Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s zany romantic drama A Useful Ghost has won the top prize at Cannes Critics’ Week. The feature, which is the first Thai film to play in the parallel section for a number of ...

Thai writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s feature debut centers on a married couple where the wife dies of a respiratory illness and returns to a grieving husband as a vacuum cleaner.

The Thai film Pee Chai Dai Ka (A Useful Ghost) has won the Grand Prix at Critics' Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Thai film to ever win the prize.

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, ...

The Thai film A Useful Ghost recently won the Grand Prize at the Critics' Week section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. CNA ...

In "A Useful Ghost", Davika "Mai" Hoorne -- a model and actor with 18 million followers on Instagram -- plays a woman who returns from the dead and haunts a vacuum cleaner to comfort her husband.

In “A Useful Ghost”, Davika “Mai” Hoorne — a model and actor with 18 million followers on Instagram — returns from the dead and haunts a vacuum cleaner to comfort her husband.

There were celebrations after Thailand legalised same-sex marriage in January Thai actress Davika Hoorne stars as a ghost who haunts a vacuum cleaner Film director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke ...