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Boa... Nguu yak!

2006 film by Chaninton Muangsuwan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ13026774
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Boa... Nguu yak! also known as just Boa and Constrictor, is a 2006 Thai horror monster film directed by Chaninton Muangsuwan and stars Pimpan Chalaikupp and Sittha Lertsrimonkol.

Synopsis

A group of teenagers journey by balloon to a remote forest in search of a friend who's gone missing after his trip that he took for a film project. En route, a brutal storm takes them down in the middle of the forest. The teenagers are forced to take shelter in a dark cave, unaware that an unusual creature is silently resting there. It is not too long before they discover the terrible thing deep inside the cave, a ferocious and enormous Boa. They have no choice but to fight for their lives.

Cast

Pimpan Chalaikupp as Nattacha

Sittha Lertsrimonkol as Soet

Kiratikorn Ratkulthorn as Phrae

Nophand Boonyai as Khin

Tawngrak Assawarat as Sida

Phoophan Khannathap as Go

Release

The film was released in Thailand on April 27, 2006, in the Philippines on November 1, 2006, and in Kuwait on October 8, 2009. As of 2018 there are no plans for it to be released in the United States.

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The public source identifies “Boa... Nguu yak!” as 2006 film by Chaninton Muangsuwan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nguu, film and Chaninton.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2009, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006-04-27. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nguu, film and Chaninton providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Boa... Nguu yak!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.