Ghost Banana Tree

Ghost Banana Tree
Poster for "Ghost Banana Tree"
Directed by Heng Tola
Produced by Heng Tola
Written by Mao Samnang
Starring Poan Pasda
Ly Taro
Distributed by Campro production
Release date
 24 July 2004
(Cambodia)
Running time
 120 minutes
Country Cambodia
Language Khmer

Ghost Banana Tree (Cambodian title: Khmoach Daoem Chek Chvia, Khmer: ខ្មោចដើមចេកជ្វា) is a 2005 film. It is a successful Cambodian horror film based on a Cambodian ghost story about a vengeful ghost woman haunting a banana tree and killing her husband. It's the fourth successful horror film by Campro production, following ang Neath, The Forest and The Haunted House.

Tagline

Ha! Handsome Man hides in Byemane Tree thinking I can't find you

Plot synopsis

The story is based on a Khmer tale. A man goes abroad for business. While he is away, his wife falls ill and dies. Her vengeful spirit begins to haunt the people of the village. The husband returns and believes his wife's ghost is actually his living wife until her ghost’s arm grows unnaturally long. He flees the house for help, but, even after a proper Khmer burial, his wife’s ghost follows him to a Buddhist monk’s house, where he has sought safety. As he recites prayers, his wife’s ghost climbs one of the many nearby banana trees to enter the house through a window. (It is traditionally considered inauspicious by the Khmer to grow banana trees close to a house, especially near a window.) She kills her husband, and the film ends with the couple’s spirits flying to begin their next life together.

Origins

The film is based on a Cambodian legend traceable to at least the 16th century. A folk belief, which many Khmer still follow, stems from this legend, forbidding people from planting banana trees next to their houses as a ghost spirit could enter the house by climbing in on a banana leaf. If there was already a banana tree growing close by, all of the banana tree's leaves touching or near the house would be cut off for safety.[1] This centuries-old tradition is most common in more remote areas today.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ghost of a banana tree:". Khmer.org. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
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