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''Alone'' ( th, แฝด, or ''Fad'', literally "twin") is a 2007 Thai
horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...
written and directed by
Banjong Pisanthanakun Bangjong Pisanthanakun ( th, บรรจง ปิสัญธนะกูล) is a Thai filmmaker and screenwriter. He saw early success with his first two films, ''Shutter (2004 film), Shutter'' (2004) and ''Alone (2007 film), Alone'' (2007), ...
and
Parkpoom Wongpoom Parkpoom Wongpoom ( th, ภาคภูมิ วงศ์ภูมิ) (born 1978) is a Thai filmmaker and screenwriter. With Banjong Pisanthanakun, he co-directed and co-wrote the hit 2004 Thai horror film, '' Shutter'', and the 2007 horror film ...
. ''Alone'' stars Thai-German pop singer Marsha Vadhanapanich in her first film role in 15 years.Is Marsha sure she wants to get back into movies?
, The Nation, retrieved 2007-03-22.


Plot

Pim and Ploy are twin sisters both
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at the stomach. Pim is very sweet, caring and protective, especially of Ploy, though Ploy's nature is generally harsh and cold. The girls have a very close bond, and 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's jealousy. After his recovery from an illness, Wee decides that he wants to see Pim one last time before leaving the hospital 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
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. She receives a phone call from Thailand that her mother has had a
stroke A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functionin ...
. When Pim and Wee return to Thailand, a series of odd events begin to happen, and Pim believes that the ghost of Ploy is behind them all. When she tells Wee her theory, he becomes very worried and starts seeking psychiatric help for Pim. But even after the psychiatrist came to visit Pim, she still experiences the hauntings, and what Wee believes to be hallucinations. The hauntings escalate from moving objects and voices to Pim actually coming in contact with Ploy; Pim hears her breathing on her side while she sleeps, she sees Ploy in the mirror instead of herself, while on an elevator she sees Ploy resting her head on her shoulder, and is nearly drowned by Ploy while taking a bath. Pim feels incredibly guilty and becomes a recluse, with Wee not being very sure about what's wrong with her. However, Ploy's ghost then begins haunting Wee as well. One night, Wee goes to see Pim's mother who reveals that Pim is actually Ploy. In a flashback, Ploy
strangle Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging ...
s 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''.


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 The 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival was held from July 19 to July 29, 2007, at SF Group's SF World Cinema at CentralWorld. The fifth consecutive year for the festival, organizers planned a program of about 100 films, with an emphasis on A ...
. At Fantastic Fest in
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, the film won awards for best director and best actress.Alone sweeps LA Screamfest awards
, Twitchfilm.net; retrieved 2007-10-24
It swept the awards at the 2007
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in Los Angeles, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing. The film also won the top Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 2007
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festival.


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
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by Asia Video, with the original soundtrack and English and Traditional Chinese subtitles.


Remakes

''Alone'' has been remade 5 times, 4 in Indian languages: * The 2007 Indian
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''
Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri ''Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri'' (English: Night of Nadiya's Murder) is a 2007 Malayalam thriller film by K. Madhu starring Suresh Gopi and Kavya Madhavan in lead roles. The film's plot is inspired by the 2007 Thai movie '' Alone'' which itself is l ...
'' was also inspired from this film where
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played the twins. * ''
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'' (2012), Indian film made in
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and
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languages.
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played the conjoined twins. *''
Geethaanjali ''Geethaanjali'' is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language horror film directed by Priyadarshan and written by Abhilash Nair, with dialogue by Dennis Joseph. Though promoted as spin-off of the 1993 Malayalam film ''Manichitrathazhu'', it was an o ...
'' (2013), Indian film made in
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language was made after buying the remake right. Keerthy Suresh played the twins. * '' Alone'' (2015), Indian film made in
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language. Bipasha Basu played the twins. Also with an International remake: * The 2012
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film ''
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'' have been described as having similarities in plot to ''Alone'' where Lovi Poe played the role of the twins.


See also

*
List of ghost films Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama. Depictions of ghosts are as diverse as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Beetlejuice, Hamlet's father, Jacob Marley, Freddy Kru ...


References


External links


Official site

Official site
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