Are You Dares to Watch This DVD “ALONE”?

“Alone” is already became an Asian horror blockbuster hits this year. This Thailand release movie is the recent project of two guys behind the success of another horror blockbuster “Shutter”, Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom. So, it’s not too astonishing if “Alone” is being very much anticipated, long before its slate to releases on the market, due on the high hopes of the movie viewers to another high quality Asian horror like what Pisanthanakun and Wongpoom have offers in their first hits “Shutter”. After satisfied lot of viewers and delivered a solid Box Office earning during its releases in Thailand and other Asian countries on March, now is time for “Alone” to scare you up on your home cinema collection, the Korean DVD version with English subtitles will releases September 22nd.

Helming previously in “Shutter”, Pisanthanakun and Wongpoom know a good story when they see it and they are masters at manipulating tension, even if you know what’s coming but still make you jump when they deliver it. After made a story around haunted photograph, in this second film they has some thing to do with myths about Siamese twins that will scarified you with a thought of what’s most horrifying than a Siamese ghost twin which always coming to get you, with no place to run or hide that the ghost is attached on you.

The conjoined Siamese twins are Pim and Ploy that was being separated by Thailand doctors, after 20 hour of operation Pim has survived but Ploy died. Pim buries her past and starts a new life with her husband Wee in Korea, all seem well before Pim had informed that her mother has fallen very ill due to a yet un-diagnosable disease, which takes Pim and her husband back to Thailand. From the moment she arrives in her hometown, Pim finds herself constantly haunted by these lingering feelings of being attached to another person by organ that bonds two lives in such a way that she could never be free. It’s her dead sister that begins to angrily intrude upon her life to not allow her to forget what does not want to be forgotten…. (Synopsis sources in Movie-Café)

With plenty of expertly-crafted scary sequences and a slow-burning storyline that gradually draws the audience into its web of intrigue before knocking them sideways with a wholly unexpected plot twist towards the end of the movie, Alone has the potential to become a second Thailand movie that will remaking by Hollywood after the predecessor “Shutter”, which now being remade by 20th Century Fox and will smash U.S and global audiences in 2008.
The intriguing story is nicely backed up by the wholly impressive lead performance from Marsha Wathanapanitch, one of Thailand favorite actress that the directors were luckily have on board at the time she decided to make her cinema comeback after fifteen years concentrated on her pop music career. At 36, Marsha is considerably twice the age of actresses one usually sees in Thai horror movies, but her maturity suggests a greater depth to the pictures. On one creepy sequence, Marsha as Pim takes a walk on the beach. Where there should be one set of footprints in the sand, Pim turns around and finds two, and is horrified. The look on her face is priceless. Also find this another scary sequence when the ghost of Ploy hanging on the ceiling fan scarifying Pim that laid on the bed. And it keeps getting scarier and scarier, as the thrills, surprises and action keep building up.
Even on some plot I found less unreasonable, including the twist ending and the storyline isn’t that original. But, “Alone” is still one of the best Asian horror movies that come highly recommended for its very decent horror. By the way –who’s that standing beside you?

Alone (DVD) (Korea Version) DVD Region Code 3
Product Details:
* Actors: Masha Wattanapanich, Vittaya Wasukraipaisan, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Ratchanoo Bunchootwong
* Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom
* Format: Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
* Language: Thai (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround), Thai (Dolby Digital 2.0 - Stereo)
* Subtitles: English, Thai, Korean
* Region: Region Code 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan)
* Number of discs: 1
* Studio: GTH Pictures
* Publisher: S.M. Pictures
* DVD Release Date: September 22, 2007 (order your copy now!)
* Run Time: 1 hr 35 mins

EXTRA FEATURES
* Interview
* Audio Commentary
* Video Commentary
* Behind The Scenes
* Deleted Scenes
* Storyboard Comparison
* Music Video
* Music Score
* TV Spots
* Stills Gallery
* Poster
* Trailers

Source: YesAsia
Official Website: www.faddthemovie.com

P.S: Like “Shutter” or new release Thailand horror “The Victim”, maybe “Alone” will also soon be release by Tartan Asian Extreme in Region 1 DVD.