That's So Raven: Mystics in Udon Thani is 2009 anime-influenced Western animated supernatural horror film directed by Jenifer Lewis and Cheech Marin. The film stars Brooke Lyons, Adam Baldwin, Susanne Blakeslee, Yuri Lowenthal, Mindy Sterling, and Lauren Tom. The film focuses on dark magic and borrows from Maritime 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[]
Nikki Logan (Brooke Lyons) is a teenage girl from Malibu, California who goes to Udon Thani to write a book about voodoo and dark magic. She learns of Krasue magic from her lover named Jonah Weatherly, 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, Jonah agrees to help Nikki study dark magic, and they share a kiss as an mysterious 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 Nikki, and her severed arm is left in Nikki's grip. She drops it in fright, and the arm crawls a short distance and stops. The following night, Nikki and Jonah bring bottles of blood to quench the Queen's thirst. The Queen, revealing herself only as a prehensile tongue, orders Nikki to take off her long pants, and carves a spell into Nikki's left upper leg. The Queen demands that Nikki return the next night, and that Jonah Weatherly is not to join her.
The next day, Nikki asks Jonah to read the spell on her left upper leg, but he can only decipher the word "Krasue". At midnight, wearing a long skirt, Nikki ventures into the graveyard. The Queen appears, cackling, and Nikki laughs maniacally and dances with her, and they transform into a pair of female boars. Later on, Jonah's mother, Katrina Weatherly (nee Walls) teaches him mantras which can counteract Krasue magic. Nikki tells Jonah that she and the Queen could communicate telepathically, and that she envisioned destroying a wall of fire, which Jonah says means that she killed someone somewhere. Nikki feels ill, but tells Jonah that the Queen will cure her illness that night. In her meeting with the Queen that night, Jonah's head, organs, and entrails detach from her body. Now a floating vampiric head under the control of the Queen, Jonah's head flies into the home of a pregnant lady and sucks out the unborn baby from the mother's womb.
Nikki's head returns to her body, her illness is cured, and the blood she devoured invigorates the Queen's youthfulness and power. They transform into a pair of female reticulated pythons as Jonah watches in shock from the bushes, and Nikki awakens as a human and vomits tokay gecko in the toilet, leaving Jonah speechless and horrified. During the night, in the form of fireballs, the Queen and Nikki defeat one of the Queen's enemies. The mysterious man witnesses Nikki's head flying, and he tells Katrina, who informs her colleagues of the evil and retreats to meditate. The Queen appears to Nikki as a teenage girl and detaches her head again. Katrina finds Nikki's headless body, and the townspeople attempt to ward off the flying head. Katrina tells her son Jonah that Nikki is no longer the girl he loves and knew, and they bury her body to prevent the head from reattaching. Jonah dreams of Nikki, who pleads for her body to be exhumed.
That night, the Queen and the flying head appear to Katrina and her son Jonah in the graveyard. The Queen, revealed to be an old nemesis of Katrina, uses her powers to disinter Nikki's body. The head reattaches, and the Queen electrocutes Katrina and slashes her neck, seemingly kills her. The mysterious man, revealed to be Jonah's cousin-in-law named Peter Oliver, tries to attack the Queen with a wooden baseball bat but is killed by her in the process. Jonah's mother Katrina (who faked her death at the hands of the Queen) appears and attacks the Queen. The Queen transforms into a humanoid boar, which Katrina stabs in the heart with a holy dagger. Becoming a masked figure, the Queen shoots a crimson red-colored energy blast at Katrina, who projects a blue-colored energy blast in return, causing an explosion. The Queen and Nikki are killed by the sunrise.
Voice cast[]
- Brooke Lyons as Nikki Logan
- Adam Baldwin as Jonah Weatherly, Katrina's eldest son and Peter Oliver's cousin-in-law.
- Susanne Blakeslee as Katrina Weatherly (nee Walls)
- Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Oliver
- Mindy Sterling as the Old Queen of the Krasue
- Lauren Tom as the Young Queen of the Krasue