PLOT SUMMARY: Gla and Wee, two doctors, set to prove ghosts exist after encountering one in the hospital where they work.
Ghosts, you either believe in them or you don't.
It's just an idea of what happens to souls after death. Do they wander about? And if they do, what makes them stay in one place and visit only some people but not others?
Two doctors, Wee and Gla, set about to find the answers.
GHOST LAB Movie Plot
The two doctors have a decent life working at the hospital. Gla has a girlfriend, Mai, is doing well at his job and is popular in the hospital. Wee is the quiet one and spends most of his time with his comatose mother at the hospital. He apparently spends his paycheck on her.
One night, a nurse mentions an emergency case of a burn victim who passed away. The incident set in their mind and as they work the late-night shift, they grab snacks, unaware their life is about to change in a few moments.
Soon enough, Gla stutters and stumbles when he gestures to something behind Wee. The two doctors are stunned to see the burn victim behaving like a robot and cracking and creaking his bones. The ghost has made an appearance to the security guard as well but there's no mention of what happened to him and how he reacted to this incident later.
When the ghost disappears, the two doctors head over to check the security cameras and realize that the camera didn't catch the ghost. But they had seen it and are convinced the hospital is haunted.
From then on the two doctors set up a small lab in the basement of the hospital where they record results of the experiments.
They monitor temperature changes, see wheelchairs bumping around others in the passages but can't find anything concrete yet.
Wee and Gla are happy to see some poltergeist activity but yearn to see a real ghost and wonder why some ghosts visit them and others don't.
They believe it is when the living person has a connection with them that their ghost then comes to visit them.
Wee then receives a call that his mother has suffered a major setback. He has to make a heartbreaking choice and let her go. As soon as she dies, Wee is visited by his mother who moves her mouth and us crying but can't understand her words. He becomes desperate to know what she was saying.
Gla gets encouraged and devises a plan to get terminal ill patients to bond with them so that they can visit them and the two doctors can advance their research.
Gla, even though he has a girlfriend, flirts with a cancer patient. Wee isn't too happy to exploit people who are dying.
Wee, meanwhile is stumbling deep into depression and comes up with a dangerous plan to kill himself so that he can be the one to come back and then Gla can record the findings.
Gla is horrified and initially against the idea but Wee insists, growing obsessed with finding out what his mother was saying.
Gla proposes they play a coin toss game to decide since the research and experiment was his idea and perhaps he should be the one to die. Wee wins the coin toss and prepares to kill himself.
He takes a gun and his life flashes before his eyes. He sees his mother and hears her voice as she asks what the two of them are doing. Wee gets cold feet and can't pull the trigger.
Gla comes over and when he sees his friend in agony over killing himself, takes the gun and shoots himself. Wee is horrified when he sees his friend on the floor.
Gla is dead, and Wee is in mourning bit he is mystified as to why his friend hasn't come to visit him. He logs an entry and apparently 90 days have passed since Gla's suicide. His girlfriend Mai is distressed and can't understand why her positive, and brimming with life boyfriend, killed himself.
Wee stays mum.
Realizing that the research isn't advancing, Wee decides he has failed and goes up on the roof to kill himself. He has lost his mother and best friend after all. He starts to fall backward when his tie is pulled. Wee is excited to find that his friend is here and is going to protect him.
He also hypothesizes that Gla appears only when Wee puts himself in danger. Wee pretends to cut his little finger only for Gla to intervene and throw away the cutting device.
Wee is happy to see his friend responding although a nurse notices that he has been behaving suicidal.
Soon enough Gla stops responding and Wee gets desperate again. He tries cutting off his finger and this time his friend doesn't help him. Wee is warned by his superior about cutting off his limbs and fingers.
He runs into Mai who is still heartbroken about Gla and asks Wee where the red laptop is. Wee lies and Mai goes away. But when Wee goes into the basement, the laptop is nowhere to be found.
It is in the possession of Mai.
Gla communicates with Wee via text messages which make Wee visit his mother and sister and sees a picture of Gla at the beach.
Later when he finds out Mai has the laptop, he goes to retrieve it and she cries.
GHOST LAB Ending Explained with Spoilers!
Gla communicates with Wee via text again and urges him to tell her the truth. Wee thinks it's a bad idea. He's in the elevator and Gla tries to stop him by getting the elevator to stop working. Gla is getting angrier and angrier and his strength is ripping through into the real world.
Wee barely manages to escape through the elevator which stopped on the dreaded 13th floor.
He logs about his experience and decides to get Gla angry to get a response. He calls Mai over on the pretense of telling her the truth but drugs her and threatens Gla that he would take advantage of his girlfriend if he doesn't show his true self.
Gla starts to get stronger with each strike until he reveals his form. Wee is happy but Gla pulls Wee into a dreamlike state and ponders on the monsters they've become as a result of this research.
Gla was taking advantage of a terminally ill patient, Wee was going to force himself on Mai, all for the sake of proving that ghosts exist.
The friends decide to forgo the investigation immediately. Wee sends in his findings to the magazine the friends wanted to be on the front cover of but is rejected.
Mai comes by later and tells Wee that while she was knocked out, she dreamed of Gla on the beach, holding the magazine with both him and Wee on the cover.
Gla has found peace but Wee wonders if perhaps it is a hint that he must continue with his research considering his friend was holding that magazine. Perhaps Wee will find less devious methods to conduct his investigation.
The movie had a lot of drama and some of the scenes that should have been shocking, like Gla being the one who commits suicide, play out almost like a comedy.
Then again there are scenes like Wee giving up only for Gla to save him at the last moment, which throws in a good surprise.
It is an interesting movie to watch nevertheless with only a few scenes that effectively provide the scares. The rest of the scenes lacked finesse and appeared to be almost comical.
Scare scale: 3/5
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