maura-wesen I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I love to watch horror movies but I always dread how they end because most horror movies end with a scary 'it's after you now!' kind of ending. Although this film was listed as horror, I would definitely not categorize it as such. I loved the plot, I just wish it wasn't claiming to be a horror movie. It started off creepy with not even the audience knowing what was going on, as horror movies do, but it came to a peaceful ending with the poor drowned boy finding his resolution as the main character, Ton Chatree, makes peace with his family and especially his father. I very much enjoyed this movie. The only thing that could raise it to a 10 out of 10 would be if the ending had resolved all of the conflicts brought up, rather than just the most important ones. The two other conflicts being that Vichien wasn't the only person who had died on the campus, the cook's pregnant daughter also died, but that wasn't addressed after the beginning. The other conflict was that it was clear Vichien didn't drown by accident, it looked like someone was pulling his right foot down into the water causing him to drown. If this movie was correctly labeled not as a horror movie, and if it wasn't set up as a horror movie in the beginning and then turning into a drama movie instead, this movie would be a lot better.

Scarecrow-88 Chatree(Charlie Trairat) is sent to a boardinghouse for boys due to low grades and his current poor performance in school. Once there, a tight pack tell Chatree ghost stories which set up a terror in his mind which makes nights difficult for him. Adjusting and adapting to his new environment will prove difficult and uneasy, but Chatree soon makes at least one friend who starts up a conversation with him.DORM might be a bit too sappy and sad for some horror fans wanting edgy and visceral thrills because the filmmakers care about their little protagonist and his situation. They want us to sympathize with his predicament, but understand the father's reasons for his actions. Due to bad grades, his disapproving father sends Chatree to a boarding school hoping his boy will wise up and straighten himself out for the better. We have a dinner table memory where Chatree is informed that he would be "sent away", left by his parents in an institution where all the boys sleep in cots next to each other, washing themselves in the same bathroom. After ghost stories, told to him by a group of boys hoping to frighten him, leave Chatree terrified to urinate, resulting in peeing in his cot, the kid is tormented by his fellow students, a laughingstock. The school's master, Miss Pranee(Chintara Sukapatana), has an air of mystery about her(seemingly anguished about something we later learn has to do with a death, a record player stuck in a place during a key moment of a song symbolizing the chief problem later revealed) and we wonder if there is a ghost is roaming the halls at night, whether one of the stories regarding tragedy is in fact true. The culprit which led to Chatree being placed in the school is television. But, honestly, we see that this place really isn't as terrible as it first seems and the boys aren't imprisoned or oppressed, but have freedoms outside the classroom. Chatree finally finds a friendly companion in Vichien(Sirachuch Chienthaworn) who also seems to be desiring a buddy to hang out with, the two bonding, a revelation potentially shattering their camaraderie. DORM is less a spookshow as it is a melodrama involving a ghost who no one else sees other than Chatree. Is Vichien an imaginary friend, or is he a ghost who desperately longs for a pal in Chatree? We see that Chatree avoids his father as much as possible, not taking phone calls from pops who has guilt over his decision to leave the boy at the school. Probably the most memorable scene to me is the eerie image of a laboratory full of dissected rabbits used for scientific purposes. Another haunting recurrence shows a helpless Chatree having to watch a relived drowning of Vichien. I think DORM will receive the stigma of "generic" for attaining the "restless repeated cyclical event of a ghost's demise" plot as it pertains to why the spirit still remains active where he died in the past. There's an interesting character named Nui(a sullen kid, kind of creepy, nicknamed "Dr. Nui" by his friends)who tells Chatree he was witness to a motorcycle crash resulting in a death which continued every night the same time the driver was ejected and killed after speeding around a corner too fast. Nui informs Chatree that the spirit of the dead needs to be reborn or else the pattern goes on and on for infinity..Nui says that you must free your spirit from the body in order to help the restless ghost become unborn. So Chatree may just follow his "instructions" so that Vichien can have peace. Still, a storyline about friendship transcending life and death may be a bit syrupy(the score designed to tug on the heartstrings) for some onryo fans hoping for more scares and ghoulish shenanigans. If you like movies about a kid growing up during a term in a brand new location using the supernatural as a means to further the story, then DORM might just be for you.

Jessica Carvalho Thailand. Ton Chatree is a twelve year old boy who has family problems and is sent by his father to a boarding school to study more and have some discipline. The boy feels bad about his father idea, and things don't stay easier for him once he arrives the school: he doesn't have friends there and the school itself is very creepy. Every night his schoolmates tell ghost stories,specially about a boy that died in the school's swimming pool and a young pregnant woman that committed suicide. Feeling scared and out-casted, Chatree starts a friendship with another lonely boy called Vichien, who has many similar problems like he has. Very soon, Chatree will discover a secret about why his teach Ms. Pranee is so strange, and that Vichien is in fact the boy that drowned in the school's swimming pool.When I watched ''Dek hor'', I was expecting it to be a horror movie, so I stayed very surprised when I verified that it actually is a drama who tells a tale of friendship. Even not being what I expected to be, the story worked pretty well, and the sacrifice that Ton does to help Vichien is very touching and deserves to be not only recognized, but also appreciated.

faiz_far_east If I had to see this movie over and over again I will possibly like to see this movie over and over again. Ton(Charlie Trairat)'s acting looks so real in this movie and the part which is very realistic was the part when he cried when he remembered about his family when he's eating. Although we see it's not as scary or gory like shutter, Dorm can make children watch it. Not all Asian people are liking those scary and gory movies. It also makes people in Malaysia(what i'd seen) touched when the ghost(Wichien)(Sirarath Jianthaworn) looks like he really exist and when he crashed his legs and wishing for help but no one helped him. I admit that this movie is not scary but somehow it really makes people like to see it. Another thing is this movie makes people want to solve all mysteries that happened in the movie. Some examples of the mysteries are what's Pranee(Jintara Sukaphat)'s commitment with Wichien and why Ton hates his father.