THE PROMISE

(directed by Sophon Sakdaphisit)

Who’s in it?

Numthip Jongrachatawiboon, Apichaya Thongkham.

What’s it about?

After their parents go bankrupt due to the 1997 financial crash, two best friends, Boum and Ib, decide to commit suicide on the unfinished condo tower their parents invested in. Ib goes through with it. Boum doesn’t. Now a mother, Boum discovers that her daughter’s sleepwalking episodes reminds her a lot of her Ib, and she has the sinking feeling that Ib is haunting her for not keeping her promise to never leave Ib’s side.

Why watch it?

The Sathorn Unique Tower, the famous abandoned building here in Bangkok, is already creepy enough, so this just raises the fear factor and spookiness surrounding that building.