This is not true, however. Instead, P is a mess of a movie. It starts out with Aaw (Suangporn Jaturaphut) as a young girl, ostracized at school for the belief that her grandmother is a witch. Turns out the kids aren’t all wrong, as Grandma soon teaches Aaw some ancient magic secrets one day after the girl is menaced by a P in the local swimming hole (’P’ meaning ‘ghost’ in Thai). Years later, Aaw is still pretty much friendless and now Grandma is sick. A friendly local suggests the girl head to Bangkok to earn money for Grandma’s medicine. Though nothing sounds good about this idea, Aaw goes for it.
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It’s an ambitious production to be sure, but it seems that maybe the makers bit off more than they could chew. It’s tough, for instance, to make a horror movie – a genre comfortable with exploitation – that criticizes the prostitution of minors in Bangkok and have it come off as something other than titill …
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