Ghosts are seen repeatedly in a forest and scare many trespassers. Ta-Kien, the spirit who's ruling this area, doesn't like people to hunt animals there, and cutting down trees is even worse. But you bet she gets really, really angry when a new dam is built so that her forest is flooded. A leading engineer and his daughter try and make peace with Ta-Kien (nice pagan motif), but the architect who constructed the dam wants to kill the immortal (?) fairy at any price. Apart from this supernatural conflict, there is also a much more natural one when two rivals are fighting to marry the above mentioned daughter. "Ta-Kien" is not just concerned about horror - apart from 3 or 4 scary scenes, it is rather mild - but has a good story, characters that make sense, great locations and also a realistic background (poor villagers have to leave their homes due to the new dam) which makes the appearances of the ghost twice as spooky. Sympathetic movie with a few flaws (some effects, slow introduction) but altogether enjoyable.

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While animal hunting, Wittaya and Lokrai inadvertently offend Nang Ta-Kian, the guardian spirit of the forest, who then kills Lokrai. Vittaya is forced to take care of his friend's son, Tong Kam. As a young man, Tong Kam falls in love with Vittaya's daughter Porn but Vittaya prefers Trai, a civil engineer who came to their village to coordinate the building of a dam. When the dam was completed, the village flooded and Wittaya was tasked with clearing every tree, including a big Ta-Kian tree. As he set about his task, awful events began to befall everyone close to him, including his daughter who became a permanent sleeping princess. Wittaya decided to re-plant the tree stub again in order to appease the soul of Ta-Kian and hopefully break the sleeping spell on Porn. However, hidden threats still lurk in the forest...

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