Macabre Case of Prom Pi Ram (2003)

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Macabre Case of Prom Pi Ram is a 2003 Thai murder investigation crime film directed and written by Manop Udomdej. Its storyline is based on the real-life rape and murder of 20-year-old anonymous young woman.

Background & controversy

Macabre Case of Prom Pi Ram is a dramatization on a true crime that took place in a rural hamlet known as Prom Pi Ram (alternatively spelled Prompiram or Phrom Phiram — northwest part of Phitsanulok province in upper central Thailand) between July and August 1977, when the unidentified young woman's corpse is found abnormally by the railroad tracks. It was a very scandalous case when it was discovered that it was true.

Later, the story of this case was inspired to become Prom Pi Lab (พรหมพิลาป; "the lamenting Phra Phrom" — while the real name of Prom Pi Ram mean "the idyllic town of Phra Phrom"), a novel by an experienced author and journalist Santi Svetavimala (under the pen name Natee Sitandon).

The film was shot mainly on location in Uthai Thani without filming in Phitsanulok, the actual crime scene to avoid conflicts.

When it will be released there has been some controversy. The Prom Pi Ram residents protested the use of the film's title Khonbab Prompiram (คนบาป พรหมพิราม; "the sin people of Prom Pi Ram"), owing they claimed that it would make society look at the Prom Pi Ram people as a bad person. Finally there was a mediation where the filmmaker changed the title to Keunbab Prompiram (คืนบาป พรหมพิราม; "the night of sins in Prom Pi Ram").

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