Mystics in Nakhon Si Thammarat, also known as Wizards of Waverly Place: Mystics in Nakhon Si Thammarat, is a 2007 anime-influenced Western-animated supernatural horror film directed by David DeLuise. The film stars Skyler Samuels, Jason Segel, Adam Baldwin, Meaghan Martin, Kath Soucie, and Lauren Tom. The film focuses on dark magic and borrows from Martime Southeast Asian folklore and Mainland Southeast Asian folklore, specifically the Krasue and the Penanggalan, a blood-sucking creatures that appear in the form of a flying head with organs and entrails still attached.
Plot[]
Gigi Hollingsworth is a teenage girl from New York City who goes to Nakhon Si Thammarat, a city that located in Southern Thailand to write a book about voodoo and dark magic. She learns of Krasue magic from her lover named Michael Oswalt, who says that it is the most powerful form of dark magic and that it can be used to kill. After attending a ceremonial ritual, Michael agrees to help Gigi study magic, and they share a kiss as an unknown man watches from afar. The next night, after a brief thunderstorm, the two meet the cackling leader of the Krasue cult, an old witch with long fingernails known as the Queen of the Krasue.
The Queen of the Krasue shows the two her face, but says that her face changes every time she makes an appearance. Before leaving, the Queen shakes hands with Gigi, and her severed arm is left in Gigi's grip. She drops it in fright, and the arm crawls a short distance and stops. The following night, Gigi and Michael bring bottles of goat's blood to quench the Queen's thirst. The Queen, revealing herself only as a prehensile tongue, orders Gigi to take off her miniskirt, and carves a spell into Gigi's left upper leg. The Queen demands that Gigi return the next night, and that Michael Oswalt is not to join her side.
The next day, Gigi asks Michael to read the spell on her left upper leg, but he can only decipher the word "Krasue". At midnight, wearing a long skirt, Gigi ventures into the graveyard. The Queen appears, cackling, and Gigi laughs maniacally and dances with her, and they transform into a pair of female Dobermanns. Later on, Michael's aunt-in-law, Samantha Weatherly, teaches him mantras which can counteract Krasue magic. Gigi tells Michael that she and the Queen could communicate telepathically, and that she envisioned destroying a wall of fire, which Michael says means that she killed someone somewhere. Gigi feels sick, but tells Michael that the Queen will heal her sickness that night. In her meeting with the Queen that night, Gigi's head, organs, and entrails detach from her body. Now a floating vampiric head under the control of the Queen, Gigi's head flies into the home of a pregnant Chinese lady and sucks out the unborn baby from the mother's womb.
Gigi's head returns to her body, her sickness is healed, and the blood she devoured invigorates the Queen's youthfulness and power. They transform into a pair of female reticulated pythons as Michael watches them in horror from the bushes, and Gigi awakens as a human and vomits tokay gecko, leaving Michael horrified and speechless. During the night, in the form of fireballs, the Queen and Gigi defeat one of the Queen's enemies. The unknown man witnesses Gigi head flying, and he tells Samantha, who informs her colleagues of the evil and retreats to meditate. The Queen appears to Gigi as a teenage girl and detaches her head again. Samantha finds Gigi's headless body, and the townspeople attempt to ward off the flying head. Samantha tells her nephew-in-law Michael that Gigi is no longer the girl he knew and loves, and they bury her body to prevent the head from reattaching. Michael dreams of Gigi, who pleads for her body to be exhumed.
That night, the Queen and the flying head appear to Samantha and her nephew-in-law Michael in the graveyard. The Queen, revealed to be an old nemesis of Samantha, uses her powers to disinter Gigi's body. The head reattaches, and the Queen electrocutes Samantha and slashes her neck, seemingly kills her. The unknown man named Jonah Weatherly, revealed to be Michael's cousin-in-law and Samantha's eldest nephew, tries to attack the Queen with a wooden baseball bat but is killed by her in the process. Michael's aunt-in-law Samantha, who fakes her death at the hands of the Queen appears and attacks the Queen in retaliation for killing her eldest nephew. The Queen transforms into a humanoid boar, which Samantha stabs in the heart with a holy dagger. Becoming a masked figure, the Queen shoots green-colored energy blast at Samantha, who projects a blue-colored energy blast in return, causing an explosion. The Queen and Gigi are killed by the sunrise.
Voice cast[]
- Skyler Samuels as Gigi Hollingworth, Alexandra "Alex" Russo's nemesis and Michael Oswalt's ex-lover.
- Kath Soucie as Samantha Weatherly
- Jason Segel as Michael Oswalt
- Adam Baldwin as Jonah Weatherly
- Lauren Tom as the Old Queen of the Krasue
- Meaghan Martin as the Young Queen of the Krasue