A Useful Ghost

Name: A Useful Ghost
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Released: January 16, 2026
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 85

2026

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Cineverse | Release Date: January 16, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing a vacuum cleaner.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 130 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Jan 15, 2026

This dazzling first feature from the Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke uses the frame of a sad-sweet sex comedy to weave together political allegory, supernatural mystery and more than one tender love story. And he does this with such skill and bravado that you never see the seams. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

May 29, 2025

For all its playfulness, there’s an intellectual heft to A Useful Ghost that exerts its own gravity. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Feb 5, 2026

Filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s snaky, surprising fable starts with a sneeze and explodes into a saga about bureaucracy, modernization and moral corruption. It’s electrifying. Read full review

Elizabeth Kerr

May 29, 2025

Ratchapoom’s feature debut is a visually ambitious and thematically layered big swing that’s as polarising as it is creative. Read full review

Catherine Bray

May 29, 2025

A Useful Ghost is an entertaining and moving – if also somewhat sprawling – fable of love and loss that isn’t quite like anything you’ve seen before. Read full review

Chase Hutchinson

May 29, 2025

Every detail, be they the mirthful jokes or the melancholic meditations it taps into, comes together to create a vision that’s existentially resonant. It proves Boonbunchachoke is not just an exciting new voice who pays respect to the ghosts of cinema’s past, but one who finds distinct beauty as he brings them all to joyous life. Read full review

William Repass

Jan 20, 2026

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s defense of historical memory couldn’t be more timely. Read full review

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