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Thai horror films have gained international acclaim for their unique blend of supernatural terror, psychological tension, and rich cultural folklore. From eerie ghost stories to chilling, unpredictable plots, this THAI HORROR COLLECTION offers a distinct experience to captivate every discerning horror fan. With atmospheric settings, spine-tingling soundtracks, and unsettling suspense, these eight films have helped solidify Thailand as a powerhouse in horror cinema. Whether exploring ancient spirits or modern-day nightmares, Umbrella’s THAI HORROR BOXSET provides a thrilling, immersive journey into the dark corners of the human psyche and beyond.
DORM “I know a secret and if you promise not to tell anyone, I will tell you.. “When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he’s taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
ALONE We promised to stay together forever. When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy’s vengeful ghost.
PHOBIA (aka 4BIA) Face Your Fears. Four horror tales revolve around an accident victim, a bullied youth, ghost stories and a deceased princess.
PHOBIA 2 Don’t be surprised if you are addicted to fear. An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car salesman, and careless backpacking tourists.
COMING SOON What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost lurking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? None of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being struck by a feeling of d j vu that you are reenacting the very same scenes in the horror movie you just saw!
LADDALAND Buying a home is a dream that everyone strives for. Thee is one of millions in Bangkok that cannot afford a home. One day, a huge job opportunity knocks on his door and Thee accepts a new position and moves his family to Laddaland, a new housing project with large, beautiful homes. But death is something we all must face soon or later, and in Laddaland, it’s your dead neighbors that you must deal with.
COUNTDOWN “4… 3. 2. 1” No matter where you are, everyone in the world is looking forward to the countdown to New Year’s Day, which includes 3 Thai teens in New York City. “4… 3.. 2. 1” They are counting down without knowing for sure that their new day is going to be waiting for them..
THE PROMISE “Promise me you won’t leave me. ” Unable to accept the harsh truth that their families were going bankrupt in the 1997 Tom Yum Goong Crisis, two best friends, Boum and Ib decided to end their lives together at their families’ unfinished tower, where they promised to be together forever. In the end, Ib died all alone. Twenty years later, Boum, a successful real estate entrepreneur, visits the tower with her daughter, triggering a series of events that frighteningly remind Boum of Ib. What measures will Boum take to release herself from the promise that binds her?
Director: Songyos Sugmakanan, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom, Paween Purijitpanya, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Visute Poolvoralaks, Sophon Sakdaphisit, Baz Poonpiriya
DISC 1: Dorm & Alone NEW! Alone Critical Audio Commentary by Pierce Conran and James Marsh NEW! Early Career and Inspiration: An Interview with Director Parkpoom Wongpoom NEW! Interview with Director, Writer and Producer Yongyoot Thongkongtoon NEW! Till Death Do Us Part: The Lonely Ghosts of Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom – A Video Essay by Hayley Scanlon NEW! Together and Alone: The Sometime T-horror partnership of Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom – A Video Essay by Anton Bitel Stills Gallery Dorm Trailer DISC 2: Phobia & Phobia 2 NEW! Phobia Critical Audio Commentary by Pierce Conran and James Marsh NEW! Phobia 2 Critical Audio Commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas NEW! Early Career and Inspiration: An Interview with Director Banjong Pisanthanakun NEW! Interview with Director Paween Purijitpanya NEW! Phobia: Finding Fear in Small Doses – A Video Essay by Matt Donato NEW! Double Trouble: Films of Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun including Shutter, Alone, Phobia and Phobia 2 – Video Essay by David Michael Brown Stills Gallery Phobia Trailer Phobia 2 Trailer DISC 3: COMING SOON & LADDALAND NEW! Coming Soon Critical Audio Commentary by Pierce Conran and James Marsh Interview with Director, Writer and Producer Yongyoot Thongkongtoon NEW! Coming Soon: When Horror Escape the Screen – A Video Essay by Matt Donato NEW! Thai Ghost Stories: Alone, Dorm, Laddaland, Coming Soon and The Promise – A Video Essay by David Michael Brown NEW! Laddaland: There’s Something Horrific Lurking in the Family Home – A Video Essay by Dr Duncan Caillard Stills Gallery DISC 4: COUNTDOWN & THE PROMISE NEW! Countdown Critical Audio Commentary by Pierce Conran and James Marsh NEW! The Promise Critical Audio Commentary by Grant Watson NEW! Interview with Director Sophon Sakdaphisit NEW! Ghosts of Aspiration: The Haunted Vistas of Sophon Sakdaphisit – A Video Essay by Halyely Scanlon NEW! Locating three T-horrors from Sophon Sakdaphisit: A Video Essay by Anton Bitel NEW! Countdown: New Year, Same Sins – A Video Essay by Matt Donato Stills Gallery Countdown Trailer
STARRING: Various
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With their boat wrecked, their bearings lost, and their need for shelter extreme as they make their way through a terrible storm, a young man and woman think they’ve found shelter inside an abandoned farmhouse. That illusion is shattered when a family of lunatic reprobates shows up and subjects them to degrading tortures. Intense shocker from the director of “Urban Legend” stars Nadia Farès, Robert Taylor. 84 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; deleted scene; interviews; bonus short “Silent Number” (1993); theatrical trailers. Region Free
STARRING: Nadia Farès, Robert Taylor, David Lyons
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After accidentally running down a pedestrian, a photographer from Bangkok and his girlfriend flee the scene and return home. Before you can say “Fotomat,” the shutterbug begins discovering ghostly figures in his images and his lady becomes plagued by nightmares. But when their loved ones begin dying mysteriously, the pair must unravel the mystery of what is happening to them before it costs them their lives. Terrifying Thai horror film stars Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana. 95 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Thai; Subtitles: English, Spanish. In Thai with English subtitles. Region Free
