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Saharat Sangkapreecha, Piyathida Woramusik, Athipich Chutiwatkajornchai, and Sutatta Udomsilp in Laddaland (2011)

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Laddaland

23 reviews
7/10

Stay with it.

It could do with fifteen minutes knocking off the runtime but it does bare sticking with, though the very last five minutes are poor.
  • neilfrancis2
  • Sep 11, 2019
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6/10

Believe This! Won Best Picture.

This was award best picture, best actor & actress in 2012. I don't know if the awards are like our Oscars or not but hey, to each(country) his own. To me, run-of-the-mill horror flick with fast moving ghost images, some gore and blood, a spoiled teenage brat and the husband who got sucked into an 'amway-type' scheme for a employment. See this if you have nothing else planned. I saw it on n/f 9/25/2018.
  • gerryexdlr
  • Sep 26, 2018
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6/10

Tragic story, but more effort needed on the ghosts!

This movie could, and should have scored an 8. I haven't seen anything as gloomy in this in a long time. You really have an empathy for the characters & wish them nothing but a happy outcome. Do they get one? That would be a spoiler too far.

I mentioned earlier it should have scored an 8, the reason it didn't was because I felt more effort into making the ghosts look like, well ghosts! Most of the time they just look like actors that are acting ghostly, instead of using special effects to make them creepier.

This is a story of a new life with new prospects that go completely wrong. The acting is superb and the whole viscaral feeling of the movie is almost claustrophobic. It's a brilliant film that I would recommend to those that don't just look for blood, gore & cheap jump scares.
  • larrynuman
  • Jan 11, 2020
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It's not just another haunted house next door. No, really.

Know what's scarier than figures lurking in the corner? The fact that your efforts to bring your family together become the very reasons they are slowly turning against you. While Sophon Sakdapisit doesn't do much to bring anything original to the haunted house yarn Ladda Land, he effectively ventures into each of his characters' psyche, turns them into real people with real concerns, and successfully fleshes out their fears — whether of this world or those of beyond.

The title refers to a middle class subdivision in Chiang Mai, where a well-meaning man played by Saharat Sangkapreecha moves with his family to work for a drug supplement company. He has another reason for wanting to stay there — his mother-in-law hasn't forgiven him for marrying her daughter (Piyathida Woramusik) and makes his life miserable by rubbing in his faults and failures as a father to his two children. He's especially estranged to his 14-year-old daughter (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), who grew up spoiled by her grandma. But aside from that, everything's going well with the household — that is until a brutal murder occurs at a nearby house and scary things start happening.

It sounds standard but the narrative's arc from the near-perfect happiness of its characters and the world they inhabit to their slow and painful descent to paranoia and madness is near-perfectly smooth. Sakdapisit's skill in creating such trajectory is evident in how he begins the movie, with Sangkapreecha unpacking things and meticulously decorating the house, signifying his desire to start a new life for his family. It's a stark contrast to how it all ends, with bare and empty rooms except for a few objects thrown around, underpinning the tragic outcome despite the best intentions.

There's convincing performances from everyone involved, too. Sangkapricha plays it with such subtlety that even when his character acts like an idiot as required of horror films (Why not call the police first instead of venturing into a murder site alone?), he never comes off as annoying. Woramusik and Sakuljaroensuk's characters are also defined more than other horror movies care to carve out secondary roles.

As a horror film, Ladda Land teeters midway between the best to reach these shores and the worst of them. What's certain is that it works better when it focuses on the family rather than on the spooky things that go bump in the dark. It's wise enough to invest emotionally and ratchets up the tension so well that it even if it doesn't consistently bring in the scares, there's a constant feeling of anxiety.
  • Jay_Exiomo
  • Sep 25, 2011
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7/10

A decent into madness that I was happy to watch!!

  • lojitsu
  • Apr 19, 2017
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6/10

A Different Take on a Haunted House

I really enjoyed how this movie progressed, from a happy family (with a surly 14 year old) to a family simply trying to live. The story was pretty realistic, despite the scary parts, showing a family that wanted to be together. Throw in the scary parts, and you have a great movie. 6.5/10
  • sparklemeandu-09047
  • Oct 15, 2020
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7/10

Quite Scary

This is one of the more scarier horror movies i've seen. I've been meaning to watch it for a while and just got around to it. The special effects makeup was super tacky, but the jump scares were superb, made my heart flip a few times. The acting was okay i guess, it was believable. Pretty OK movie.
  • pamblueblue
  • Apr 13, 2022
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2/10

Ladda Land: And it started so promisingly...

I love Thailand, I like Thai food (Provided it's not too spicy) and I love Thai culture. Sadly I really don't seem to like the Thai movie industry. Being the big nerd that I am I looked into it and I've seen 13 Thai films and the highest they go is 5/10. Being even more of a nerd I can confirm the average rating is an astounding 3.0.

Ladda Land tells the story of a family who movies to essentially the Thailand equivalent of the suburbs. Before they know it odd occurrences begin to take place leading certain members of the family to believe that the village might be haunted.

From the start I was fairly interested, it was developing nicely enough for about the first half of the film but then it gradually deteriorates. It's not only that the plot begins to fall apart but the characters being severely and unforgivably unlikable. The husband especially thanks to one needless scene, the mother (Again one scene especially) and the stroppy teenage daughter. If I can't care about the characters then why should I care about what happens to them? It's simply bad writing.

I like some of the ideas presented here, I like the cover art, I like the ghost sfx and for the most part I liked the first half of the film. Sadly everything that happens after that point took everything I enjoyed beat it down and nailed it with a steel chair shot to the head repeatedly.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda been better.

