Delusion puts a sick father on trial in a Mekong town
Netflix's Thai original Delusion lands Thursday, Sept. 24. A Chiang Khan teacher tries to prove her father has dementia after the town decides he is a Phii Pong.
Mina Park
A child goes missing in Chiang Khan, the Mekong town Thai travelers treat as a slow weekend. The story that comes back with him is older than the boy.
Delusion (ภาพลวงตาย) lands on Netflix Thursday, September 24. The rumor is Phii Pong, an Isan spirit people reach for when a neighbor starts acting wrong and the town needs a name.
Suspicion settles on Narong. Dementia has already made him hard to follow. Now it makes him easy to blame.
His daughter Wan teaches at the provincial high school. Natapohn "Taew" Phornprapha, who became a Channel 3 face on the snake-spirit lakorn Nakee, plays her as someone trying to prove her father needs care while the street decides he is possessed.
She has talked about the part sitting close: building a life while a parent slips.
Jespipat Tilapornputt comes in from Bangkok as Pete, a detective who only trusts a file. He was the surgeon in 4Minutes.
Here he is the outsider who thinks evidence will settle a town that already has a ghost story.
Chayan Laoyodtrakool directs. He did a haunted-family hour on Netflix's Terror Tuesday: Extreme. Chiang Khan gives him a bigger room for the same fear: the people you live with stop being the people you know.
Our read: press play for Wan. The Phii Pong talk is how a river town explains a man who no longer tracks. The scare is whether she can keep him a person long enough for anyone to listen.
It lands Thursday at 2 p.m. in Thailand, 3 a.m. in New York. If you are not staying up, it will be there with coffee.
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