A Useful Ghost

Pee Chai Dai Ka

The wife of a factory owner returns from the dead to haunt a vacuum cleaner in Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s wildly inventive and wonderfully original film.

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Credits

  • Director-screenwriter

    Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

  • With

    Davika Hoorne, Wisarut Himmarat, ApasirI Nitibhon

  • Thailand-France-Singapore 2025. 130min

  • Courtesy of

    Best Friend Forever

  • Language

    Thai

    With English subtitles

Introduction

When deceased Nat returns as a vacuum cleaner, her furious in-laws are hopeful that all they need to do is unplug her. But Nat’s going nowhere. Employing highly unconventional methods, she sets out to prove herself as a ‘useful’ ghost. Both an investigation of Thailand’s complex history and a slice of pure camp, A Useful Ghost is unlike anything you’ll see this year.

Grace Barber-Plentie

Content warning

Contains scenes of nudity.

How to book

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