Shakespeare Must Die

“This ‘Shakespearean horror movie’, a tale of politics and black magic, translated into Thai directly and exactly from The Tragedy of Macbeth, with some cinematic and Thai cultural adaptations, takes place in two parallel worlds: inside the theatre, the world of the play about the ambitious and bloody general who becomes king through murder, and the ‘outside world’ in the contemporary lives of a non-specific country’s superstitious, megalomaniacal and murderous dictator, known only as ‘Dear Leader’, and his scary high society wife. Banned by the Thai government censors as a threat to national security.” (Ing K)