

A Useful Ghost
Love sucks.
Worried about her husband being allergic to dust, Nat, a recently-dead woman, returns as a ghost possessing a vacuum cleaner to clean the house.
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6.5/10
50 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $2.6K
- Language
- English
- dark comedy
- mysterious
- political history
- queer
- ladyboy
- mischievous
- playful
- thailand protest
- queer coded
- hilarious
- inflammatory
- powerful
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Behind the camera
Director
Writers
Music
Produced in
Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany
Where to watch
Availability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereFantastic Fest20 Sept 2025
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival19 Oct 2025
- PremierePalm Springs International Film Festival2 Jan 2026
- Theatrical (limited)16 Jan 2026
United KingdomGB
- Digital / OTTMubi24 Jul 2026
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival18 Aug 2025
- PremiereDarwin International Film Festival13 Sept 2025
- PremiereSXSW Sydney17 Oct 2025
- PremiereAdelaide Film Festival19 Oct 2025
- PremiereBrisbane International Film Festival29 Nov 2025
- PremiereMardi Gras Film Festival24 Feb 2026
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival 4 Sept 2025
- PremiereVancouver International Film Festival2 Oct 2025
- PremiereInternational Film Festival of Ottawa13 Mar 2026
AustriaAT
- PremiereVienna International Film Festival20 Oct 2025
- Theatrical5 Jun 2026
BelgiumBE
- PremiereOffscreen Festival29 Mar 2026
BrazilBR
- PremiereRio de Janeiro International Film Festival2 Oct 2025
- Theatrical168 Jan 2026
FranceFR
- Premiere Cannes Critics' Week17 May 2025
- Theatrical27 Aug 2025
- TVCiné+ Festival4 Nov 2026
GermanyDE
- PremiereFilmfest Hamburg27 Sept 2025
- Theatrical1626 Mar 2026
- Premiere Pornfilmfestival Berlin20 Oct 2026
GreeceGR
- PremiereAthens International Film Festival8 Oct 2025
- Theatrical16 Apr 2026
Hong KongHK
- PremiereIIIHong Kong Asian Film Festival7 Nov 2025
IndonesiaID
- Premiere21+Jakarta World Cinema 28 Sept 2025
- Premiere21+Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival3 Dec 2025
- Theatrical (limited)Special Screening13 Feb 2026
- Digital / OTT17+KlikFilm17 Feb 2026
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A Useful Ghost was released on 27 August 2025.
Audience reviews
1- B8/10
Brent Marchant
10/30/2025
Many of us have probably heard of the notion of “the ghost in the machine.” And now director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature brings entirely new meaning to that concept – literally ‒ in this impressive, offbeat comedy-drama-fantasy. The film tells the unusual story of March (Wisarut Himmarat), the widowed young son of Suman (Apasiri Nitibhon), the cold, stone-faced, inflexible owner of a vacuum cleaner fac…
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