- Both are based on the same storyline: Guy marries beautiful girl. Husband gets called to serve on war. Meanwhile pregnant wife has been waiting for him to return. A plot twist and the story goes on.
- One is a drama adaptation and the other one is a movie.
Set around the same legend of Nak and Mak.
Although the ending is slightly different, it is essentially the same except Nang Nak is like a serious storytelling and Pee Mak goes into the horror-comedy genre.
> Both MLs have to go somewhere
> Both FLs are pregnant while their ML is gone
> Both FL die during childbirth
> Both FL refuse to leave after dying
> Both FL wait for ML to come back
> Both FL create an illusion of being alive to the MLs
