Pee Mak

Pee Mak (2013) is a Thai ghost comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Home from the war, soldier Mak invites four army buddies to stay in his home village and finally meet his young wife, Nak.

The welcome is warm — the friends even get a house of their own — and everything looks fine, until the rumors start. Neighbors whisper that Nak has been dead for a while. The buddies catch on long before Mak does: odd sounds after dark, an arm that reaches a little too far, silence where people should be. They want to drag him out of danger, but he loves his wife too much to hear a word against her. Mario Maurer and Davika Hoorne play a couple for whom death is no obstacle.

Director Banjong Pisanthanakun reworked the old Thai legend of the ghost Mae Nak into a blend of horror, farce and genuine romance, and it paid off: the film became the highest-grossing Thai release of its era. Scares and laughs sit right next to each other here, and few movies pull that off so smoothly. Stream Pee Mak (2013) online on iFILM.