Description

When voluptuous high school girl Liu is kidnapped by a gang of thugs, her family turns not to the police for help, but to the superheroic, sword-wielding, virginal warrior Khun. His task is to infiltrate the apartment block Liu is being held in, rescue her from her captors and return her safely to her family. Making this rather more difficult, however, is the new, military-engineered strain of the SARS virus which has been released into the same building. No simple respiratory disease, this, the new super-virus transforms its victims into shambling, bloodthirsty zombies, and before long, Khun, his master, leather-clad military scientist Dr. Diana and Liu are battling their way through hordes of the undead. Let the bloodletting begin!

Given this very silly, very bloody film, nobody will ever be able to accuse writer-director Taweewat Wantha of thinking small. His martial-arts action horror sex-comedy creature-feature zips through a multitude of genres at a dizzying pace, even including a lengthy animated sequence. SARS Wars is a loopy, self-referential piece of work that relentlessly parodies pretty much everything in its path, nodding to a host of zombie films, plus more mainstream fare such as Star Wars and Kill Bill. Swords, gore and leather-clad women… what more could you want from a film? Oh, okay. It’s got a giant snake, too.

—Todd Brown

"…Stands out as one of the subgenre’s best, and certainly one of the better genre efforts to have come out of Thailand in recent times" - James Mudge, BEYOND HOLLYWOOD

Website

http://www.filmbangkok.com/khunkrabi/

Credits

Director: Taweewat Wantha
Screenplay: Sommai Lertulan, Kuanchun Phemyad, Uncle, Taweewat Wantha, Adirek Wattaleela
Cast: Suthep Po-ngam, Suppakorn Kitsuwan, Phintusuda Tunphairao, Lene Christensen
Producers: Kim, Adirek Wattaleela, Akaradech Maneeploypech
Distributor: Han Media