A group of travelers visiting the exotic forests of Thailand is suddenly attacked by a multi-weapon wielding maniac. Some manage to escape others perish under his merciless blows.The maniac is the Spirited Killer a forest dweller who kills anyone who steps into his jungle. Leading the pack to help stop this madman is Tony Jaa (Ong Bak) making his film debut.System Requirements:Running Time: 85 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SPORTS/GAMES/MIXED MARTIAL ARTS Rating: NR UPC: 787364678495[]
Complete SNAFU - nice goin' Mill Creek!
All three films in this collection are defective. The first SPIRITED KILLER is presented with a choice of English dubbing or the original Thai language audio - but there are no English subtitles and the English dubbing is unusually bad.
SPIRITED KILLER 2 and 3 are screwed up differently. They are presented only in Thai and do have perfectly adequate English subtitles - but they forgot to letterbox the "scope" ratio films. The end result is that both films are stretched out to 16x9 making everything appear unnaturally tall and skinny. SPIRITED KILLER 1 it should be noted is properly letterboxed in the 16x9 frame.
Bonus points are awarded for referring to the Thai language as "Taiwanese" not once not twice but THREE times on the DVD cover. It shows how much work went into this release that not only are ALL the films on the DVD screwed up but Mill Creek can't even correctly identify the language spoken in the films' country of origin. Don't buy this release... unless you plan on downloading subs for the first film then re-encoding and re-authoring the whole package yourself.
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This movie is a scam!
Don't be fooled by the cover. I bought this movie because I am a fan of Ong-Bak and The Protector. As soon as the movie started I was dissappointed. The voice-overs were absolutely horrendous and the captions would not even come close to what you actually heard. But stillI thought it has Tony Jaa in it so the fighting will probably be good.!!Wrong!! In one of the reviews it says that Tony Jaa was at the end. I never even saw him at any point in the entire movie. As a matter of fact the pictures on the packaging are from Ong-Bak. On the inside casing it has a picture of Jaa's mentor Rittikrai and on the opposite side it has a picture of him again with Jaa's head pasted on. You can tell because they're wearing the same jacket. A jacket that Rittikrai is the only one to wear in the movie.Tony Jaa's name never even appears in the credits.
Unless you like to buy things that are an absolute liestay very far away from this product. Hopefully the companies that have been fooled into selling this product become aware of it and seek retribution on the people who fabricated this scam.
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