A Useful Ghost

Pee chai dai ka


Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke · Thailand, Singapore, Germany, France · 2025 · 130 min


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After Nat dies from dust pollution, her husband March discovers that her spirit has been reincarnated in a vacuum cleaner. Disturbed by the recent appearance of another ghost—a deceased factory worker whose death brought the family’s appliance plant to a standstill—March’s family rejects this unusual human–ghost relationship. To prove her good intentions, Nat offers to “clean” the factory of malicious spirits. A Useful Ghost is a fantastical comedy that blends the absurd with social critique, exploring love, memory, and the ghosts that haunt everyday life.



Fiction · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 12+
Language: Thai
Themes: Memory, labour rights, LGBTQ+



Screenplay: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Producers: Rasiguet Sookkarn, Cattleya Paosrijeroen, Soros Sukhum
Executive Producers: Kris Eiamsakulrat, Nopadol Srikieatikajohn, Chayamporn Taeratanachai, Tanat Tananivit, Kip Tiaviwat, Rachel Y. Wu, Annie Yang
Cinematographer: Pasit Tandaechanurat


Key cast: Davika Hoorne, Wisarut Himmarat, Apasirl Nitibhon, Wanlop Rungkumjad, Wisarut Homhuan

Director's Statement

I think artists in general and filmmakers in particular are ghosts’ allies. Cinema is the ideal medium to give ghosts a form. Internationally, the film amplifies Thailand’s struggles, turning local ghosts of history and inequality into universal questions of memory and resistance. — Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke