Oh No … We are the BEST of FRIENDS. (IF you BELIEVE).
I LOVE HER, YOU LOVE HER, WE CANNOT SHARE.
SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE!
There’s NOTHING like a MOONLIGHT SWIM …
Far away from the madding crowd.
I feel my LOIN stirring. I feel good. Shall WE …?
GOD HELP ME!
I am TRAPPED in my own
vicious delusional WORLD!
I have a SEXY BOD, I know.
To CHOOSE between TWO SEXY HUNKS can pose a DILEMMA …
I can hear her SPIRIT crying for help.
The DEEP BLUE is where I can FORGET ALL my WOES!
” THE SWIMMERS ” ( 2014) THAI Movie Review.
Hey, if you are the type who love to ogle at pretty boys and sunshine girls, then don’t miss out on this pretty movie.
It’s crafted for the bold, brazen and arty, packaged with a wisp of raw sexuality to affix your eyes onto the cinema screen for 2 hours.
“THE SWIMMERS” is stacked with all kinds of horrors.
It is also a taut psychological thriller with twisted revelations to keep you guessing from start to finish.
The titular swimmers are two best buddies competing in the varsity swim team. They are Perth (Juthawut Pattarakamphon) and Tan (Thonphop Lirattanakhachon) .
Perth fantasizes about sex with Tan’s girlfriend called Ice (Supatsara Thanachart).
Having successfully wooed Ice, both of them set out to enjoy one torrid night of sex.
No, they did not use the rubber (condom).
Ice eventually becomes pregnant and she commits suicide by plunging down from the highest floor diving board onto the empty varsity pool below.
If not suicide, then is it murder most foul?
Because it is touted as a horror film, the female apparition eventually comes a-haunting.
The morale here is:
Please refrain from unprotected sex without using a rubber.
Should there be a leakage of sperm, you might get more trouble coming your way than you ever imagine.
The leads are not the star of this film.
Nope, the real stars of this movie are the tiny sperm, the tweeny-bit swimmers who deposit themselves inside a teenage girl creating an unwanted baby and generating consternation for everyone.
Ice’s mode of death is macabre, her body is splattered precariously at the bottom of the school’s empty swimming pool.
Suicide or murder? You guess.
For all that is worth, Perth is now guilt-and-grief stricken, despite a couple of red herrings signifying that there’s more than meet the eye, and that are other culprits .
He is haunted by the girl’s spirit nevertheless.
His buddy Tan,who is also grieving and angry, is determined to uncover the culprit who’s gotten his girlfriend pregnant. Ironically, he asks for Perth’s help.
Directed by Sophon Sakdapisit the film rocks with spooky hauntings, gore and is a nail-biter of a terrifying whodunit.
So you think the bad will be punished for his misdeed?
THE SWIMMERS will provide this answer.
And the end result will shatter your senses and leave you breathless!
It is superbly scripted with fine acting from the movie’s young trio.
Don’t miss this great movie that ends with a diabolical twist.
Along comes another stab at the house haunting parable.
You tell me.
By now, this kind of theme is well-worn, cliched, diluted and plundered umpteen times before, by film producers from all corners of the globe who smell gold in providing the commercial chills.
Everyone relishes a good scare now and then, so what’s the heck.
The recent “INSIDIOUS” film is one clear example of a house haunting.
A family settles into a new home.
And the screams come aplenty as an undead spirit spews vehemence when her “nest” is rudely ruffled. Everyone in the household is hollering his lungs out, all but the father who remains skeptical.
Does this one sound familiar?
The angry spirit vows payback and what follows are the splatters of blood and gore you can witness from similar films – but this one comes in a Thai packaging.
In “LADDALAND”, the film director takes you to CHIANGMAI – the heart of THAILAND, land of dramatic contrasts to spin his tale.
Fans swear that Thai horror films provide the best chills in shocking the ballers out of anyone, even with the bleakest, nondescript plots.
Is this a stereo-type sweeping statement?
Let’s see if LADDALAND is the case, as with this almost 2-hour dramatization.
This THAI feature dissects the slow descent of a young family whose harmony is disintegrating layer by layer when the father Thee (SAHARAT S.) displays symptoms of a depressive disorder.
Everything Thee does go inexplicably wrong in a haunted township called LADDALAND.
Thee hailed from Bangkok but he relocates his sweet family of wife Parn (PIYATHIDA W.), daughter Nan and son Nat to Chiangmai for a better life of serenity.
One wonders how he can afford to live a comfortable life as well as purchasing a landed property on a 60,000 baht- salary. Did the scriptwriter make a calculative mistake, dear?
Parn and son may be thrilled by the new house and township but the rebellious daughter is peeved about resettling in a brand new environment.
Barely a few weeks of settling in the new abode, bizarre things start happening.
A young Burmese maid is found mutilated and murdered and stored in an old refrigerator in a dilapidated house abandoned by a foreigner.
No valid reasons are given for her murder, so it’s a red herring planted here for the sake of inventing a spooky presence.
Out of the blue, an ugly menacing cat meows and lurks creepily to bring forth the chills, and you actually witness a scene of feline torture, where the animal is wedged between the door and squeezed violently to death by the deranged father. Bloody hell.
Life becomes chaotic after this.
The rest of the members of the family are terrified by a constant series of demonic events and want out, but Thee turns a deaf ear about returning to Bangkok.
He has a good reason to stay on – as his life savings are depleted. He had already bought the house and paid the initial installments and is totally broke.
As luck would have it, he lost his job. Financial pressures assail him, and latent signs of uncontrollable rage are starting to show in his demeanor, telling us he’s heading for a meltdown.
From then on, the psychological mania takes over the reins.
LADDALAND is the second feature directed by SOPHON SAKDAPISIT who previously co-wrote the horror thrillers SHUTTER and ALONE.
He made his debut with the haunted-film flick COMING SOON and LADDALAND is his latest project.
More than just another “seeing nobody does not mean there is nobody” thriller, LADDALAND is a probing picture of family dysfunction and shattered lives.
Aiming as a bizarre horror, it is a hauntingly compelling feature with a jarring musical score to ham on the shock factor.
“When everything wrong FEELS right” is the premise of this film.
Having lost mental control, Thee’s repressed instincts “where his fear is his actual reality” resurface with a force and violence that no one could have predicted.
It is less a horror film story and more a fractured conscience parable.
LADDLAND lashes a harsh lesson on how much crap a man can really take when disastrous circumstances keep spiraling downwards, and when he is pushed to his emotional limits.