STARRING: Chachchaya Chalernpol, Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana, Unnop Chanpaibool
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After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl’s ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
STARRING: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Jennifer Morrison
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Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity who inhabit a perpetually moving train, with 1001 cars, that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation. Based on the 2013 Bong Joon-ho film and the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, this thrilling series stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, and Alison Wright
STARRING: Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright
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Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
STARRING: Hugh Grant, Scott Beck, Ryan Woods, Topher Grace, Sophie Thatcher
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When birthmarked Wei (Joyena Sun) left China to live with family and attend college in New Zealand, she was hoping to prove out her late dermatologist father’s radical theories regarding skin grafts. Facing a fitful assimilation thanks to her too-perfect cousin (Jess Hong) and her mean-girl clique, Wei finds practical application for her dad’s work-by stealing her tormentors’ faces, then their everyday lives. Sasha Rainbow’s unnerving opus co-stars Jared Turner, Eden Hart, Sepi To’a. 96 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free
STARRING: Jess Hong, Eden Hart, Jared Turner
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After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
STARRING: Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
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A man and his wife encounter a grotesque looking hand sticking out from the toilet in their bathroom. The protruding hand is very still, like a severed limb hanging low. Although they call security, and soon the cops, no one can identify, let alone predict where or what this thing is. Suddenly, all find themselves struggling for their lives as they try to fight against it.
STARRING: Lee Jae-won, Park Sang-wook, Woong Heo
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Four-disc set includes: Dracula (1931) After starring in the title role on Broadway four years earlier, Bela Lugosi became forever identified with the quintessential vampire, Count Dracula, of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. Director Tod Browning’s Gothic film adaptation follows the bloodsucking Dracula from his Transylvanian castle to England as he ensnares the unwary in his diabolical schemes. With Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan. 75 min. BW/Rtg: NR Dracula’s Daughter (1936) The moody and rarely-seen sequel to the 1931 Bela Lugosi classic (it starts out right where that film left off) stars Gloria Holden in the title role. Desiring to be cured of her vampirism, she goes to a doctor for help but winds up wanting him to become her undead consort. With Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, and Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Van Helsing. 70 min. BW/Rtg: NR Son Of Dracula (1943) Lon Chaney, Jr. Plays the infamous bloodsucker, travelling through Louisiana as Count Alucard (spell it backwards) and searching for a bride. Atmospheric and often overlooked, this Universal chiller co-stars Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers. 78 min. BW/Rtg: NR House Of Dracula (1945) A monster-studded effort from Universal Studios in which an understanding doctor tries to cure the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.) of his lycanthropy and Dracula (John Carradine) of his vampirism. Madness, and Drac-tainted blood, soon get the best of the good doc, leading him to search for and revive Frankenstein’s Monster (Glenn Strange). With Onslow Stevens. 67 min. BW/Rtg: NR Standard; Soundtrack: English DTS HD stereo Master Audio; featurettes; 1931 Spanish-version of “Dracula”; audio commentary on selected films; documentaries; photo gallery; theatrical trailers; art cards; more.
STARRING: Various
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A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist’s therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband’s investigation.
STARRING: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
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A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby’s mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby.
STARRING: Shari Sebbens, Meyne Wyatt, Tessa Rose
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Two-disc set includes: Terrifier (2016) Art the Clown, the baleful bufon from “All Hallow’s Eve,” is up to his old tricks-and this Halloween, he’s treating a pair of wee-hours partygoers to unending terror! As he stalks them into a ramshackle apartment building, you can bet it won’t end well for them, or any of the hapless few who try to interfere! Unnerving splatterthon from filmmaker Damien Leone stars Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, Catherine Corcoran, and David Howard Thornton as Art. 85 min. C/Rtg: NR Terrifier 2 (2022) As Halloween approached, teen Sienna (Lauren LaVera) was appalled that her kid brother Jonathan (Elliott Fullam) wanted to go as Art the Clown, the murderous merrymaker who terrorized their community the year before. She’d feel a whole lot worse as she realized that a resurrected Art (David Howard Thornton) was targeting them both for his sadistic brand of comedy. Fear-filled follow-up from Damien Leone co-stars Chris Jericho, Felissa Rose, Samantha Scaffidi. 138 min. C/Rtg: NR Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free
STARRING: Various
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