The Ghost of Mae Nak
by Mark Duffield
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Actor: Jaran Ngamdee, Pataratida Pacharawirapong, Pornthip Papanai, Siwat ChotchaicharinDirector: Mark Duffield
Brand: Genius
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Thai (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tartan Video
Movie Reviews of The Ghost of Mae Nak
Movie Review: One Scary Ghost
Summary: 5 Stars
The legend of the ghost of Nang Nak is a part of Thai folklore, the story of an 19th Century 'angry ghost' who lived in a bucolic palm-fringed village outside of Bangkok named Pra Khanong..
By 2005, Pra Khanong is part of the dirty old metropolis, the giant grey concrete slab of Bangkok. No longer a place for a rural ghost.
I have never even been there - there's no compelling reason to go. It is ten minutes from where I live, but it is just another part of inner city urban blight nowadays.
This movie works because it treats Bangkok not as a glitzy tourist venue, full of pachyderms, tuk tuks, ladyboys and long-tail boats, but a functioning, ordinary, third-world city in which regular Thai people live with limited budgets and modern fears.
Into this is transported a semi-Gothic, semi J-Horror story, that derives from the old mythology.
Thai movies are often unsophisticated, self-referential and burlesque. This one doesn't fall into that trap, perhaps because it is Directed by a Westerner and doesn't play to stereotype.
I liked it.
Summary of The Ghost of Mae Nak
A young newlywed couple acquires an old abandoned house that bring them into contact with a vengeful spirit. At first the ghost protects the couple from unscrupulous visitors but it becomes apparent that it expects a terrible favor in return. Only by setting the spirit free can they escape its wrath. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 10/10/2006 Run time: 103 minutesSimilar DVD Movies
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