Pee MakPhraKanong expands the original story to include four of Mak’s friends who return with him from the war. In this new version of the legend, it is his fellow soldiers, rather than Mak himself, who discover Nak’s secret. The story has undergone a genre conversion: Pee MakPhraKanong is more of comedy than a horror movie. Nak does not kill anyone this time, and Mak’s mates provide some broad humor. There are also some comic anachronisms, to bring the story up to date for contemporary audiences. Mak, for instance, declares that his nickname should be Westernized and pronounced “Mark”.