"Actor: Pete Thongchua"

• Bangkok Haunted | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £5.11   |  Saving you £11.14 (289.35%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An old-fashioned omnibus spooker, Bangkok Haunted is framed by scenes in which three young, apparently modern Thai women sit in a deserted cafe on a rainy night and tell each other their own ghost stories. "Legend of the Drum" is closest in style to traditional Far Eastern horror, with an antique dealer troubled by a drum that seems to invoke the spirit of a girl who disappeared 80 years ago after befriending and then rejecting a hooded, disfigured outcast. "Black Magic Woman" is a more lurid tale in video nasty style, about a girl who uses an extract of corpses as an aphrodisiac perfume with unpleasant consequences for her lovers--who have spells of vomiting, demon possession or become psychotic ghosts. Oxide Pang, director of The Eye, takes over from Pisuth Praesaengaim for the final episode, "Revenge", about a cop investigating the death-by-hanging of a young woman with whom he was involved and learning nasty things in the process. Though each 45-minute story is a tad overextended, the film is full of genuinely creepy moments, ranging from delicate ghost scares to splatter gruel. --Kim Newman

• Lizard Woman | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A new scale of evil... Writer Kwanpilin (Roongrawee Borijindakul) has just finished her latest book a story about a evil lizard. One day on the way back to Bangkok she buys an old small wood box from a local villager and that's when the mystery begins. Kwanpilin comes face to face with strange illusions and a supernatural curse with lizards but no one believes her. Her boyfriend Vitool (Pete Thongchua) is a psychiatrist suggests she go see a doctor for some help but