Tamnan Krasue/Demonic Beauty
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bin Banluerit
Written by	Yuthlert Sippapak
Starring	Lakana Wattanawongsiri Nak-rob Traipoe
Production company	Twin Pictures
Distributed by	Sahamongkol Film International
Release date	November 15, 2002 (2002-11-15)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Thailand
Languages	Thai Khmer

Tamnan Krasue/Demonic Beauty (Thai: ตำนานกระสือ, also Tamnan Krasue) is a 2002 Thai supernatural horror film written and directed by Bin Banluerit. The film concerns the krasue ghost legend that is common in Southeast Asian countries.

Plot

The Thai have defeated the Khmer Empire in the mid-18th century and taken the lovely Princess Tarawatee prisoner. Seeing her beauty, the Thai ruler weds her, but then later sees her in the arms of another man. He sentences them both to death – one through beheading and the other to be burnt to death. While waiting for her execution, the Princess hears from a fellow inmate that in a small village not too far away lives a young woman called Daow who is her exact physical double. As flames start to burn around her, the Princess sends her spirit to inhabit the body of Daow, but just as her spirit zips off to find her double, Daow is killed by a magical spell. In this manner the spirit ends up inhabiting a deceased body that soon springs to life to everyone's amazement. The body is now partly Daow's but also partly a vengeful ghost. Daow leads a normal life during the day, but at night a voracious greed overcomes her and she desperately needs to feed on blood and entrails. Thus her head slips away from the body to satisfy her insatiable hunger.^[1] This soon causes consternation among the villagers.