Land of Smiles

A little glimpse into backpacking through Thailand - some common themes you encounter there ie being in the rain, drinking buckets, and talking about someone in the club who the night before kissed a ladyboy by accident. Drinking shroom shakes and haggling with the street market ladies.

If you've been there you will find this movie entertaining because of the subject matter. The horror theme tied it all together - I guess it is kind of Saw like - but nothing really happened and it was all unexplained. Kind of just some nice holiday visuals sprinkled with some backpackers drinking chang laced together with a psychopath being a psychopath for no reason.

This film infuriated me from the word go, really. I know a lot about low budget filmmaking and I understand that this film is not necessarily the worst low-budget film ever made... but it comes very close. Here are my two main gripes:

1. The acting - absolutely atrocious! From fumbling accents to people who can't cry/look scared properly, the acting in this stinker is all over the place!

2. The clown character in this is NOT menacing at all, with cheap costume, very bad acting (see above) and appalling voice characteristics, this character (who could have worked well) simply flopped.

Now, I am a veteran horror and low budget film watcher, 35+ years experience in watching them, and I have seen many films with HALF the budget of this which have been much better than this (not to mention half the trash that Hollywood spews forth every year).

There's no excuse for this - bad filmmaking that the director should be bloody ashamed of...

Look it's not the worst low budget film I've seen and I've seen lots pretty much I think they were trying to kind of copy the movie/s Hostel but this is no were close to this - the blond actress is at least nice looking but the acting is bad the story line sucks the clown is not scary and the film work sucks also when last did you see a flip up cell phone oh wait the good parts are the beach scenes and a pair of boobs gets a 3/10

The acting from the very first moment to the scene with the guy banging the blonde in the bed at the start was utterly atrocious I began to think maybe it was a comedy horror - - I can only assume they were working for free to give their acting portfolios a boost or was this a student film?

It actually gives the impression that 4 or 5 friends went on holiday to Thailand and on the first day decided to make a horror movie as they visited various locations for a sunbathe and smoke a few spliffs - unfortunately the spliffs must have gone to their heads as it was like watching paint dry and it did turn out to be a horror of a movie!

Nothing much happens, the whole thing was pointless. Even the ideas were ripped off from other movies like saw.

The acting destroyed the movie right from the off. Its yet another ripoff but its not worth your time - really just avoid this and watch the much better film "GHOST HOUSE".

It's a waste of time. I watch low-budget films but this story was just crap, somehow. Acting was no different. Like they all just went for a holiday and decided to make a film for fun.

All about Thailand but I think they were also in the Philippines. Couldn't help notice the background voices..