A Useful Ghost

A Useful Ghost

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

Davika Hoorne

2025 / Thailand / 130mins

The Roxy / 14-Feb / 2:00PM

March is a lonely factory owner rebuilding his life after the tragic death of his wife, Nat. At his lowest moment, March finds companionship where he least suspects it: in a possessed vacuum cleaner. As March explores this new relationship, he discovers dark secrets of who else might haunt the family business.

From exciting first-time filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, A Useful Ghost is a wild trip of a genre bending satire. Don’t let the presence of a haunted vacuum cleaner fool you. This is a film that works all at once as a love triangle, dark comedy, horror, and biting commentary on Thailand’s political landscape. It is a film that keeps you on the edge of your seat, unsure where it will go next. Yet, throughout all the twists are the two great central performances of Witsarut Himmarat and Davika Hoorne that give the film an emotional core that grounds all the chaos around it.

There are very few films that you must see to believe and A Useful Ghost can be added to that list. Pure filmmaking magic that balances all the different elements perfectly. -JD