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Even though his wife is pregnant and needs to return to Bangkok, snake
dealer Mer Kok insists on remaining in the countryside until he gets his
hands on a legendary white snake. The night he has finally obtained a
white snake though, his wife gives birth to a daughter ... but the house
catches fire killing both Mer Kok and his wife, only the baby survives,
thanks to the aide of the white snake - but the white snake is some kind of
magic being and uses the little one as its new body from now on. Years
pass and the baby girl has grown into lovely Poon Rue, whom the villager
who has found her in the burning house as a baby, has brought up together
with his own daughter, the equally lovely Van Far. Of late, many people
have died an unnatural death in Poon Rue's village, for which reason a
special investigator from Bangkok, Kroo Prakit, has come to the
countryside to sort things out. His first action is to have the bodies of
those who have died exhumed, but in each of their coffins, there is
nothing but a snake. Soon Kroo Prakit figures there has to be a
supernatural explanation for the whole affair, and with the help of a
local monk he figures a white snake sorceress has to be behind the murders
... Poon Rue and Van Far have both fallen for handsome Kroo Prakit, but
when he favours Van Far over her, Poon Rue, who is of course really the
white snake sorceress, somehow makes it appear as if Van Far is the
sorceress, and she is almost burned at the stake like a witch. Soon
suspicion falls upon Poon Rue herself, and it's up to Van Far to prove
these suspicions ... but Van Far is much too nice a person to do anything
to hurt her adoptive sister. Sister Poon Rue however has no such
reservations, as she lures Kroo Prakit to her cave using her hypnotic
powers. This though proves without a doubt that she indeed is the white
snake sorceress, and now Van Far gathers a bunch of villagers to fight
Poon Rue, and after many dangers and much to and fro, Van Far and her
motley crew manage to defeat and kill the white snake sorceress, and in
the end, she and Kroo Prakit become a couple ... A cheap and
unspectacular adaptation of a rural folk tale - which is not necessarily a
bad thing, since the lack of budget and special effects paired with exotic
locale, a filmmaker's imagination, and the naive charm of most horror
folklore often leads to incredibly charming films ... not in this case
though, Legend of White Snake is an unimaginative retelling of the tale
that seriously lacks in action, features a bunch of uninteresting
characters and bad comic interludes, and makes only very little of its
Thai backdrops, but worst of all, the whole thing, running about 2 1/4
hours, is way too long for its own good, and dead boring just for that.
Not worth your time and money.
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