todmichel wrote:
I have the German VHS version, but do you know how much versions exist exactly? it seems that at least two different Asian versions were made, plus some international version(s), and some sources mentions than CHORAKE was made around stock-shots of an earlier Thai crocodile movie...
I know of only two legitimate versions, the Thai original and the heavily altered Dick Randall produced International version which re-structures the film and has different music. Both versions have scenes and special effects footage unique to them. I have seen a slightly different third version of the film on a VCD that a friend bought for me in Indonesia when he toured there a few years back. It is basically the international edit of the film but with video generated Thai credits crudely spliced in at the beginning and end. It also has a new Indonesian dub track hapazardly added to the film. I didn't look at this VCD to closely and I just assumed that it was the original Thai edit which caused me to mistakenly write on a thread at Latarnia that there wasn't a great deal of difference between the Thai and international versions. Shame on me. 

Some sources on the web say that CHORAKE was made using large sections of an earlier Thai/Korean production but that is incorrect. I think this stems from the fact that the IMDB has two different entries for the film one of which lists a purely Korean cast and crew and another which just has the standard international credits. The two entries are linked here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079011/
and here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377707/

CHORAKE was as International production co-produced between South Korea, Sompote Sangduenchai's (aka Sompote Sands) Chaiyo Productions in Thailand, and I think Hong Kong. Dick Randall might have also had financial interest in it as well and there were possibly a few other countries involved.

I am still trying to determine who actually directed the film. The International version credits Sompote Sands as the director but I have my doubts about that. I have a transcript of the credits on the Hong Kong print of the film and it lists a certain K. Sagawa as the director with Sands (under his real name Saengdunchai) credited as the "director of special effects"as well as being one of the producers and I think that is probably closer to the truth. Meanwhile the Korean Movie Database entry for the film (under the title "The Horror of the Alligator) has it's own set of credits which lists only the Korean actors and personal with the director being named as Lee Won-se. I would take most of those credits with a grain of salt however.
http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=03171&searchText=alligator

The Korean Movie Database often uses original advertising material when compiling cast and crew credits and it wouldn't surprise me if most of those Korean credits were merely slapped on for quota purposes or commercial reasons. The same problem extends to many other International co-productions listed on the Korean Movie Database.

PS: The synopsis for the film given at the Korean Movie Database often differs wildly from the content of both the Thai and International versions of film implying that the Korean release version may have been it's own unique edit.

God this is confusing.

Last Edited By: Dr Stinson Jul 21 11 10:46 PM. Edited 3 times.