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Thailand’s horror studio Night Edge Pictures lands at AFM with a slate of horror and thriller titles set for 2025.

Warun Siriprachai’s debut feature How To Run Away From Your Million-Baht Debt is based on a short-video phenomenon on social media. It focuses on a man who defends his innocence when he becomes the key suspect after his wife and child are murdered in their apartment. It is produced by Panida Ngamsompong (RedLife).

There’s Something Wrong With The TV is a horror sci-fi about two teenagers who attempt to release a group of children trapped inside an antique TV set.

Sophon Sakdaphisit has really outdone himself with his new directorial venture Home For Rent. If there is a name that guarantees a proper ‘horror’ experience in today’s films, it is Sophon. As the writer of such films as “Shutter” and “Coming Soon”, his new film Home For Rent is a testament to his ability to create a terrifying world where anything can happen to your loved ones. He doesn’t give scientific explanations in his films to dilute the experience; he just deep dives into the purely supernatural element.

It’s nice to have a director who unabashedly jumps into what could be called old-school horror, and because Sophon has the conviction to pull it off, Home For Rent works really well. The film features some very strong performances by the actors, but it is the casting that has to be credited because it is spot on. The story revolves around Ning,...

Renowned Thai horror director Sophon Sakdaphisit is back with another big-budget horror movie, titled Home For Rent, and it stars some big names in Thai cinema. Starring Nittha Jirayungyurn, Penpak Sirikul, and Sukollawat Kanarot, among others, the movie is about a woman named Ning, whose life changes after two women move into her house as tenants. When Ning’s neighbor begins to suspect that the new tenants might practice black magic and weird things start happening at her own home, Ning is compelled to get to the bottom of whatever horror has come into her life. Here’s what happens in the 2023 Thai horror film Home For Rent.

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Why Do The Tenants Arrive At Ning’s House?

A young woman named Ning walks into her house to find it trashed and vandalized. She’s been advised by her real estate agent, Tom, to rent out the home, and that way,...

A winner of both the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the Big Screen Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, ‘Pop Aye’ was a hit with critics and festival audiences alike, and now has been selected by Singapore as the country’s Official Submission to the 90th Academy Awards. Kino Lorber has now released Kirsten Tan’s Award-Winning Pop Aye on DVD with special features including behind-the-scenes footage and trailer.

Pop Aye was released theatrically by Kino Lorber earlier in 2017, with a two-week run at New York’s Film Forum and engagements in key national markets including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. International sales are by Cercamon, a sales company based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates headed by Sébastien Chesneau who is French.

This first feature of Kirsten Tan comes from Singapore but it takes place in Thailand.

This first feature of Kirsten Tan premiered in Sundance ‘17 World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Its provenance is Singapore but it takes place in Thailand. It continued onward to the Hivos Tiger Competition at Iffr (R’dam).

The thrill of interviewing here in Sundance is that you see a film; you have an impression and while it is still fresh you meet the filmmakers without having much time for any research or reflection. And then you get to see them again as “old friends” when you meet again in Rotterdam.

As Kirsten, her producer Weijie Lai and I sat down at the Sundance Co-op on Main Street here in Park City, I really had little idea of where the interview would take us, somewhat analogously to her film in which an architect, disenchanted with life in general, being put aside as “old” in his own highly successful architectural firm and in a stale relationship with his wife,...

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony. While we’ll have our personal favorites coming early this week, the jury and audience have responded with theirs, topped by Macon Blair‘s I don’t feel at home in this world anymore., which will arrive on Netflix in late February, and the documentary Dina. Check out the full list of winners below see our complete coverage here.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Larry Wilmore to:

Dina / U.S.A. (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini) — An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Peter Dinklage to:

I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Macon Blair) — When a depressed woman is burglarized, she...

When Thana (Thaneth Warakulnukroh) suddenly decides to walk with an elephant through the countryside to his childhood home, nobody seems to notice or much care. His wife, Bo (Penpak Sirikul), is frankly glad he’s out of the house, while the younger staff at the office mostly just want to know where his files are. Writer/director Kirsten Tan doesn’t fuss or overexplain these details, and quickly gets to what everyone wants to see: a man and his elephant on an unlikely journey.

Continue reading ‘Pop Aye’ Is An Engaging, Charming Road Trip With A Man And His Elephant [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.

"The city takes you in as quick as it spits you out." A trailer has debuted for one of our most anticipated films premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival starting next week. It's a film titled Pop Aye, from writer/director Kristen Tan, about a man in Thailand who finds his long lost elephant and takes him on a journey home across the country. The description is so unique and this sounds so cool, that I was sold on it already, but this trailer makes it look like a "must see" during the festival. The film's cast features Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Penpak Sirikul, and Bong the elephant as "Popeye". I also love the poster they made for this (seen below), and I can't wait to see the scene it's from. Looks so awesome! Don't miss this trailer. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Kirsten Tan's Pop Aye, originally debuted...

The Sundance Film Festival is the place where films with unexpected and often charming stories find fertile ground to possibly capture some big buzz. And our exclusive trailer for “Pop Aye” is certainly boasting a winning spirit for what could be a World Cinematic Dramatic Competition entry to look out for.

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Directed by Kirsten Tan, and starring Thaneth Warakulnukroh and Penpak Sirikul, the story tells the unique tale of a disenchanted architect who bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok and takes him on a redemptive journey across Thailand in search of the farm where they grew up together.

Continue reading Sundance Exclusive: A Man And His Elephant Journey Across Thailand In Trailer & Poster For ‘Pop Aye’ at The Playlist.

Director Tom Waller’s The Last Executioner is set to open in Thailand in June but the arrival of this new English language poster for the movie seems to more than hint they will be angling for some overseas sales. Hopefully meaning we’ll get to see it soon! Based on a true story and inspired by real events in the life of Chavoret Jaruboon, Thailand's last machine gun prison executioner it’s directed by Tom Waller, starring Vithaya Pansringarm, Penpak Sirikul and David Asavanond. Alas the website listed on the one poster isn’t yet live but you can still check out the English subbed teaser trailer below. The Last Executioner poster The Last Executioner teaser...

Well this looks intriguing. A first teaser trailer is out for Thai movie The Last Executioner. Based on a true story and inspired by real events in the life of Chavoret Jaruboon, Thailand's last machine gun prison executioner it’s directed by Tom Waller, starring Vithaya Pansringarm, Penpak Sirikul and David Asavanond.. Synopsis: Inspired by true events, The Last Executioner is the story of Chavoret Jaruboon, the last person in Thailand whose job it was to execute by gun - a wild rock and roller, who took a "respectable" job to support the family he loved devotedly, then constantly tried to reconcile the good and bad karma that came from his decision. It is a story of life at its most beautiful and death at its most surreal. Powerful, stuff thought provoking stuff, but then that’s what makes good movies! The Last Executioner is to be released in Thailand...