Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke seeks to diversify gay cinema. His film "A Useful Ghost" features politics alongside comedic elements. The story includes a ghost helping to address past ...
A ghost-possessed vacuum cleaner might sound like standard horror fare, but in the hands of Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, it transforms into a sly commentary on pollution, power dynamics, ...
Writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's comedy-drama premiered in Cannes' Critics' Week strand. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic It starts off farcically with household and industrial ...
A slapdash and silly Netflix Original horror movie from Thailand, Pawan Purijitpanya’s “Ghost Lab” is hardly poised to become an unexpected cult hit just because it’s available to watch in so many ...
Dir/scr: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. Thailand/France/Singapore/Germany. 2025. 130 mins. If Yorgos Lanthimos relocated to Thailand his next film might look something ...
A judgmental family stares at a haunted vacuum cleaner in "A Useful Ghost." Credit: Best Friend Forever / TIFF Yes, in A Useful Ghost, there's a make-out scene between a man and a vacuum cleaner.
If 2005 rom-com Just Like Heaven hinged on Mark Ruffalo helping the ghost of Reese Witherspoon jolt her body to life and find her one true love, Thai comedy The Red Envelope is about a man helping a ...
EXCLUSIVE: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Thai Oscar submission A Useful Ghost is among a full complement of this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week competition selections that will screen at the 23rd Morelia ...
Review: Part horror movie and part soap opera, "Ghost Lab" is a clunky but amusing vision of death, as unpredictable as grief itself. A slapdash and silly Netflix Original horror movie from Thailand, ...