Their horror film was banned as a national security threat, so this Thai couple opened their own cinema

What would you do if the government banned your films? In Thailand, a husband and wife team responded by building their own cinema. Manit Sriwanichpoom and Ing Kanjanavanit (who goes by Ing K) had made a horror film in 2011 called Shakespeare Must Die, based on the Thai translation of Macbeth. A theatre troupe staged the Scottish Play in the film and they all came to a gruesome end because their vengeful government was sensitive to certain similarities between Shakespeare’s bloody tyrant...

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