The Hospital

More Thai mini-series may to be shot on film

Making short-form television drama that will also be released in the VCD or DVD format is a new trend emerging in Thailand and one that is likely to lead to more projects being originated on film for reasons of quality.

	Director of The Hospital Bandit Thongdee.

A recent example of a short-form television drama is the mini-series The Hospital, which is billed as a ghost story with a twist by production company Yoho Film.

“The Hospital is a complex mixture of imagination versus reality. It is about a group of people who are sent to a hospital after an accident, only to meet up with already-dead patients begging for their help,” explained seasoned director Bandit Thongdee, who is well known for his many works in the ghost genre in Thai cinemas. “A hospital has a scary connotation to it. It is a sometimes dark and dreary place where people come to die or are dying.

“When Director of Photography Sittipong Kongthong and I set out to do this project, our objective was to create suspense and fear in the audience, but in a subtle way in terms of story telling. The only way we could achieve this was by using Kodak film. Film provided the realism we wanted, so we could be as delicate as we could. We needed film’s depth of field in certain crucial scenes to excite the interest of the audience, as we will be using very little special effects when compared to other horror films.”