Main cast: Thanapob Leeratanakachorn (Wee), Paris Intarakomalyasut (Gla), and Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich (Mai)
Director: Paween Purijitpanya

Thai ghost stories these days tend to veer towards shlock comedy or formulaic tales of long-haired pale female ghosts doing jump scares, but Ghost Lab tries to be both and a messy bromantic soap opera to boot, and the end result is some stew made by Paween Purijitpanya that has everything thrown in nilly-willy. Some may find the taste most delicious, others may make a face and call for the check.

We have Wee and Gla, two residents in a hospital that seems very empty for some reason. Clearly, the people in Thailand are very, very healthy, or they prefer going to their shamans for their treatments. Wee is the serious one, Gla is the more playful one, and while they are supposed to be brilliant, all these two seem to do is to jostle and prance around talking about things that suggest strongly that the people that call them smart likely haven’t met many actually smart persons.

Then, one day they see a ghost, and Gla reveals his own obsession with discovering what really happens after we die. The two then begin to research on the afterlife, and that’s basically the first third or so of this movie. Two admittedly cute guys, if one is into the whole clean-cut Asian teenybopper aesthetic, doing semi-serious things with awkwardly inserted moments of slapstick comedy and the occasional eye-rolling jump scare.

Finally, frustrated that they may be going nowhere, they experience an epiphany, and one of them eventually commits suicide in order to discover firsthand what happens at the other side, and contact the person still living to relay the findings. From that moment on, this movie becomes some kind of soap opera as the still-living guy starts channeling angst about missing the dead guy and doing his best to get the dead guy to contact him, primarily by trying to molest the dead guy’s sister (she’s still alive, just to make it clear) in order to force the dead guy to come back and stop him.

The climactic moment of this movie sees the still-living guy pinned under the naked corpse of the guy, and he doesn’t look too upset about that at all. I’m just saying.

I’m sure this movie will find its way into the hearts of people that are looking for a film equivalent to their favorite manly-man style of yaoi, but I personally think this one is a hot mess. The whole thing feels like it’d been filmed at the same time as the script was written, because the whole thing resembles parts of different scripts from different genre just spliced together. Watch for the cute guys doing dumb things together, I suppose, but don’t expect anything more from this tonally-confused mishmash of underwhelming tomfoolery.