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Alone
Thai theatrical poster.
Directed byBanjong Pisanthanakun
Parkpoom Wongpoom
Screenplay byBanjong Pisanthanakun
Sophon Sakdaphisit
Parkpoom Wongpoom
Aummaraporn Phandintong
Produced byYongyoot Thongkongtoon
Yodphet Sudsawad
Mingmongkol Sonakul
StarringMarsha Vadhanapanich
CinematographyNiramon Ross
Distributed byGTH
24 Frames[1]
Release date
  • 29 March 2007 (2007-03-29) (Thailand)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryThailand
LanguagesThai
Korean
Box office$9.3 million[2]

Alone (Template:Lang-th, or Fad, literally "twin") is a 2007 Thai horror film written and directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom. Alone stars Thai-German pop singer Marsha Vadhanapanich in her first film role in 15 years.[3]

Plot

Pim and Ploy are twin sisters both conjoined at the stomach. Pim is very sweet, caring and protective of Ploy, though Ploy's nature is harsh and cold. The girls promised each other to stay together until they die.

While they are staying in a hospital, Pim and Ploy meet a boy named Wee. The girls display mutual affection for him, but Wee only returns Pim's, much to Ploy jealousy. After his recovery from an illness, Wee decides that he wants to see Pim one last time and visits the twins' room. As much as Pim wants to see Wee, Ploy refuses to get out of bed and succumbs to a fit of jealous rage. Wee gets upset and leaves. Angry and in tears, Pim demands that she and Ploy be separated. To do so, the twins undergo a surgery, which Ploy does not survive. Pim burdens herself with guilt thinking that if she had not wanted an operation, Ploy would still be alive.

Years later, Pim is married to Wee and the couple live in South Korea. She receives a phone call from Thailand that her mother has had a stroke. When Pim and Wee return to Thailand, Ploy's ghost comes back to haunt her. At first, Wee becomes very worried and starts seeking psychiatric help for Pim. But even after the psychiatrist came to visit Pim, she still experiences a series of hauntings by Ploy. Pim hears her breathing on her side while she sleeps, as though she and Ploy were still inseparable. She sees Ploy in the mirror instead of herself. On the elevator, she sees Ploy resting her head on her shoulder. When she tries to relax in a bathtub, she is suddenly plunged into the water by Ploy's ghost. When the lights go out, she sees a horrifying figure of Ploy. The hauntings keep stalking Pim and she feels even more guilty. Later, however, the spirit of Ploy also haunts Wee.

One night, Wee goes to see Pim's mother who reveals that Pim is actually Ploy. In a flashback, Ploy strangles Pim out of jealousy after Pim demanded they be separated. But when Pim dies, Ploy suddenly snaps out of her rage and feels shocked of what she did. She screams for help to her mother, who is devastated over Pim's death and never speaks to Ploy again. To save Ploy's life, doctors had to separate Pim's corpse from Ploy's body. Ploy assumed Pim's identity in order to be with Wee. It meant that all these years, Ploy was lying to Wee and it was actually Pim's ghost that was haunting her and Wee. Ploy's mother was fully aware of her actions as well, but kept silent. Later, it is shown that Ploy killed her mother by disconnecting her oxygen pipe so she could not tell Wee the truth. Ploy had no idea that her mother had told Wee the truth beforehand.

Wee confronts Ploy, and in a moment of guilt, she tells Wee the truth. Wee is disgusted and shocked at Ploy's actions and decides to leave her, but Ploy knocks him unconscious and takes Wee hostage. However, Wee escapes, and the ensuing fight with Ploy causes the house to catch fire. Wee throws a shelf on Ploy and escapes. Trapped underneath, Pim's ghost confronts and holds Ploy down, and as the burning debris rains down around them, Pim smiles and Ploy dies.

Wee visits the twins' grave, and takes out Pim's necklace that he had given her as a gift when they were in the hospital. He places it on their tombstone.

Cast

  • Marsha Vadhanapanich as Pim and Ploy
  • Vittaya Wasukraipaisan as Wee
  • Ruchanu Boonchooduang as Pim's and Ploy's mother
  • Hatairat Egereff as Pim, age 15
  • Rutairat Egereff as Ploy, age 15
  • Chutikan Vimuktananda as Pim, age 7
  • Chayakan Vimuktananda as Ploy, age 7
  • Namo Tongkumnerd as Wee, age 15
  • Joel Piercey as Ryang

Box office

Like Pisanthanakun and Wongpoom's previous film Shutter, Alone opened at #1 at the Thai Box Office grossing $960,000 before falling to #2 grossing $411,043. In total the film grossed $2,040,003 in Thailand becoming the 21st highest grossing film of the year. The film fared even better internationally grossing $9,365,071 worldwide out grossing the directors which made all other movies fall behind previous film Shutter.[2]

Festivals and awards

Since its general release in Thailand cinemas, Alone has made the rounds at film festivals, playing at the 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival. At Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, the film won awards for best director and best actress.[4][5] It swept the awards at the 2007 Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.[5] The film also won the top Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 2007 Toronto After Dark festival.[6]

Soundtrack

The closing credits feature a song by Marsha Wattanapanich, "Suan Neung Khong Chan (A Part of Me)".

DVD release

Alone has been released on Region 3 DVD in Hong Kong by Asia Video, with the original soundtrack and English and Traditional Chinese subtitles.

Remakes

Alone has been remade 5 times, 4 in Indian languages:

Also with an International remake:

  • The 2012 Filipino film Guni-Guni have been described as having similarities in plot to Alone where Lovi Poe played the role of the twins.

See also

References

  1. ^ Thai horror hit Alone finds a US home Archived 2007-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, Twitchfilm.net, retrieved 2007-06-20.
  2. ^ a b "Alone". Boxofficemojo. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  3. ^ Is Marsha sure she wants to get back into movies? Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, The Nation, retrieved 2007-03-22.
  4. ^ Alone Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine at Fantastic Fest, retrieved 2007-09-28
  5. ^ a b Alone sweeps LA Screamfest awards Archived 2008-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, Twitchfilm.net; retrieved 2007-10-24
  6. ^ 2007 festival award winners Archived 2007-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto After Dark, retrieved 2007-11-03
  7. ^ "Bipasha's not first to play conjoined twins; Suriya and Priya Mani beat her to it - Times of India".
  8. ^ കുര്യാക്കോസ്, റെഞ്ചി (29 November 2016). "എന്നും പ്രിയം, എപ്പോഴും ഒപ്പം". Malayala Manorama (in Malayalam). Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Bipasha Basu at the mahurat of upcoming horror film tentatively titled Alone - Times of India".
  10. ^ Borah, Prabalika M. (18 December 2014). "She loves it all Alone". The Hindu.
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