Tomb Watcher Review: When Ros finally gets the happiness of getting Cheev to herself, she can’t wait to spend time together at his vacation home. However, what awaits the happy couple is his late wife’s corpse and a path of revenge that threatens to destroy everything and everyone.
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Tomb Watcher Movie Cast
Woranuch Bhirombhakdi, Thanavate Siriwattanagul, Arachaporn Pokinpakorn
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Tomb Watcher Thai Movie Director
Oat Vatanyu Ingkavivat
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Original Title
สุสานคนเป็น
The film has a runtime of 92 minutes.
Tomb Watcher Review
The central conflict of the Thai horror film Tomb Watcher is that Cheev has to live with his deceased wife’s dead body for 100 days to inherit everything and live happily with his mistress. It’s a questionable choice to put into a will, more so when your cheating husband brings his mistress to live with your dead body for 100 days. It’s choices like this that I don’t understand, and neither do I understand why some women settle for less. It’s like the bar is non-existent.
My personal rant about the dating scene aside, it’s not difficult to want Lunthom to destroy Cheev and Ros’s lives in this horror film, only because they are such terrible characters. You wish to become a ghost for the sole purpose of haunting them at times. Their cocky and unsympathetic demeanour draws your ire like nothing else, making you revel in their misery.
However, I say “their” out of personal bias. The film somehow doesn’t haunt Cheev in any way, and only the other woman gets Lunthom’s ire. I don’t understand the logic necessarily, but maybe making Cheev deal with a crazed girlfriend who is scared out of her mind isn’t the worst of ideas out there either. The film does a great job of increasing the stakes at every turn as Ros’s hauntings go from bad to worse and leave her questioning her sanity.
But I think the best part of the film is its messaging. I think most films focus on the cheating in a very different way, killing the husband and the mistress and whatnot. So I found it interesting that Tomb Watcher gave the mistress the chance to walk away from the mess, but her refusal led to Lunthom making the decisions that she did. Cheev never had a chance of walking away because he was forever bound to his wife. Sometimes, the biggest revenge isn’t death, it’s staying alive in perpetual pain.
The ending is quite interesting in this film, and I think that’s what sets it apart from similar films. Although the scares aren’t particularly impressive, mostly relying on jump scares, I think the base storyline is very interesting, and the ending’s implications will leave most viewers shocked and scared.
Final Thoughts
Tomb Watcher might feel like a generic horror, but the discussions around infidelity, love and the consequences of cheating on the person you love and harming them to gain something invoke a type of fear that will stay with you. With great performances and a haunting atmosphere, this one’s a good watch despite some generic and clichéd sequences.
Tomb Watcher Ending Explained (Spoilers)
In the end, Lunthom gives Ros a chance to walk away from her relationship with Cheev and leave them alone. But when she refuses, begging Lunthom to leave her and “her man” alone, the ghost realises that she will not disentangle herself from her husband and will revel in the happiness of stealing someone else’s husband. Thus, in the last scene, Lunthom is cuddling Cheev, who is no longer possessed by his wife’s spirit, and looks very distressed, while Ros is lying beneath the coffin, with the fluids from their bodies dripping down on him. It possibly implies that she will never come first and always get their “leftovers”, forever bound to them in this manner.
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