The supernatural love-legend of Pring the landlord's daughter (Koontira Sattabongkot) & their servant Thai (Ninnart Sinchai) provides the theme of the ghostly horror film Crying Fiddle (2004).

The young lovers played a two-string instrument resembling a fiddle, fell in love, were separated by disapproving parents.

A woman slain at the height of sexual frustration always comes back as a demoness in Thailand ghost stories (for a better example, see The Ghost of Mae Nak, 2005).

Alas, this Thailand entry into the j-horror category of scary girl ghosts is very badly acted with an overall made-for-TV ineptitude.

Nothing new is added to a tiresome plotline about a malevolent girl ghost denied love in life & battled by Buddhist priests as she pursues lovelorn vengeance via cheap-cheap-cheap FX. She wants revenge for her wrongful death & she wants Thai to join her in the afterlife, & will destroy the whole village if that is what it takes to have her way.

There's not much plot continuity & little bits of action are dashed into the mix whenever the scriptwriter got stuck at some point which will never afterward picked up again. So the rationales for character behaviors are as thin as the acting itself.

The soundtrack is better than the film, making good use of the traditional instrument of the title.

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