Ghost Host, Ghost House (2022)

Unique Storyline with loveable cast

Kevin/Kawin (depends on subtitles) comes to Thailand to visit his aunt, uncle and cousins after 10 yrs. He's a ghost hunter on social media because his ex suddenly died while he was studying abroad and he wants a final conversation. Kevin's relatives are all ghosts who died right before Kevin's arrival-which he does not realize. Due to ghost rules they can't leave the property so they hire Pleum to do errands and help around the property. Romance is sweet between Pleum and Kevin but of course issues arise. More than kissing but not NC stuff either. The director's cut, a separate final episode, has a more sensual scene than the initial final episode. The whole cast did well, the ghosts have their own things to settle in this life as well. Some sadness but ends in a nice way.

Leia Mais

A Simple and Enjoyable Series

I placed a spoiler alert at the end of this review.

As I’ve stated before, I love series with a paranormal storyline. It had a great story concept, but the script is not perfect. However, the weak parts of the script did not stop me from enjoy the series.

The positive: The main thing I like about the script is it’s a ghost story that incorporates the BL couple development. The acting is decent considering most of the cast members are newbies. I also like how they portrayed their characters.

The negative: Unfortunately, the script started off very strong but begins to unravel by the middle of the series. This is where the plot holes become visible. There are also some aspects of the script that are underdeveloped. The last episode was a bit of a letdown which also has the 1 story element I hate. See potential spoiler alert at the end of this review if you want more info.

The in-between: The cinematography was good, but the special effects and make-up could have been better.




******Potential Spoiler Alert******

The script introduces one too many side storylines for an 8-episode series. They should have added more episodes to develop them properly or not introduce so many in the first place. I wish they picked a few key storylines and fully develop them. Although the last episode has a happy ending, it was weak. It also had an unnecessary time jump (3 years) which did not help the series.

Leia Mais

It's adorable!!!!

I don't understand how so many people disliked this series. I think it's important for us to have cutesy and diversified content for the LGBTQ+ community. I'd like to offer a few points here:

1) We can't either/or content. We need the cutesy stuff that explores deep issues but still remains light and fun. We can't have all intense or all light or all inoffensive or all controversial content.
2) We have to stop expecting LGBTQ+ content to be centered only around community issues. I'm queer as well, and as someone from the community, someone who's tired of having to watch straight content when I'm craving a particular genre, I LOVE shows like this. And, I love that Thai content creators are giving us so much diversified content without the need to make it only about the community. It's important to raise awareness, but it's also important to stress that most queer folx live just regular a*s weird lives. And, we need to embrace all of it.
3) There WAS a story. Did yall miss it? The story was that despite all of the pain and loss, two cute boys found each other. And, that we all go through difficult things, but we also find the good in our lives. Is that so hard to accept that the story is a meet cute horror flick? There's plenty of "straight content" that's like this, why's the objection only being raised with queer content?
4) They fell in love because they were both cute and attracted to each other. Please let's stop acting like dramatic things and moments need to happen for people to like each other. Can't we just be happy for the adorable stories.

Overall, the story was so cute. I could totally rewatch it. And I'm so glad I went ahead and watched it despite the negativity surrounding it.

Leia Mais

Not the greatest but not that bad either

From the trailer I kinda had hopes for this drama but it was okay. I mean..if you want to watch something light..then this is for you.

The story is nice..it's just the development of the story is slightly off. The actors are cute and the family as well encouraged me to continue this drama.

The main thing for me that I didn't like/understand is the fact that the reason why Kawin decided to do ghost hunting. It was only briefly explained. His friend who died had zero to very little importance in the story. Him being in it or not at all didn't make any difference to the story. So I wished on that point it was elaborated even further so that we could understand how Kawin felt when he left pluem thinking the same situation that happened with his friend would affect his recent relationship.

Right now, to me it felt quite foolish that he went away without saying anything to Pluem but then they meet again but there was no conversation about that situation.

But other than that, it was okay...I liked the interaction of the family and their sweet moments.

Leia Mais

Love the happy ending.

For me it was interesting story I really enjoyed. I definitely loved that happy ending, because who doesn't right. Also I enjoyed the fact, that it was not too spicy (you know what I mean), and just romantic. About acting... I think I have nothing to say, because it was really impressive in my opinion. All of them made great job. Anyway, I guess since half of 7. episode till like quarter of 8. episode I was ABSOLUTELLY confused. Like literally confused when in the beginning of 8. episode I went back on the very first second to make sure I didn't miss anything, because it was very confusing and in parts didn't make sense to me. I think it was mostly because it was too short for that kind of story, which in my opinion needs way more episodes to cover everything and explain the story properly. Especially those different stories in between. I need more details, ok? Like how is it possible Kevin's parents didn't know that aunt and uncle with cousins death. Or did they knew, but were like: "meh, let's not tell him, and let's send him to live with his relatives, so he can find out they are actually dead. Like what can go wrong". Another thing I need to know is the story of Piam and See-nam (hope I wrote it correctly). Like I need more answers in this and the rest of story in general.
In any case, I enjoyed it very much. It was cute and for random find when I didn't knew what to expect, I definitely was not disappointed. So yeah, I would recommend to give it a shot.

