My Boo – Movie Review | Netflix (3/5)

MY BOO on Netflix is a new horror-comedy from Thailand (org. title: Anong). Despite being a bit too long, it’s worth your time. The special effects are both practical and CGI but tend to work surprisingly well. Read our full My Boo movie review here!

MY BOO is a new Netflix horror-comedy with a sweet story that becomes a love story. Ultimately, this genre-hybrid from Thailand (org. title: Anong) becomes a movie full of heart.

Maybe I’m just very pleasantly surprised because I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Still, I have to also point out that at just over two hours, it really is longer than it should be. The story can defend this rather long runtime, but it would’ve been stronger with a tighter pace.

Continue reading our My Boo movie review below. Find it on Netflix now.

A good guy at heart

When My Boo first begins, it’s obvious that Joe (Sutthirak Subvijitra) is a bit of a mess. He lives to work on his computer game, which is horror-based but is a mess at everything that is real life, which means his offline life.

Also, he has a recurring nightmare that he seems to be working at incorporating into his game. However, he still hasn’t managed to quite get a grasp of it.

Then our gamer inherits a house (well, sort of, you’ll see in the movie) and is quick to come up with a moneymaking scheme. You see, the house is haunted and people love a good scare, so why not make a haunted house business?!

That’s what Joe does as he works with the ghosts to make this the best haunted house ever. Of course, with the promise that he will help the ghosts cross over afterward. He just needs to clear a debt first.

All is going rather well, but complications do arise. The biggest one is that he falls in love with one of the ghosts. And the feeling is mutual.

A good use of special effects

For me, Asian horror comedies in particular can be victims of bad special effects. Either the kind of CGI that is anything but scary or just an overly fondness of more wacky audio and visual elements.

For My Boo, there are a few moments where it might go a bit wacky, but never too much. Well, not too much for my liking anyway, and that’s all I can really comment on here.

The special effects are both practical (with one ghost constantly fiddling with her intestines hanging out her gut) while another is of the computer-aided variety. I mean, his head has been chopped off and tends to land somewhere other than where his body is.

You can do much with practical effects, but that particular visual does require a bit of CGI. Overall, the special effects – which I feared would get in the way of me enjoying the movie – worked to the advantage of the storytelling.

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The director of My Boo (org. title: Anong) is Komgrit Triwimol, who also directed several episodes of the Netflix genre series Girl from Nowhere (2018-2021).

The screenplay comes from screenwriter Kirati Kumsat, and if you’re a fan of Thai series, you may know this writer’s work from Never Let Me Go (2022-2023) or Midnight Museum (2023).

As mentioned initially, I did find this horror-comedy too long. And yet, I also found myself enjoying it a lot more than I expected. Plus, the ending of My Boo is actually really good. Not often do you get to see where your main protagonist ends up many decades into the future, but here you do.

With this movie, we get to see what happens after the main story has ended. I liked that. A lot!

My Boo was released on Netflix on November 10, 2024.

Details

Director: Komgrit Triwimol
Writer: Kirati Kumsat
Cast: Sutthirak Subvijitra, Maylada Susri, Timethai Plangsilp, Chaleumpol Tikumpornteerawong, Tatchaya Supatanyasatit, Punyawee Jungcharoen, Narttida Pitakwararat, Arunpong Narapan, Kittiphong Boonprakhom, Puang Kaewprasert, Adisorn Tresirikasem, Torphong Kul-on, Thammarat Sumethsupachok, Jarupus Pattamasiri, Trin Ruangkitrattanakul