The Good:

First half is interesting

Practical sfx are decent

The Bad:

Awful characters

Second half falls apart badly
  • Platypuschow
  • Feb 11, 2019
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10/10

Pure modern horror story: The ghosts of Capitalism!

And by pure horror a mean Thai horror - the master and king and ruler of them all horrors! This movie and/or story is for all you horror and suspense fans. It's also for all you drama fans and family love fans. And, last but not least: No electric special effects, no animations, only some masks.

The story is pretty simple. A mid-young (over thirty) husband and father of two moves the family from Bangkok to another city in a nice suburban area called Laddaland. The area is, of course, guarded and fenced - a typical artificial "safe" place.

He is the only employed member of their family with somehow steady job that allowed him this move in a first place (mortgage,wife not employed anymore).

One day, brutally mutilated body of a young girl is found in one of the houses in the neighborhood, and soon after that, strange things begin to happen and the story slowly begin to unravel. But, the more we go in to the scary minutes and hours of the movie, the more is the story overflown with personal grief, money problems, job loses, anger, personal depression, lack of acknowledgment and LOVE. We start to see that it's all just one horror story, here and now, and they are the only ones that can say NO to it.

And the less they resist the more they are drawn in to the world of depression, sadness and hate.

All the ghost that are scaring are just the modern alternative to Zombies:"The ghosts of Capitalism!" As I said, this is a movie that uses RAW power to remind us about the current situation in the world is already exactly like in this movie, except without ghosts. If you don't call beggars and homeless Ghosts....

I highly, highly recommend it!

PS

It's more Drama then Horror ;)
  • symbolman
  • Jul 8, 2013
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7/10

YOUR VILLAGE HAS GHOSTS

  • nogodnomasters
  • Jul 23, 2018
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3/10

Don't get the great reviews

  • misscath-02668
  • Mar 21, 2019
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8/10

Good movie, worth to watch

This movie is not only about horror, but also about life. I like how this movie storyline progress to some kind of madness and conflict. Worth to watch
  • mnadimmulachela
  • Oct 3, 2020
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6/10

A little clumsy

The Thai Get Out. Kind of. A little clumsy in the delivery of the spookiness. What could have been frightening becomes a little hackneyed because of lack of timing. The ghost reaches a hand out to touch a person over the span of a whole minute.
  • killercharm
  • Feb 27, 2020
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2/10

Absurd horror

  • eleester
  • Oct 28, 2020
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7/10

Ok. Not bad.

It's good. Not bad. Not something that I would highly recommend either. It's just another horror movie of family move into a new home, ghost, haunted,.. Yup. That's all.

Good acting though.
  • Van-pumpkinberries
  • Dec 12, 2020
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1/10

BEWARE: ANIMAL CRUELTY (even if it may be fake)

I am a fan of good horror. I do believe that like many say, there were many good messages here but in an attempt to include a lot (and jam-pack then into a horror film), the film loses it's transparency and purpose.

It comes off at first as a horror film. However the horror story remains with many plot holes and the deeper messages also become lost in the midst of the horror story.

Horror viewers may find it absurd and unsatisfying, while the deeper, meaning-oriented audience may find the film rushed and a little unclear.

However there were some horror scenes that I enjoyed. Too bad the mystery remained throughout.

PS There's a gut-wrenching scene which contains extreme animal cruelty. I wish I could unsee that
  • AtosaR
  • Aug 26, 2020
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10/10

Scream come true...

  • poe426
  • Nov 4, 2012
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2/10

Beta character with absurd story

I hold my emotions to see the main character (Thee) of this film. Too stupid idiot character annoying in every scene. My Friend recommended this film because he said Laddaland is one of the best thai horror movies, but in my opinion this is the worst horror movie I have ever watched.
  • yorozuya-05518
  • May 31, 2022
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8/10

Worth a watch...

If it's a weekend and a rainy night, this would be a good film to watch.

Now keep in mind it uses subtitles so you do need to watch and read.

And the first 5 minutes of the film is filled with so much family cheesiness that you could eat mac n cheese for weeks. But allow the story to build and you will be in for a surprise.

Cinematography is better than anything found in current films from USA. Acting is much better as well.
  • rosecalifornia
  • Aug 11, 2020
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1/10

Animal lovers avoid it like the plague.

  • maylwang
  • Mar 27, 2021
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9/10

Thai Haunted village movie

  • johndixonacupuncture
  • Oct 9, 2018
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8/10

It was worth the wait

  • Fortressofdoors
  • Jul 25, 2019
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8/10

Effective family drama with a 'pinch' of ghosts!

While I was expecting to watch a cheesy, jump scare driven asian ghost story, (which it was whenever the ghost appeared) I was pleasantly surprised to see an intense family drama. I mean this movie could have worked very well without all the spookiness. A story about a father's desperate attempts to do the best for is family.

I loved the pace of this film. The family's slow descent in to chaos, insanity and paranoia was well captured. The acting is top notch here especially from the actors playing father and the daughter. The tension between the relationship is what elevates this film. I also loved the direction and cinematography. I don't get why the director felt this has to be a ghost story.

The final minutes of the film will hit you hard and it was not because of any of those ghosts.

Story/Screenplay - 9/10 .

Ghost/spookyness - 4/10 .

Acting - 10/10 .

Cinematography - 9/10 .

Overall - 8/10
  • BladeRunner2020
  • Dec 2, 2018
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