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Meat Grinder

Original title: Cheuuat gaawn chim
  • 2009
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
1.2K
YOUR RATING
Meat Grinder (2009)
Mai is a deranged woman who runs a noodle stall and is hearing voices in her head all the time. When she finds a dying man in her stall one night, she gets the idea to chop him up, and grind the body parts into meatballs as ingredients for her noodle soup. It turns out to be a popular dish, and as the stall gets more and more business, she must find a steady supply of fresh human meat to feed her customers..
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A poverty stricken woman starts a restaurant where she slaughters people and serves up human flesh, cut from her victims.A poverty stricken woman starts a restaurant where she slaughters people and serves up human flesh, cut from her victims.A poverty stricken woman starts a restaurant where she slaughters people and serves up human flesh, cut from her victims.

  • Director
    • Tiwa Moeithaisong
  • Writer
    • Tiwa Moeithaisong
  • Stars
    • Mai Charoenpura
    • Rattanaballang Tohssawat
    • Wiradit Srimalai
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    1.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Tiwa Moeithaisong
    • Writer
      • Tiwa Moeithaisong
    • Stars
      • Mai Charoenpura
      • Rattanaballang Tohssawat
      • Wiradit Srimalai
    • 25User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations total

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    Mai Charoenpura
    Mai Charoenpura
    • Buss
    Rattanaballang Tohssawat
    • Attaphol
    • (as Rattanabanrang Tosawat)
    Wiradit Srimalai
    • Lek
    • (as Weeradit Srimalai)
    Atitaya Shindejanichakul
    • Aoi
    Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul
    Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul
    • Nida
    Somlek Sakdikul
    • Proprietor
    • (as Somchai Sakdikul)
    Chaiyot Tushsanasuwan
    • Subordinate 1
    Shiny Khunthong
    • Subordinate 2
    Somchat Prachathai
    • Stepfather
    Thanatorn Oudsahakul
    • Plainclothes Policeman
    Jiratchaya Jirarajagit
    • Bua
    Kittiphit Tamrongweenijchai
    • Inspector
    • (as Kittiphit Tamrongweenitchai)
    Archan Chaisuwan
    • Berm
    Arachaporn Ngarmthed
    • Chart's Mother
    Akradech Maneeploypech
    • Attaphol's Father
    Mathanee Pandee
    • Buss (Childhood)
    Nontacha Boonsay
    • Berm (Childhood)
    Kamonwan Poonmas
    • Attaphol's Friend 1
    • Director
      • Tiwa Moeithaisong
    • Writer
      • Tiwa Moeithaisong
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews25

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    8redrobin62-321-207311

    Make Sure To Watch The Uncut Version Only!

    I'm trying to do my part to help raise the rating of this film on IMDb. 5.4 is really too low for a film this graphic, intense and psychologically unnerving. I recently got my hands on the regular cut and the 'Uncut' cut and the difference is like watch 'Barney & Friends' and 'Scarface'. Okay, that's a bit of a stretch, but you know what I mean.

    The cut version is still relatively graphic, but because it is so heavily altered, a few scenes will make more sense once you see a little more backstory as in the full version.

    There's nothing sexual about this movie so it can't be compared to torture porn. The focus here is the killings. They're intended to shock you right out of the room. It's a shame the cut version is so heavily butchered because you lose a lot. The uncut version I had was dubbed with a Russian male voice, but once I downloaded an English srt and synced it in Media Player Classic, it made more sense.
    jennifer-25-965231

    Beautiful Film

    This is a beautifully gruesome film. The visuals and music in this movie are amazing and draws you into this woman's life of mental anguish and bad luck.

    The Meat Grinder is almost like your basic torture gore fest but Tiwa Moeithaisong makes it so much more then that and turns it into an enthralling, vibrant film that sucks you in entirely and plays with your emotions. This is a very sad, beautiful, spell binding film about a woman in love facing the demons of her past.

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    6HorrorDisasterGuy-90617

    Disjointed story, but decent psychological slasher movie

    This is a decent splatter movie that I watched. The story isn't anything too special with it being similar to other splatter movies out there, and the idea of a cook servicing up humans has been done before. But the movie does a good job of being both a slasher and psychological horror movie. It goes into but mind how she was treated in her backstory and how it drove her to doing the stuff throughout the movie. The movie is the struggle that she goes through and how it affects her mental state with her snapping in any part of the movie. Also, the movie tackles the themes of mental illness and the mistreatment of women, which the movie tackles pretty well on how it was executed. One flaw I have is that it feels disjointed on the pacing of it because it feels like things just happened and sometimes hard to follow what's going on in this movie. Also, there is a lot of weird editing in the movie that tries to show off her mental state, but it's weird when it happens. The ending itself is something that I try to figure out. I am going to focus on one of them because the rest aren't that interesting. But is a disturbed woman who has a violent past and has problems with her mental state. The movie does a good job of building her with her background and how she is treated throughout the movie. It goes into deeper with her mental state on how she snap by killing people and even serving them up to her customers. Even the relationship between the people she has with is a mixed bag on how she handled herself.

    Meat Grinder is a mixed bag splatter movie that does a good job with its psychological horror and slasher elements. But the story feels disjointed in some areas.
    8krakanova

    Watch A Romantic Torture Porn

    Wow. The film surprised me. I thought I would leave a comment because this film has so few reviews. This was a very romantic torture porn with a crazy woman who runs a restaurant and slashes her customers' or adversaries' calves and puts them up on meathooks as if Leatherface. But this is not The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and this is not Saw or Guinea Pig.

    The film is worth watching for the visuals and great operatic music. The primary colors of blood and blue are saturated and the director makes what is boring about these types of movies vibrant. It is very eye magnetic.

    I have found torture pornographies to be very dull and exploitative in a way that I do not like (e.g. Hostel 2), but this was different. And it is one of only three Thai horror films that I like. Check it out.
    4Breumaster

    Raw and Excessive Torture for It's Own Sake

    There are poor and unrealistic excuses for all the shown torture. All seems very artificial constructed for the sake of showing torture and pain. The worst is the story telling, which is chaotic nonsense. Add some classical music elements and there will be people who are delighted about this "piece of art". Even though the torture effects are obviously handmade, which highers the realism a little bit, there are no insects shown in that blood coated scenario. No flys, no ants, no cockroaches, not anything - just bloody pain with an artificial forced kind of poor story and characters who are very unlikeable. Like all the unrealistic things which are shown, the motives of the characters are exaggerated to the maximum to force the impression that those characters would have a good excuse for their behavior, but they are just very sick. The one and a half hour felt one hour longer than it played. I recommend this movie for people who have too much time and like gore, no matter what.

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    • Trivia
      This movie had the uncut version, which was 1 hour and 43 minutes
    • Soundtracks
      Fascination
      Lyrics by Manas Pitisarn

      Music by Manas Pitisarn

      Performed by Srisalai Suchartwut

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    • Release date
      • March 19, 2009 (Thailand)
    • Country of origin
      • Thailand
    • Language
      • Thai
    • Also known as
      • Мясорубка
    • Production company
      • Pranakorn Films
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $393,583
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 32m(92 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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