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21 December 2011 9:33 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

The recent popularity of Thai horror continues with “Ladda Land”, directed by Sophon Sakdaphisit, who also helmed the entertaining genre flick “Coming Soon”, as well as scripting Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom’s superb “Shutter” and “Alone”, and working on the hit “4bia” anthologies. Drawing upon an urban legend, the film relocates from the usual Bangkok setting to Chiang Mai, revolving around supernatural occurrences in a new upmarket housing estate and attempting to balance its ghosts with financial and domestic terrors. The film follows Saharat Sangkapreecha (“The Legend of Suriyothai”) as Thee, a marketing manager who leaves Bangkok to take a higher paying job in a new Chiang Mai area called Ladda Land, bringing with him his wife Parn (Piyathida Woramuksik, “The Sisters”), angsty 14 year old daughter Nan (Suthatta Udomsilp) and young son Nat (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk). Despite ongoing pressure from his nagging mother in law, Thee is determined to make »

- James Mudge

18 July 2011 2:46 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

To say that director Chatrichalerm Yukol thinks big would be a gross understatement. A bona fide Thai prince, Yukol makes films on an epic scale. His Suriyothai was a lavish spectacle that caught the attention of Francis Ford Coppola and he has since been working on a series of four films dedicated to a key figure from Thai history: King Naresuan.Yukol's cycle of four Naresuan films are by far the largest cinematic undertaking in Thai history with seemingly no expense spared to get the story right. This is old school cast-of-thousands stuff in a lavish period setting, all of it in service to the story of the man who freed Siam - which would later become Thailand - from Burmese control.The fourth and final »

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