When it comes to supernatural storytelling, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit is something truly special. The Thai native just has a wave of weaving together interesting and engaging stories. The mastermind behind such successful series as 609: Bedtime Story and The Eclipse, her 2015 film Red Wine in the Dark Night (คืนนั้น)is a testate to her creativity.

Natouch Siripongthon (Fluke) is one of my favorite Thai actors. Until We Meet Again is one of my favorite series, and he just radiates sweetness. He’s got a bright smile and this forever-innocent persona that reminds me of Peter Pan. He’s the kind of guy you want to scoop up and protect from the evil of the world because he’s just too sweet to let the world ruin. 

Then I watched this movie. Yeah, he doesn’t need me (or anyone else) to take care of him. Boy’s fine.

Wine (Siripongthon) is a young man in college who has terrible taste in the men he sleeps with. The film starts with Wine having sex with his boyfriend, Tee (Intarasuan Nontapat). Closeted, Tee dumps Wine after penetrating him and getting his rocks off. In short, Tee might have been using Wine’s, but trust me… he’s the asshole.

Heartbroken and Downtrodden, Wine waits for Tee to come back to him. He’s so desperate for love that when Tee’s friends (who are also colossal assholes) tell Wine to meet his beloved in an abandoned building, he rushes at the the chance – even though he’s afraid. However, Tee never shows up. However, Wine does meet Night (Isarapong Furher, Stephen), a young man who has lost his memory and ends up being a vampire.

Desperate for love, Wine forms an instant and deep connection with Night and night seems to share Wine’s feelings.

Thus begins Wine’s descent into madness.

Wine and Night in the bath

Knowing that the only thing that won’t make Night sick is blood, Wine goes out in search of just that. One of his sources is Tee, whom Wine decides to chain up in the abandoned building, and his friends tricked him into waiting. Now, if it had just been Tee, I would’ve been all “Good for you, sweetheart! That closeted piece of trash deserves it for hurting you!”

But it wasn’t just Tee. Wine goes full-on Lizzie Borden and kills a man who honestly just wanted to love him. But, he doesn’t kill Tee. He keeps him alive, so he can continue to drain him. This decision proves to be his undoing when Tee’s friends alert the authorities that he’s missing. When Tee’s friends find him alive, he leads them to Wine, who is arrested. Upset Wine was killing for him, Night leaves, but he does promise to return for him.

Directed by writer Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, the film is a total trip that leaves you wondering if Night was even real or just a part of Wine’s spiral into madness after Tee broke his heart.

10/10 – because I’m honestly afraid Fluke in this film.

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