Attack 13

Attack 13 is quite a good Thai horror film. I've seen a few Thai horror movies before, and I have to say, they really know how to deliver genuine scares.

As an Asian viewer, I can relate to some of the supernatural elements in the story. They reflect familiar cultural beliefs and ghost tales. While the plot itself isn't particularly unique, it's definitely entertaining and keeps you engaged throughout. The twist at the end was unexpected, even if it leaned on a familiar trope.

Overall, Attack 13 is a solid watch for horror fans, especially those who enjoy Thai supernatural stories.

I never watched a Thai horror movie as an American and I was pleasantly surprised at how these high school girls got down! Now the beginning was slow and I wanted to stop watching, but I wanted to see it through at least until the horror started. By the end I was entertained and happy to watch something very different than the normal horror film.

I loved it it was so intriguing and what a horror should be like, loved sticking up for bullies and what happened.

The film's bold stance against bullying is something I deeply appreciated, and the plot had me hooked from start to finish. The way the story tackles tough themes is commendable, and I loved seeing the characters stand up for what they believe in as well as other aspects with competition etc.

While I was thoroughly entertained and invested in the story, I have to admit that the ending felt a bit rushed and left me wanting more resolution. That being said, I'm holding out hope that there might be a second installment or a director's cut that expands on the film.

Overall, Attack 13 is a must-watch for anyone looking for a film that likes gore, a actual horror, the fact it is english spoken to, and a testing plot.

Bussaba is the volleyball team captain and also the school bully. She torments everyone, especially her teammates. Jin joins the school mid term where she used to be the volleyball team captain in her previous school. Her popularity hurts Bussaba's ego and it is further aggrevated when Jin stands upto her. An extreme action taken by Bussaba leads to an equally extreme reaction from Jin, leading to Bussaba's downfall. Tragedy strikes when Bussaba is found dead and her spirit is brought back. Who brought her back and will the vengeful spirit have the last laugh by going after everyone she hates, forms rest of the story.

Taweewat Wantha has come up with a solid horror film with regular dose of jump scares and gore. It is difficult to accept a character like Bussaba who is an outright bully and some of her actions are way too extreme. So to bring her spirit back felt quite interesting, as the narrative clearly bifurcates the bully from her victims. However, the director has succeeded in keeping the suspense intact till the final act. Couple of scares were indeed impressive and made Attack 13 a very good watch in this genre.

Attack 13 arrives with the confidence of a film that knows exactly what it wants to be: a glossy, fast-moving supernatural revenge thriller that weaponizes high school cruelty and wraps it in shamanic mysticism. Taweewat Wantha delivers a technically proficient genre exercise that occasionally transcends its formula through sheer commitment to nastiness and a willingness to complicate its own moral framework. The result is frustratingly uneven, a film with genuine strengths undermined by an overreliance on digital artifice and narrative shortcuts that drain tension from its most crucial moments. Korranid Laosubinprasoet commands the screen as Jinhandra with the kind of effortless charisma that elevates workmanlike material. She navigates the film's tonal shifts with impressive range, moving from wide-eyed newcomer to determined survivor without losing the character's essential groundedness. Her physicality in the volleyball sequences feels authentic, and she sells the terror of supernatural assault with convincing desperation. Nichapalak Thongkham faces the more challenging task of making Bussaba both monstrous and pitiable, first as a strutting teenage tyrant, then as a vengeful revenant. She succeeds more in the former mode, where her cruel charisma registers with uncomfortable authenticity. As a ghost, the performance becomes subsumed by visual effects work that too often replaces actor presence with digital menace. The supporting ensemble acquits itself adequately, though most characters remain thinly sketched archetypes: the loyal friend, the traumatized survivor, the complicit bystander. The screenplay attempts to have things multiple ways, beginning as a social realist portrait of institutional bullying before pivoting hard into supernatural hokum. The transition feels more jarring than intended, less a natural escalation than a genre substitution. Dialogue alternates between sharp character observation and clunky exposition, particularly when explaining the film's mystical mechanics. The script's most interesting gambit arrives in its third act recalibration, when it complicates the victim-perpetrator binary and suggests that cruelty circulates rather than originates from singular sources. This thematic sophistication doesn't entirely earn its keep, arriving too late to fully interrogate the revenge fantasy it's spent most of its runtime indulging, but it demonstrates ambition beyond mere body count accumulation. Character development remains stubbornly superficial outside of Jinhandra, with motivations often reduced to plot functionality rather than psychological coherence. Thematically, Attack 13 wants to explore the cyclical nature of abuse, the ways violence begets violence and victimhood can curdle into perpetration. It layers contemporary anxieties about social media visibility and digital permanence atop older concerns about supernatural retribution and karmic debt. The film understands that high school hierarchies operate with their own brutal logic, and that institutional indifference enables individual cruelty. Where it stumbles is in fully synthesizing these ideas with its horror mechanics. The shamanic resurrection plot feels imported from a different movie entirely, an occult MacGuffin that short-circuits more interesting questions about collective guilt and complicity. Still, there's something genuinely unsettling about watching teenage cruelty literalized as monstrous violence, and the film occasionally achieves a queasy recognition that the real horror preceded Bussaba's death. Visually, Attack 13 presents a highly polished, digitally intermediate aesthetic that prioritizes clarity and speed over atmosphere or dread. Cinematographer work favors bright, evenly lit compositions even in horror sequences, creating a curious antiseptic quality that undercuts visceral impact. The color palette skews toward cool blues and sterile whites in school settings, warming only in flashback sequences and domestic spaces. Camera movement remains functional rather than expressive, with standard coverage dominating over more adventurous shot design. The exception comes in the stalking sequences, where Wantha demonstrates genuine spatial intelligence, using architecture and sightlines to generate suspense. The production design convincingly renders a contemporary Thai high school as both mundane institutional space and gothic arena for psychological warfare, though the film rarely exploits this duality as fully as it might. The film's most significant liability is its CGI-heavy approach to supernatural horror. Digital ghosts lack weight and presence, gliding through scenes with video game smoothness that neuters their threat. Practical gore effects fare better, with several genuinely wince-inducing moments of bodily violation, but these feel at odds with the spectral sequences' floaty unreality. The score pounds relentlessly, telegraphing every emotional beat and drowning out potentially effective silence. It's the kind of aggressive musical underlining that suggests a lack of faith in the material's inherent power. Attack 13 will connect most strongly with genre enthusiasts willing to forgive technical shortcomings for intermittent payoffs and audiences invested in Thai horror's ongoing genre evolution. Viewers seeking genuine scares will likely come away disappointed, as the film prioritizes spectacle over sustained dread. Those interested in high school social dynamics filtered through horror metaphor will find occasional rewards, though the exploration remains surface-level. The film ultimately satisfies as slick, competent genre product that hints at greater depth without fully committing to it. It's professional work that achieves its modest commercial ambitions while leaving more provocative possibilities unexplored.