Cemetery of Splendor (2015)

Cemetery of Splendor (2015) poster

Critical favourite that he has become, I have to confess to not being a cheerleader for Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His films have some incredibly eerie, haunted moments but these sit alongside banal, uneventful happenings that never seem to intersect in anything resembling a plot

Mekong Hotel (2012)

Mekong Hotel (2012) poster

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a festival favourite and one genre director whose work is least categorised as such. As with any of Weerasethakul’s films, this has some intensely haunted moments but is severely lacking in plot or any kind of dramatic inertia

Memoria (2021)

Memoria (2021) poster

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a darling of the arthouse and makes bafflingly cryptic films with a very haunted mood. This features Tilda Swinton in search of a series of mysterious sounds

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) poster

Winner of this year Cannes Palme d’Or, this is a Thai ghost story .where director Apichatpong Weerasethaku creates an intensely haunted atmosphere at times, although the film itself remains vague and elusive in terms of plot