Leia Mais

The problem with BL: Storytelling!

If only we could have better editing and production in BL... So many times everything in a BL makes sense but the storyline. Plot holes, weird transitions, time jumps, sloppy characters, inconsistencies... It takes away so much, while it could have been sooo good. In this case, the chemistry between these rookie actors is off the charts. The plot is original, supernatural themed bl's are rare. The build up of the romance is stormy and messy but it makes sense. The problems are not with the main plot line in the beginning. It is the side stories that mess it up. There is an ex boyfriend that we know died, but we miss a full back story, as with the gl couple they seem to have thrown in there without telling us exactly where this came from. Since we BL lovers are romance and drama addicts, we need to know what exactly transpired to make them fall in love, how was their relationship and how did they die? The way these stories are brought is dangling a carrot, and then stuffing our nose with it. It comes down to bad choices in editing, wanting to put in too much while there's just not enough airtime assigned. It's a shame. Rating would have been at least 8 without these issues. Finally I want to add how beautiful Tod is. This boy is ethereal.

Leia Mais

Surprisingly good

This show starts out as silly ghost hijinks but it evolves into something actually sad and heartwrenching!
The ending doesn't quite carry the energy through and there was some drama that honestly wasn't needed, but the few episodes before the last really made a strong impression on me.

The relationship between Kevin and Pluem was ok, some awkwardness which you rarely can avoid but they seemed to actually enjoy touching each other which was fun to see. The supporting cast was fine and I enjoyed seeing all their storylines, however brief they were. The number of episodes didn't really leave too much space for them but there also wasn't anything that wasted my time.

Overall a surprising gem of a show!

Leia Mais

In all honesty, this series intrigues me quite a lot. Its not of the heavily themed horror genre but overall its great. I love the chemistry between the two main leads and how there is more trust and development between the two as compared to typical bls, especially the kiss scenes.
At first I didn't have any solid expectations, because horror movies don't appeal to me, but this one surprised me. Im glad it did, i usually find the horror genre boring but this one had a comedic and fun touch to it. Hats off to the script writers of this series.
100% rewatch worthy once completed because its adorable and the entire story line sounds good as well. Cant wait to complete this.

Leia Mais

Can We Say This is one of Best Thai BL???

I am so glad that i went into it without any expectation and loved it, bit to bit.

Even though it is a ghost story, but there is no "ghost secret", and it has solid positive and safe humor, warmth and above that great ACTING.

Usually you aspect over the top acting, loud music and typical elements of Thai elements, but this series toned down those elements and very calmly doing its job into this horror genre that actually managed to kept me hooked from first scene to last.

It has great production values, visual effects, background score, technical aspects, direction and above a writing that makes sense and solid understanding of what is happening. No confusion at all.

The series starts right into its game, introduces us to Adam's Family type family of four sweet gh*sts who is visited by their nephew Kevin, who is unknown to that fact that they are gh*st and start his journey to hunt ghost stories. Meanwhile, a family is helped by a handsome helper Pheulm, who is very low key flirting with Kevin and already having great chemistry. SO how this story will proceed and how this gonna end I am super excited.

But one things remains, that this is very few Thai Bl series, that is off to great start, and has so much potential. It is true, the things you least expect, exceeds your imagination the most.

So Ghost Host, Ghost Host, is one of a kind and I dare say at this point, but a gem already.

Leia Mais

Hmmm...

I am going to take this one slowly. Right now I am two episodes in and while more than half the cast is already dead - I want to add the sound effects guy to the list but, not have him show up in the afterlife. He needs to go straight to sound effect Hell where every move anybody makes is accompanied by a soundtrack designed by a three year old.

Like other reviews have stated - are the effects there to make this appear to be a horror-comedy? Is the pacing glacial because they didn't have enough material? When you have a good cast but, are missing some time filling material - that is when the ML needs to take a slo-motion shower or, greet someone at the door with hair still wet and wet towel still wrapped around him. Easy.

Anyway, not what I was looking for this evening so, I will park this one for a later viewing. Reviews show that this has promise. Maybe, the sound effects guy bites it by the end of episode 2 and makes the series instantly better...

Leia Mais