Ming is an ordinary girl who has been able to contact the dead since she was young. She keeps trying to escape from a mysterious ghost that has been following her for 15 years. Finally, she meets a young doctor who visits her to find out the reason behind the death of his father - he believes that his father was murdered. This brings back terrible memories from Ming's past, and she must now face a truth that is more terrible than the ghosts themselves.
20-year-old Ming (Nuttamonkan Srinikornchot) suffers from unusual visions. At any time or place, she can see dead people and spirits awaiting rebirth. In the 15 years since she discovered her ability, she has led a nomadic lifestyle, unable to stay in one place for too long, as the dead in other places are always calling to her. Wherever she goes, she follows the spirit of her dead mother, who draws her to places where tragic deaths have occurred, be it murder, suicide or ghastly accidents. Although it seems terrifying to see and talk to ghosts every day, Ming is safer with them. The spirits of the dead, as well as her own dead mother's ghost, protect her from something more terrifying that has been following her for the last 15 years.
Everything changes when she meets Budd (Anuchit Sapanpong), a 25-year-old pathologist who works in a mortuary amongst cadavers. He seeks Ming out, fiercely believing that she can solve the dark secret of his father's death and find out once and for all whether it was really suicide as the police reports claim, or murder, as Budd himself believes. After meeting Budd, Ming has to delve into her past to find clues, and rediscovers an awful truth in her past that is much scarier than anything she has faced before. The lives of these two protagonists are more entangled with each other than they ever knew.
A memorably chilling moment in the movie is when Ming stands on the balcony of the new apartment she found and hears a croaky voice above her head, menacingly repeating the word, "you..." When she looks up, there is an old, painfully thin man who looks like a living corpse, leaning so far over the balcony above it looks as though he might be a ghost floating above her. He threateningly tells her she isn't welcome, as the apartment doesn't belong to her. While Ming is unfazed by this, she freaks out later on when the thing hunting her finds her again and terrorises her yet again.
Poor Ming. From the start, she is inundated with requests from people from all walks of life to communicate with their loved ones who have passed on. She has the ability to see how they died and converse with these spirits to convey messages to their living family members to move on with their lives. The film introduces these people, dead and living, with such gory intensity, even showing a scene of a fatal accident that Ming is able to witness as she talks to the dead involved, right down to the charred, glowing remains in the wreckage, the embers of which slowly fade as their souls slip away. Then there's a man who is haunted by the ghost of a woman he had raped and killed, who wants Ming to communicate with her spirit to end his misery. When all three of them finally come face-to-face to find out the truth of what happened, more gore and terror ensues.
The ghosts who follow Ming are frightening in appearance, not to mention some of the live characters, too. Any sane, normal person who has gone through what Ming went through would have probably committed suicide by now or ended up in a mental institution. However Ming is not a normal girl, and her sanity is questionable. In fact, throughout the film the audience is left wondering whether she really sees ghosts or if these visions are just manifestations of the traumatic memories from her past that her unstable mind is working hard to repress. One flaw to the movie is that it is a little too long for the story and drags towards the end. It would do better to shave off half an hour to keep things moving. To digress a little bit, the poster art for "Deadly Ghost" would make you think this film is far trashier than it really is, which is a pity.
Effectively chilling as a psychological thriller and horror flick, "Deadly Ghost" is one scary movie that will please audiences looking for a good mixture of gore, suspense, drama and terror. Don't expect another "Shutter", but do keep an open mind when boarding the horror express called "Deadly Ghost", and enjoy the ride.
