Ladda Land (Thai)
Synopsis:
The story involve a family of four moved from the city, Bangkok and live in a high-class suburban of gated community. The family has also their internal personal problem where the father is struggling to provide his wife and children a better life as his mother-in-law constantly nag and complaints of his incompetence to provide better life for them. Also, their eldest daughter having living most of her time with her grandmother, blames his father for sending her there since she was a child and also to move away from Bangkok and settle in this remote place. After awhile of living there, the gated community is shocked with a sudden murder of a young maid inside one of the bungalows. The young maid was killed and stuffed inside the refrigerator for days before being found by the police. After the murder, strange things start to happen around the gated community where the ghost of the maid roams around.
Review:
This was suppose to be a true story of a haunted gated community in Ladda Land in Chiang Mai. However, after look up in the internet, there is a place called Ladda Land and instead of a community housing area, it is actually a big garden but was deserted a long time ago where people sometimes heard some eerie sounds. So, actually there is no revelation to the movie whatsoever apart from the name of the movie.When i first watch it in the cinema, i didn't have much expectation except for some cheap old school shock with lame storyline. After watching numerous Thai horror movies with the exceptions of the best horror movie Shutter , 4bia & its sequel, there isn't any other movie worth mentioning. However, to my surprise this is one horror movie not to be missed as the running time is a little over the 2 hours mark due to its character development and the scare is genuinely scary. I could almost feel my hair standing in the back of my neck in some of the scene. It is not a straight forward movie but it was wrapped out nicely with good story line and amazing scare tactics. The director is a genius in using lighting and sound effect to make viewers felt the chill especially when we are in a big dark cinema with cold air-condition blowing down towards us. I would say that this film is on same par with Shutter although shutter really won ahead by marginal points on the scary make-up but Ladda Land is way up my list of an all time horror movie.
Verdict:
I give this movie a 4.5 star out of 5 due to its original idea, good story flow, great scary moments - many of them and good wrap up of the movie with great acting.
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