The influence of hauntings past can be felt so strongly in Ladda Land that they register less as echoes than as outright grafts given a modern antiseptic sheen. There have been other films this derivative to work successfully, but the film lifts them so joylessly that it feels less like a loving throwback than a dutiful homage paid (something like the yearly tribute in The Cabin in the Woods). There are a few eerie images, to be sure, but nothing to breathe any life into the warmed-over story.
The title refers to a gated community in Thailand, residence in which suggests some measure of financial success and social stability. But since there has to be a movie here, not everything is as it seems, which is quickly discovered by the new family in the neighborhood, composed of father Thee(Saharath Sangkapreecha), mother Parn (Piyathida Woramusik), teenage daughter Nan (Suthatta Udomsilp...
The title refers to a gated community in Thailand, residence in which suggests some measure of financial success and social stability. But since there has to be a movie here, not everything is as it seems, which is quickly discovered by the new family in the neighborhood, composed of father Thee(Saharath Sangkapreecha), mother Parn (Piyathida Woramusik), teenage daughter Nan (Suthatta Udomsilp...
- 8/16/2012
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
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...
- 12/21/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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