Items10The creator’s order
  1. 1Nang Nak (1999)Nang Nak (1999) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 23, 1999The place to start, because every film after it is in conversation with this one. Nonzee Nimibutr retells the legend of Mae Nak of Phra Khanong, the wife who waits for her soldier husband and will not let death end the marriage, and plays it as a tragedy first and a ghost story second. It was the…0
  2. 2Shutter (2004)Shutter (2004) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 9, 2004The film that put Thai horror on the world map. Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom build everything around one idea, a photographer finding smudges and figures in his prints after a hit-and-run, and they wring dread out of the darkroom like few films before or since. Its reputation abroad…0
  3. 3The Unseeable (2006)The Unseeable (2006) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 2, 2006The slow-burn choice. Wisit Sasanatieng's third feature is an old-fashioned haunted-house story: a young pregnant woman searching for her missing husband takes shelter in a widow's mansion in 1930s Siam, and the household is not what it seems. The drab, gray-green look and creaking period house…0
  4. 4Alone (2007)Alone (2007) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 29, 2007The Shutter directors' second ghost story turns inward. Pim is the survivor of a pair of conjoined twins, and when she returns to Thailand from South Korea her separated sister Ploy seems to have come too. Marsha Wattanapanich plays both, and the film rests on her. It is a sister ghost rather than…0
  5. 54bia (2008)4bia (2008) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 24, 2008A sampler of four Thai directors in one sitting, and a good way to find out which style of Thai horror suits you. A lonely woman trapped with her phone, a bullied boy and black magic, a camping trip and a stewardess haunted on a night flight each get their own short. Banjong Pisanthanakun's…0
  6. 6Pee Mak (2013)Pee Mak (2013) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 28, 2013The one comedy on the list, and the exception that proves the rule. Banjong Pisanthanakun retells the Mae Nak legend from the other side: Mak comes home from war with four army friends who slowly suspect that his devoted wife and newborn child are no longer among the living. It became Thailand's…0
  7. 7The Promise (2017)The Promise (2017) 5.9/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 7, 2017A ghost story with a real economic wound at its core. Sophon Sakdaphisit, who co-wrote Shutter and Alone, sets it in Bangkok after the 1997 Asian financial crisis: two schoolgirls make a suicide pact, only one keeps it, and twenty years later the debt comes due. The film was shot in an abandoned,…0
  8. 8Inhuman Kiss (2019)Inhuman Kiss (2019) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 14, 2019The best introduction to the krasue, the Southeast Asian ghost who lives as an ordinary woman by day while at night her head detaches and floats off in search of flesh and blood. Sitisiri Mongkolsiri puts that monster inside a tender village romance, with a young woman who does not know what she…0
  9. 9The Medium (2021)The Medium (2021) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 14, 2021The Thai-Korean co-production that sent horror fans looking up Isan shamanism. Banjong Pisanthanakun directs and The Wailing's Na Hong-jin produces a mock documentary about a village medium in northeastern Thailand who serves as host to a local deity, Ba Yan, until a young woman in her family…0
  10. 10Death Whisperer (2023)Death Whisperer (2023) 5.9/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 25, 2023The modern blockbuster. Taweewat Wantha adapts Krittanont's novel, known in English as A Distant Voice Wails Madly, into a rural possession story: a bloodthirsty spirit takes hold of a young girl in a remote village and her brother sets out to save the family. Its first release earned over 500…0