Banjong Pisanthanakun, the Thai filmmaker behind genre landmarks Shutter and Pee Mak, is returning to the director’s chair for Inherit, a horror feature produced by GDH 559, Thailand’s most creatively versatile and commercially consistent studio. Korean sales outfit Barunson E&A, the production company behind Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite, has boarded international sales on the project.
Banjong has long been regarded as one of Southeast Asia‘s premier genre directors. His 2004 debut Shutter became a defining title in the Thai horror wave of the 2000s, while the comedy-horror Pee Mak (2013) became Thailand’s highest-grossing film of all time and the first Thai title to surpass ten million domestic admissions. His most recent release The Medium (2021), a found-footage supernatural thriller co-produced with Korea’s Showbox, was well received by critics, but saw its theatrical release hampered by the pandemic. Inherit marks his first time behind the camera in five years.
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