EXCLUSIVE: Horror thriller Inherit from Thai hitmaker Banjong Pisanthanakun has landed a raft of sales across Asia and beyond ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
The deals, jointly handled by South Korea’s Barunson E&A and leading Thai studio GDH559, include Japan (Synca), Singapore (Golden Village), Taiwan (Vie Vision), Indonesia (PT Falcon), Philippines (Pioneer Films), Vietnam (Mockingbird Pictures) and Laos (Napha Media) as well as Malaysia, Brunei and Myanmar (Purple Plan).
K-Movie Entertainment has taken rights for South Korea, Australia and New Zealand while Impacto Cine has acquired the film for Latin America and Media4fun has secured rights for Poland.
GDH559 handles Asia sales while Barunson E&A, the South Korean studio known for producing Oscar-winner Parasite, handles non-Asia sales, including North America, Europe, the Middle East and airlines.
The film will debut in the Centrepiece section of Toronto on September 14 before playing Busan International Film Festival. GDH559 will release locally in Thai cinemas on November 19.
The film stars Davika Hoorne, last seen in Cannes Critics’ Week 2025 award-winner A Useful Ghost, as an 80-year-old grandmother who returns to her family looking as young and beautiful as when she disappeared 50 years prior. Possessed by an ancient demon, she is seeking a new host, with teenage granddaughter Oui firmly in her sights.
The highly anticipated feature is the first film in four years from director Banjong, known for blockbuster titles such as Shutter and The Medium, and reunites him with Hoorne for the first time since 2013’s Pee Mak, which remains Thailand’s highest-grossing local film of all time.
Banjong also wrote the screenplay with Thamsatid Charoenrittichai and Chantavit Dhanasevi, based on seminal 1991 Thai horror novel Tayard Asoon.
Barunson E&A came on board to handle sales ahead of Cannes earlier this year and marks its first collaboration with Banjong. GDH559 is widely regarded as Thailand’s most successful film studio thanks to hits such as How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies and Human Resource, which premiered at Venice last year.
It adds to a growing slate of Asian genre titles for Barunson E&A, which also includes Indonesian horror Satan’s Slaves: Origin from Joko Anwar, which is set to be launched at TIFF: The Market in Toronto this week; Indonesian zombie-apocalypse feature Zona Merah: Dead City; and Korean occult mystery Stoneborn, from the team behind horror blockbuster Exhuma.
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