultural similarity, coupled with what you can do with limited funds and a camera. Like many other Thai horror films, this one does not strive to be funny nor seek redemption.

One other blessing -- "The Sisters" is dubbed in English. Being able to listen rather than read greatly added to my enjoyment of the film.

Hardly original,but still watchable.

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 8/10 · 16 December 2006]

A group of teenage rock musicians-five boys and one girl-arrive in Bangkok for a concert.They end up staying in a strange hotel room where eerie things begin to occur.When it starts to get hot in the Room 409,they remove the ceiling vent.Each person who looks up into the duct suddenly flees.Turns out that they all see the ghost of a Tulip hotel prostitute that was brutally beaten and killed in Room 409.She was even decapitated, and the police found her head in the air conditioning system.Each of the musicians is cursed and some of them will die..."The Sisters" is hardly original.It borrows heavily from "Ringu" and "Ju-on" and what's is even more interesting it features some obvious nods to "Suspiria".However the film is actually pretty creepy and offers a little bit of gore.Give it a chance.