Somchai lit a cigarette, though the ‘No Smoking’ sign was stuck to the monitor with yellowing tape. He was the director, the star, and now—three years later—the sole survivor of Blood (2004). The film had premiered at a festival in Rotterdam, won a minor award, then vanished. A critic had called it “a slow, wet scream into a void.” Somchai had been proud of that.
He’d said something else, of course. Something in rough, street-level Thai that the European distributor had politely smoothed into poetry. The real words were: “His blood is already dry. I want new blood.” blood (2004 english subtitles)
Chris Terry ( Jacob Tierney ), a bisexual recovering addict and alcoholic, visits his sister Noelle ( Emily Hampshire ) after five years apart. Somchai lit a cigarette, though the ‘No Smoking’