Bringing new light to one of Thailand's oldest ghost stories, a newlywed couple bring to life a 100 year old ghost of Mae Nak Prakanong, a victim of love's divine fate. Although the ghost of Mae Nak protects the couple from a sleezy landlord and two ruthless criminals, she in return requests a near impossible favor of the two.
Well come to find out the ghost of Mae Nak Prakanong is really a ghost of a woman who died during childbirth who's name was Nak and lived by the Prakanong river. Anyways her memory has become the subject of many different legends, most of them made up. This one is about her ghost coming back to life to torment a newlywed couple that end up renting out the house she died near. The house is old and falling apart but the newlyweds Mak and Nak think it's perfect so they buy it. Now during the time of the buy and moving in Mak goes and buys Nak a antique brooch which happens to be a fragment of the skull cut out of Mae Nak's skull.
 
One night while the couple is away a couple of idiots break in the house and steals all their gifts including the brooch, and before you know it Nak is in search for the skeleton of Mae Nak and Mak is in a coma after being hit by a bus. The only way to bring Mak out of the coma is to return the fragment of skull to it's rightful spot in the center of Mae Nak's skull.
So this movie, I heard alot of crap about, alot of bad things, but you gotta take into consideration alot of it was by people that don't like watching subtitled movies, which is pathetic being that I actually enjoyed this movie. I thought it had a great story and the FX were awesome. A great decapitation and a badass scene where a dude gets cut in half by a sheet of glass pushed this movie ahead of most ghost stories for me. The Ghost of Mae Nak herself even looked impressive, extremely creepy and conviencing, I thought this movie was great.
To everyone that's ok with ghost stories, this is pretty damn good for being from Thailand. If anyone tells you this movies sucks tell them they have no taste in movies, like I'm about to do. I'm not disappointed one bit in this movie.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Mark Duffield
WRITING CREDITS: Mark Duffield
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Pataratida Pacharawirapong, Siwat Chotchaicharin, Porntip Papanai
COUNTRY: Thailand
RUNTIME: 101 min
RATING: 7/10
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