A USEFUL GHOST

Date: Friday October 17, 2025 | Doors Open: 6:30 pm
Screening Starts: 7 pm | Location: Araluen Arts Centre Theatre

A USEFUL GHOST

Director: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | Year: 2025 | Rating: Unclassified 18+ | Runtime: 130 mins Country: Thailand | Genre: Comedy, Fantasy | Language: Thai with English subtitles

From ambitious newcomer Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke comes a genre-smashing amalgamation of fantasy, horror, romance, comedy, art house and everything in between.

After dying of dust poisoning, Nat’s (Davika Hoorne) ghost possesses a vacuum cleaner and tries to rekindle her relationship with her grief-stricken husband, March (Wisarut Himmarat). But March’s family never liked Nat in life—let alone as a household appliance. To win them over, she takes on the restless spirits haunting her their factory’s machines. In this stylish debut, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke delivers a phantasmagorical, genre-bending tale of love, loss, and working-class resistance.

Alongside this is the tale of a repair guy (Wanlop Rungkumjud) who shows up at the door of a self-declared “Academic Ladyboy” (Wisarut Homhuan) to fix another possessed vacuum. The intertwining stories and unimaginable turn of events reveal complex layers and deeper context beneath the setting dust. Don’t let the breathtaking images fool you. There is more than what meets the eye.

Contains supernatural themes and surreal violence.

Doors Open: 6:30 pm | Screening Starts: 7:00 pm