Graphy Animation Interview
PUBLISHED: 20 AUGUST 2024
WRITER: THANUT RUJITANONT
ฝนเลือด (Blood Rain) (2023) by Achitaphon Piansukprasert
ฝนเลือด (Blood Rain), a 73-minute animation directed by Achitaphon Piansukprasert which was the awarded winner of the Amazing Stoner Movie Festival 2023, will be released this Thursday 22 August 2024, in cinemas in Bangkok, Thailand. Through sauntering, endless rainfall, and vague sensations of being, Piansukprasert revives (and executes) the vampire Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fenu (1872). It is neither the body of Carmilla, Millarca, Marcia, nor Mircalla, the Countess Karnstein, who had the same mole on her neck that was brought back, but the apparition.
In the original book, the story revolves around a young woman Laura who visited Carmilla for the first time with horror at night when she was six. That meeting produced an impression which never had been effaced upon her mind. Throughout the book, the beautifully sentimental and haunting senses of atmosphere are narrated by characters, places, and events.
However, in Blood Rain, Piansukprasert penetrates the surface of storytelling and dives into Carmilla’s life, the life that is not written and exposed, and the time she concealed, disappeared and strolled at night. The film goes into abstraction with her mysterious travel no one exactly knows where she wandered and what she did.
The film gives an aesthetic appeal that is distinctly unique and different from the book: scanty light entering its shadowy atmosphere, the consciousness of being, Laura’s nightmare, and many more. The Vampire, who was born in the 17th century in Styria, became ghosts reanimated by Piansukprasert and visit you in darkness in the cinema in Thailand.
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