Kijsada Paradise horror promo teases terror

Thai horror is the lane here — and the hook is simple. Kijsada Paradise just dropped its first official teaser, and the whole sell is an abandoned water park, a missing friend, and a teen dare that goes very wrong. That landed on May 4 through Major Group and 13 Studio, with Fourth Nattawat Jirochtikul and Yorch Yongsilp Wongpanitnon front and center. The reason people are paying attention is that this is not just another vague “coming soon” promo anymore — it now has a public teaser, a clearer story setup, and a listed Thai release date of June 11, 2026. ### What actually got released? The new piece is the first official teaser, not just a poster or a fan-cut clip. Major Group uploaded it to YouTube on May 4, and the official 13 Studio channel also has an English-subtitled version. The teaser’s basic pitch is a group of teenagers sneaking into the abandoned Kijsada Paradise water park to play hide-and-seek, only for one friend to disappear and something much worse to come back in his place. (youtube.com) ### Why is the water park the whole point? Because it gives the movie its own shape fast. Horror has done schools, forests, hospitals, and apartment blocks to death. An abandoned water park is different — bright, public, built for fun, then left to rot. Thairath’s early write-up leaned hard on that image too, framing the park as a haunted local-legend space and calling it the core of the film’s eerie identity. (youtube.com) ### What’s the story under the imagery? Basically, it is a friendship horror. 13 Studio’s own logline says a student named Jod, described as autistic, vanishes “for real” during a prank hide-and-seek game at the amusement park. His friends return to find him, but instead uncover a terrifying story and a hidden secret at the site. That matters because the movie is not selling only jump scares — it is selling guilt, group tension, and the idea that the dare itself broke something. (en.thairath.co.th) ### Who’s in it? The names doing the work are Fourth Nattawat and Yorch Yongsilp, who are the main cast faces most likely to pull younger Thai and regional fandom audiences into the movie early. Thairath’s cast list also includes Zen Jaturawit, Pannawit Phattanasiri, Sorathon Chaloemlapsombut, Worapat Pakphatphornpob, and Waratthip Kittiphaisan. So this is built as an ensemble teen horror, not a one-star vehicle. (13studio.info) ### Is this a big breakout or just fan noise? Right now, it looks more like a solid early spark than a full breakout. Major Group’s teaser had reached about 56,000 views four days after upload, while the English-subtitled upload on 13 Studio’s own channel was much smaller. So the attention is real, but it is still at the teaser stage — enough to show interest, not enough to prove a regional horror hit yet. (en.thairath.co.th) ### Where does 13 Studio fit in? That’s the bigger industry angle. Screen Daily flagged Kijsada Paradise in March when 13 Studio made its Filmart market debut with its first two horror projects. The company is new, Bangkok-based, and explicitly built around Thai horror. So this teaser is also part of a larger test — whether 13 Studio can turn market buzz into a recognizable label fast. (youtube.com) ### Why did the release date seem fuzzy before? Because it was. In March, Screen Daily still described the film as tentatively aimed at late 2025. By April and May, newer materials shifted to a confirmed June 11, 2026 theatrical date in Thailand. Turns out this is one of those projects where old listings and newer promo materials briefly coexisted, which made the rollout look messier than it really was. (screendaily.com) ### Bottom line Kijsada Paradise is now a real near-term release, not just a rumored Fourth Nattawat horror project. The teaser’s job is pretty obvious — sell the abandoned water-park setting, make the missing-friend premise stick, and position 13 Studio as a horror label worth watching. On that front, it worked. (youtube.com) (screendaily.com)