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An architect has to renovate a traditional Thai house as a luxurious summer
residence. Inexplicably though, none of the local builders are willing to help
him, claiming the house is haunted. The architect does of course not believe in
such hocus pocus, until one night, when he plans to sleep in the house, 4
ghostly woman appear before him. Still, he believes they are just
hallucinations & remains undaunted, but then, in his dreams, he learns
about Jitra, the former owner of the house, who refused it to sell it to a
gangster, so the gangster blackmailed her husband Chart, who owed him a great
deal of money, to let him rape Jitra. After the rape, which happened with
Chart in the next room, drinking himself senseless, Jitra hanged herself ... When
the architect's employees find him that night, he seems to be possessed by
Jitra's spirit, so they take him to a buddhist priest, who exorcises him & fills
him in with the whole story of Jitra, who had inherited the house after the
war, with her parents making her promise that she uses it all her life as a
Thai-dancing school - which she did happily enough, but eventually the times
got bad & the school didn't make any more money. At the same time, Jitra's
husband Chart started drinking & taking opium, wasting all his &
Jitra's savings & soon owing a gangster a large sum of money ... who, as
mentioned above, has laid his eyes on the house, & when Jitra refuses to
sell, he forces Chart to let him rape her. After the rape, Jitra gathers her 3
remaining students, orphans left in her care, poisons them & then hangs
herself. Too late, Chart realizes what he has done ... Having heard the
story, the architect and the houseowners decide to not rebuild the house as a
summer residence after all, but make it into a museum of Thai-traditions, where
the 4 ghostly Thai dancers will fit in perfectly ... At first, the
film seems like a clichéd horror story that would even have
worked if direction and cinematography weren't way too flat to create any kind
of atmopsphere. Then though the film takes a turn into a very different direction,
telling the tearjerker story of the good woman abused, which now is
told in too great & uninteresting detail to create any tension. But what
really destroys the movie is the happy ending pulled out of the
hat all of a sudden which is neither satisfying for the ghoststory nor the
tearjerker aspects of the film.
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