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Get ready for a deluge of Cannes news, kids. It was bound to start sooner or later, right? First up is a bevy of new horror titles coming at us from Thailand’s Five Star Production. Read on for all the details you need.

Screen Daily is reporting that Thailand’s Five Star Production has picked up worldwide rights to horror thriller Hong Hoon (pictured right and below).

The film is a contemporary take on a Thai folk tale, directed by Kulp Kaljareuk and starring Ananda Everingham and Thai actress and model Rattanarat “Ploy” Aurthaveekul. The story revolves around a woman who believes she lost her father in an accident, but is approached by a stranger who explains that he died because he had a wax figure made of himself. The Thai belief that such figures should never be made until after death has been explored in several radio dramas,...

Exclusive: Thailand’s Five Star Production has picked up worldwide rights to horror thriller Hong Hoon.

The film is a contemporary take on a Thai folk tale, directed by Kulp Kaljareuk and starring Ananda Everingham and Thai actress and model Rattanarat “Ploy” Aurthaveekul.

The story revolves around a woman who believes she lost her father in an accident, but is approached by a stranger who explains that he died because he had a wax figure made of himself.

The Thai belief that such figures should never be made until after death has been explored in several radio dramas, TV series and films.

A member of the third generation of the family that runs the Kantana studios group, Kaljareuk also heads production subsidiary Kantana Motion Pictures. He previously produced short film Loop (2009), starring Everingham, and is making his feature directing debut with Hong Hoon.

According to Five Star, the film is a darker and more stylised spin on...

Thailand shows no sign of giving up its love affair with compilation horror movies and considering the success the ‘3 Am’ franchise, and several other series, we don’t see them running out of steam just yet. The latest....the efficiently (if unoriginally) named 3Am (3D) Part 2 is due for release in Jan 2014, and we’ve trailers and plotlines galore. As with part 1, it has three sections, and the stories go something like this.... The Third Night. Director: Putipong Saisrikaew. “Have you heard? Rang is dead.” Rang is dead, but it may not be that simple. The leader of a motorcycle gang and owner of a tattoo shop, Rang was killed in a road accident – but a lot of people don’t believe that a skilled motorcyclist like him would die that way. At Rang’s funeral, his girlfriend, Koy, walks in with her newly acquired boy, Bozo, who’s Rang’s henchman.

Thailand shows no sign of giving up its love affair with compilation horror movies and considering the success the ‘3 Am’ franchise, and several other series, we don’t see them running out of steam just yet. The latest....the efficiently (if unoriginally) named 3Am (3D) Part 2 is due for release in Jan 2014, and we’ve trailers and plotlines galore. As with part 1, it has three sections, and the stories go something like this....The Third Night. Director: Putipong Saisrikaew. “Have you heard? Rang is dead.” Rang is dead, but it may not be that simple. The leader of a motorcycle gang and owner of a tattoo shop, Rang was killed in a road accident – but a lot of people don’t believe that a skilled motorcyclist like him would die that way. At Rang’s funeral, his girlfriend, Koy, walks in with her newly acquired boy, Bozo, who’s Rang’s henchman.

A new horror anthology from Thailand is speeding out at us like a bullet and the one thing that all of the segments in this flick have in common is the fact that really, really bad things can happen at 3 A.M.

Check out the sales art and international trailer below.

The film comprises three separate short stories from established Thai directors: Patchanon Thammajira's "The Wig" follows two sisters haunted by evil dolls in a wig shop. Kirati Nakintanon's segment tells the tale of a man who gets an eerie job looking after the corpses of a bridge and groom. And Isara Nadee's "The Blind Man" is about a man with severe myopia who starts to have strange visions.

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While the horror anthology is making a resurgence in the USA of late the format has been running strong in Thailand for quite some time now. The anthology format is perfect for horror, allowing both new and old talent to get in, set up a scare, deliver and get out again quickly. And as long as you keep finding a new wrinkle to things it always stays fresh.And that wrinkle is obvious in upcoming Thai project 3Am. A collection of three ghost stories, all of which occur at 3am, this is the first project of its kind to be presented in 3D.Chipping in to the project are Colic director Patchanon Thumajira with the tale of a haunted wig shop, First Kiss director Kirati Nakintanon holding...

Following the Asian box office success of their first ever 3D frightener ‘Dark Flight 407,’ is was pretty much a cert that Thai film house Five Star Movies wasn’t go to leave it there hence....Thailand's second 3D horror - a compilation piece titled ‘3Am’ - is already on the cards and the release tipped to be around Christmas time. No sign of a trailer just yet, so we’ll have to make do with the teaser poster, and summary of the plots...for now. The film comprises three separate short stories from established Thai directors: Patchanon Thammajira's ‘The Wig’ follows two sisters haunted by evil dolls in a wig shop....Kirati Nakintanon's segment tells the tale of a man who gets an eerie job looking after the corpses of a bridge and groom. And...Isara Nadee's ‘The Blind Man’ is about a man with severe myopia...