Product Details

• Actors: Jaran Ngamdee, Pataratida Pacharawirapong, Siwat Chotchaicharin, Pornthip Papanai
• Directors: Mark Duffield
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Thai
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tartan Video
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000H5U5YY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,290 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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 minutes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Scary Ghost, September 11, 2006

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S. Keel "Keel" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ghost of Mae Nak (DVD)

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.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time, January 1, 2007

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J. Gabriel Estrada Quintero "gabrielsantino@y... (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ghost of Mae Nak (DVD)

This is by far Tartan's worst release. For a distributor that has brought us great titles as The Booth, the vengeance trilogy and else, this is scary at its lowest. The legend of the ghost is explained in other reviews, and it is quite interesting, to say the least. But this pseudo movie is not even that. Directed by a long-time contributor of B-movies (check his filmography), The Ghost of Mae Nak fails to be scary, is not stylish, and not even interesting. But it certainly is predictable, boring, lame, has the worst dialogues you'll hear in a long time, and it is plainly mediocre. Perhaps it is the style of the westerner director, he has shown that he likes/loves Thailand (Butterfly Man), but his skills as a director are not enough to create anything interesting.
Watch Shutter, that one is truly creepy and is told by Thais who really understand Thai and know how to film. Don't waste your time with this dud.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars RENT IT IF YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF, January 27, 2007

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celestial3 (DALY CITY, CA. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ghost of Mae Nak (DVD)

I'M SORRY BUT THIS IS NOT A MOVIE YOU WOULD WANT TO SPEND ANY MONEY ON. REALLY. I WOULD ALSO NOT RECOMMEND EVEN RENTING ( BUT DO THAT IF YOU MUST SEE FOR YOURSELF ) IT AS AFTER THE FIRST APPEARENCE OF THE GHOST IT'S ALL A STRAIGHT DOWNHILL RIDE. IF AMAZON HAD A NO STAR THAT'S WHAT I WOULD HAVE GIVEN THIS. YOU'RE WAITING FOR THAT MOMENT THAT REALLY NEVER COMES. A VERY WEAK EFFORT.