Inhuman Kiss

{{short description|2019 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Inhuman Kiss | image = Inhuman Kiss.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | native_name = {{infobox name module|th|แสงกระสือ}} | director = Sitisiri Mongkolsiri | producer = Meo Boontamcharoen Sangar Chatchairungruang Yeonu Choi Utai Khunmkong Sirisak Koshpasharin Pornchai Wongsriudomporn | screenplay = Chukiat Sakveerakul | story = Sitisiri Mongkolsiri | based_on = | starring = Phantira Pipityakorn Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang Sapol Assawamunkong Surasak Wongthai | music = Chatchai Pongprapaphan | cinematography = Pithai Smithsuth | editing = Manussa Vorasingha Abhisit Wongwaitrakarn | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=yes|2019|03|14}} | runtime = 122 minutes | country = Thailand | language = Thai }}

'''''Inhuman Kiss''''' ({{langx|th|แสงกระสือ}}), also known as '''''Krasue: Inhuman Kiss''''', is a 2019 Thai supernatural horror film directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri. It was selected as the Thai entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thestandard.co/inhuman-kiss-best-foreign-language-film-award/|title=มติเลือก 'แสงกระสือ' ตัวแทนภาพยนตร์ไทยชิงรางวัลออสการ์ ครั้งที่ 92 ต้นปีหน้า|last=มีนานนท์|first=เก้า|date=23 September 2019|work=The Standard|language=th|access-date=23 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2020-oscars-thailand-selects-inhuman-kiss-international-feature-film-category-1244184|title=Oscars: Thailand Selects ''Inhuman Kiss'' for International Feature Film Category|last=Scott|first=Mathew|date=28 September 2019|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref> In 1940s Thailand, a ''krasue'' lives a normal life as a woman by day, but at night her head detaches from her body and seeks out for flesh and blood.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/netflix-falls-for-thai-horror-romance-krasue-inhuman-kiss-exclusive/5139642.article|title=Netflix falls for Thai horror romance 'Krasue: Inhuman Kiss'|last=Wong|first=Silvia|date=18 May 2019|work=Screen Daily|access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref><ref name=navarro>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3619838/6-hidden-horror-netflix-gems-stream-now/|title=6 Hidden Horror Netflix Gems to Stream Now!|last=Navarro|first=Meagan|date=17 June 2020|website=Bloody Disgusting|access-date=21 June 2020}}</ref>

==Plot== Four children - Jerd, Sai, Noi and Ting - play hide and seek in the forest at night. Noi and Sai hide inside the house rumored to contain the spirit of a Krasue that protects the forest. Sai encounters a krasue inside a wooden box.

Years later, Sai and Jerd stay in the countryside, while Noi is in Bangkok for his medical training. It is the time of World War II, and all the professional nurses have gone to Bangkok to care for the wounded, leaving teenagers like Sai help out at the local hospital. Jerd has a crush on Sai, to which she is obvious.

She meets Noi at the forest and reunites with him. A new love is rekindled between them. It is revealed that Noi and the tribe in his hometown have come to Sai's village to hunt down a krasue. The tribe leader tells everyone about how a female krasue can turn a female human into a krasue too while a male krasue (krahang) experiences severe pain in the initial stages of being a krahang where there is a high chance that a krasue can devour his guts.

She starts to see blood stains on her bed everyday which only gets bigger and darker with days. One day, she screeches in pain and sees her head detached from her body, flying in the air. She has turned into a krasue. She goes outside her house to catch prey and eat. After getting enough meat, she returns to her human form. Noi who witnesses this helps Sai get meat which makes them get closer. As a result of this Sai starts to ignore Jerd.

It is later revealed that Jerd knew she was a krasue all along and had only joined the krasue hunting tribe to misdirect them. When the tribe leader (who is also a krahang) hears about Jerd's disloyalty he turns Jerd into a grotesque krahang. When Sai visits Jerd he begs her not to leave him as she had planned to run away with Noi to Bangkok that evening.

Sai's father takes her to a mass movie theater in the village borders to show everyone that the rumors about her turning into a krasue at night are false. The monk whose guidance Noi has been following all this while reveals that in the ancient time a krasue, wife of a krahang, fell in love with a human who made her pregnant. The krahang who was furious killed both the Krasue and the human to avenge his broken heart. Thus, it is fate that every krahang shall fall in love with a krasue and kill her in the end by ripping her heart apart. This hints at the possibly that Jerd might kill Sai. The villagers are shocked to see Sai turn into a krasue and start chasing her with guns. Meanwhile an angry Jerd comes at Sai to kill her. Noi convinces Jerd not to kill her as she was his friend before anything else. Jerd decided not to kill her but the angry tribe leader kills him and move to kill Sai too when he is killed by the monk.

It is revealed that the krasue who had turned Sai into a krasue was actually Nual, the wife of the monk who had helped Noi all these days. He had helped Noi because he was guilty of locking his wife in a box in the forest to prevent her death and didn't want the same thing to happen to Sai.

Sai and Noi run to the river from which they can reach Bangkok. But it's too late as her body has completely been destroyed by the villagers. Noi still has hopes of saving her as she still has her head. The happiness doesn't last long as Sai is shot dead in her head by Jerd's parents.

==Cast== * Phantira Pipityakorn as Sai <ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-23|title=Rookies : 'มินนี่-ภัณฑิรา' ดาวรุ่งดวงใหม่ เปล่งประกายใน 'แสงกระสือ'|url=https://www.naewna.com/entertain/403317|access-date=2024-03-10|website=naewna.com|language=th}}</ref> * Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang as Noi <ref name="post today">{{cite web|url=https://www.posttoday.com/ent/movie-music/583750|title=ทีมงานฮอลลีวู้ดยก แสงกระสือ เป็นหนังรักที่ลงตัวและสวยงาม|date=19 March 2019|work=Post Today|language=th|access-date=21 June 2020}}</ref> * Sapol Assawamunkong as Jerd * Surasak Wongthai as Tad * Sahatchai Chumrum as Phaen * Sahajak Boonthanakit as Chalerm

==Reception== Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting recommended the film, writing: "''Inhuman Kiss'' does run a bit overlong and has a measured pace, but it builds into an insane climax."<ref name=navarro />

==Sequel== A sequel entitled ''Inhuman Kiss: The Last Breath'' ({{langx|th|แสงกระสือ 2}}) was completed in 2022 and released in Thailand on 30 March 2023.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thailand's 'Inhuman Kiss' sequel scores sales across Asia, Americas (exclusive)|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/thailands-inhuman-kiss-sequel-scores-sales-across-asia-americas-exclusive/5180108.article|date=14 March 2023|website=Screendaily.com|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230914100813/https://www.screendaily.com/news/thailands-inhuman-kiss-sequel-scores-sales-across-asia-americas-exclusive/5180108.article|archive-date=14 September 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ennxo.com/article/sang-ka-sue-2/|title=แสงกระสือ 2: ตำนานรักต่างสายพันธุ์ ครั้งใหม่กำลังจะเริ่มต้นขึ้น 30 มีนาคมนี้ในโรงภาพยนตร์|date=6 February 2023|work=ENNXO|language=th|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=9799992|title=Inhuman Kiss}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|id=krasue_inhuman_kiss|title=Inhuman Kiss}} {{Thai submissions for the Academy Award}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Inhuman Kiss}} Category:2019 films Category:2019 horror films Category:Thai horror films Category:2010s Thai-language films Category:Romantic horror films Category:Films set in the 1940s Category:Films set in Thailand Category:2019 Thai films