Phuket Festival
5 minutes, 1998
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In Thailand they call it the Phuket Vegetarian Festival, but it looks more like a meat market as temple goers test religious faith with a frightening array of unlikely implements stuck through their faces. Thousands of drugged-up locals take part in the festival in which for several days they walk on hot coals and stick everything from lamps to spear guns into their cheeks. Strong images.