A mentally challenged woman is on a train, and since she didn’t buy a ticket and can’t pay, the train conductor throws her off the train, and she finds herself in a hellish place known as Prompiram. She will never return alive after visiting this dump of a village because there are a lot of toothless men there who are not tamed, you know, like most country bumpkins.
“The Macabre Case of Prompiram” is a sad movie that is unfortunately based on true events that happened in Prompiram in 1977, where around thirty toothless country bumpkins attacked and sexually abused a mentally challenged woman before they killed her.
We follow two cops who are investigating the case, and they will get a wake-up call and discover how corrupt and sick the world is. To make the investigation more difficult for them, a rat—meaning a politician—will make it harder for them to discover the truth and spread the word since it can ruin his chances of being reelected. He is just your friendly, false piece of a politician who is a worthless human piece of fish. Sorry, he’s not human at all!
Compared to other dark movies based on true crime stories, “The Macabre Case of Prompiram” shows more class than other Asian movies I have watched. This is a movie that’s made from the heart, but it’s far from perfect since the woman doesn’t have any character depth. She is pretty; we hear that she’s looking for her husband who disappeared four years ago or so. I’m not sure if she’s a mother to a young boy we see in a scene. That’s all the information we get, and the movie doesn’t bother to tell us how the investigation went when the end credits appear on the screen. That’s lazy!
What happened is so sick and disgusting, and you will hate toothless country bumpkins after watching the movie. The movie tries in a few scenes to incorporate some humor, and the most bizarre attempt is when the doctor in the village checks the condition of the woman and describes her private parts, telling the other guy that it’s very tempting. That kind of dialogue gave me a hard slap in the face, and I hope that the subtitles were wrong. If not, it’s despicable and not funny! And there are some inadvertently funny scenes when the country bumpkins come running like cavemen and throw off their clothes. It’s not supposed to be funny at all, but it’s so bizarre to sit there and watch this mayhem on the screen when these toothless, ugly demon men lose their minds because of an innocent woman. I think there must be a lot of inbreeding in the village they call Prompiram.
The acting is decent, but it’s not a movie you will remember for the acting. You will remember what happened to the poor woman, and you will never visit this village if you are a tourist and have some morals. It can’t be a coincidence that there were so many wild and untamed so-called men in this village. Stay away from Prompiram!