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Feb 1, 1973 · Krasue Sao: Directed by S. Naowaratch. With Sombat Metanee, Metta Roongrat, Sulaleewan Suwanatat, Pisamai Wilaisak.
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Origin
Belief in the existence of the Krasue is shared across Southeast Asia, and its origin is difficult to verify. However, it likely originates from folklore. In Thailand, the Krasue is believed to be a cursed individual (usually a female) who engaged in various sins and fraudulent conducts during her previous life. After she dies, her sins cause her to be reborn as a phut (Thai: ภูต) that has to live off wasted, uncooked or rotten food. In recent time, the Thai entertainment industry has fiction...
Cambodian folklore
The word អាប (Ahp/Aap), derived from a Sanskrit word आप्यति (āpyati, "to cause anyone to suffer").Ahp in Cambodian folklore, is usually a woman who is half spirit and half-mortal. During the daytime, they appeared to look like normal human beings but during nighttime they ascended, leaving their mortal body with only their head and their organs, gravitating to find food. They were believed to feast on smelly things; blood, raw meats, villager's farm animals, corpses, feces, placentas, newborn...
Thai folklore
The Krasue is under a curse that makes it ever hungry and always active in the night when it goes out hunting to satisfy its gluttony, seeking blood to drink or raw flesh to devour. It may attack cattle or chickens in the darkness, drinking their blood and eating their internal organs. It may also prey on pieces of cattle, such as water buffalo that have died of other causes during the night. If blood is not available the Krasue may eat feces or carrion.Clothes left outside would be found soi...
A possible scientific explanation is that Krasue sightings are caused by blazing flames from methane gas particles emitted from rotten organic matters such as found in farms and fields, where Krasue sightings are commonly reported. However, according to Associate Professor Dr. Sirintornthep Towprayoon, an energy researcher from King Mongkut's Unive...
Film and television
Countries where the Krasue tale is popular have adapted it to film. Several Thai films depict this spirit, including 1973 movie Krasue Sao (Ghosts of Guts Eater), Thai: กระสือสาว with Sombat Metanee, which features a fight between two Krasues, Krasue krahai lveat/Filth Eating Spirit' (1985) Itthirit Nam Man Phrai Thai: อิทธิฤทธิ์น้ำมันพราย (Oil of Eternal Life) made in 1984, with Tanid Pongmanoon and Praew Mardmarud, Krasue Kat Pop Thai: กระสือกัดปอบ (1990) with Bin Bunluerit and Trirak Rakka...
Others
Representations of Krasue, often humorous, are very common in Thai comic books. Since the Krasue is a popular subject in some places of Southeast Asia, especially in Thailand, there are even costumes, dolls, keyholders and lampssold and worn in Krasue form. A Krasue features as the main antagonist of the 2013 horror game Eyes: The Horror Game. This interpretation shows the Krasue as a woman who was abused by her husband to the point of death, being reincarnated as a ghost to enact revenge. Th...
Chutima Pragatwutisarn (2010) (ชุติมา ประกาศวุฒิสาร), Evil Woman in a Beautiful Body: Femininity and the Crisis of Modernity in Thai Society, Chulalongkorn UniversityBaumann, Benjamin (2013) Tamnan Krasue - Constructing a Khmer Ghost for a Thai Film. in: Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (14)Baumann, Benjamin (2014) "From Filth-Ghost to Khmer-Witch: Phi Krasue’s Changing Cinematic Construction and its Symbolism", in: Horror Studies5(2), pp. 183–196Baumann, Benjamin (2016) "The Khmer Witch Project: Demonizing the Khmer by Khmerizing a Demon", in: Bräunlein and Lauser (eds.) Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond. Leiden: Brill. pp. 141–183Macula's illustration of (krasue) Archived 29 May 2017 at the Wayback MachineAka - Krasue Sao. There is a Krasue loose in a small rural village and livestock is turning up bloody and torn apart. A Krasue is one of Thailand's many folklore monsters or ghosts. They have all types - phi means ghost and there are variations of them.
- S. Naowaratch
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Mar 20, 2019 · Set in a rural village in the 1940s, it tells the story of Sai (Panthira Pipityakorn), a woman by day and krasue by night, and her triangulated romance with two men, one a krasue hunter,...
- Kong Rithdee
Krasue Sao (1973) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jan 4, 2017 · The krasue is a peculiar South East Asian variation of the vampire myth, believed to be Hindu or Buddhist in origin, and takes the form of a curse or case of demonic possession.
Sulaleewan Suwanatat Cast. Pisamai Wilaisak Cast. Critics reviews. Before her death, a grandmother gives her granddaughter a magical ring that’ll give her dead spirit power over her. The spirit manifests itself when her head detaches from her body at night and flies away with guts dangling under it, seeking blood to drink or raw flesh to devour.
