Alone (aka Faet)

Posted by Horror Grinder on August 30, 2007

Review by the Film Fiend

Siamese twins, simply put, freak me out. It doesn’t matter if they’re connected at the hip or the head or the hiney; my skin starts to crawl almost immediately after laying my lazy eyes upon them. I know this is a very un-PC statement to make in this day and age, but it’s also the truth. Heaven forbid I speak my mind freely without some shady human rights organization desperately chasing me through narrow Hong Kong alleyways in order to label me as a cruel and unusual movie-watching bastard who has trouble taking the feelings of others into consideration. If not for my formidable wushu skills, no telling what, exactly, they would have done to me.

My complete and utter aversion to conjoined twins obviously played a huge role in my thorough enjoyment of Thai directors Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom’s terrifying 2007 horror flick Alone (aka Faet), their stunning follow-up to 2004’s supernatural masterpiece Shutter. It’s one of the few motion pictures in recent memory that managed to snake its way under my overly desensitized skin, causing more than a few girlish shrieks to slip from my lips over the course of its easy, breezy 90 shock-stuffed minutes. Are you of the belief that genuine terror doesn’t exist anywhere within the genre? Think again, my friend.

Thailand, apparently, knows how to do it right. (more…)

Stabbed first by Fatally Yours