Haunted Universities 4 goes back to one of Thai horror’s most reliable ideas – university ghost stories – but this time the franchise spreads its four stories across four different regions of Thailand, turning local campus legends into a 128-minute anthology with four directors and eight young stars.
Four Universities, Four Very Different Nightmares
Haunted Universities 4 splits itself into four separate segments: The White Bridge, The Concubine Villa, D-Day Night and Pink Room.
The White Bridge comes from Khon Kaen University, while The Concubine Villa is based around a legend from Bankok University. D-Day Night takes its inspiration from Prince of Songkla University, with Pink Room coming from Chiang Mai University.
That gives the anthology a nice advantage because the four stories aren’t simply different versions of the same haunted dorm room- one involves a bridge with a particularly nasty warning attached to it, another centres on an old Thai house where ghosts can apparently be seen from outside, while D-Day Night and Pink Room bring their own campus legends into the mix. Sahamongkol describes the four stories as legends from four regions, passed down from generation to generation.
And yes, there are eight students at the centre of the whole thing, with the usual horror question hanging over them – who actually makes it out?
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Cast & Production
Haunted Universities 4, or เทอม 4, comes from Sahamongkol Film International and is the fourth entry in the wider Haunted Universities franchise, where the studio specifically positioned this as another chapter in its established “Term Horror” universe, rather than a standalone anthology with no connection to the earlier films – the film was released in Thai cinemas on 28 May 2026.
Putipong Saisikaew, Salinee Khemcharas, Thamuya Thasananukulkij and Chakorn Chaiprecha each take responsibility for one of the stories, and the directors were also coming from different previous work, including short films and series, which makes the anthology more interesting than simply handing the whole thing to one filmmaker.
The eight main stars are Jirayu La-ongmanee, Violette Wautier, Jorin Khumpiraphan, Prapamonton Eiamchan, Thapana Chongkolrattanaporn, Kunjiranut Woraraksa, Puntita Boonchuan and Thitinan Rattanathitinan, and the runtime is 128 minutes, so despite being an anthology, this isn’t some collection of five-minute shorts thrown together at the last minute, so each story gets enough room to establish its characters and its particular legend.
Four Directors Means Four Different Flavours
This is probably where Haunted Universities 4 has the most potential.
Anthologies can be frustrating when one segment is clearly stronger than everything around it, but four different directors also mean the film isn’t locked into one visual style for the entire runtime, as the filmmakers have their own approaches, and that should help the four university legends feel like separate stories rather than chapters of one long movie.
There’s also a deliberate mix of established and newer talent behind the camera, and Sahamongkol promoted the four filmmakers as directors to watch, while Thai coverage highlighted previous work from several of them, including the short film Suits and the mini-series I Stories.
And the cast isn’t just a collection of unknown horror actors either – Jirayu La-ongmanee and Violette Wautier headline The White Bridge, while the other segments feature performers including Jorin Khumpiraphan of 4EVE and Thapana “Tad” Chongkolrattanaporn of ATLAS.
These Aren’t Just Generic Campus Ghost Stories
This is the bit I like most about the concept- Thai universities already have their own legends, rumours and supposedly haunted locations, and Haunted Universities 4 is deliberately mining those stories rather than inventing one generic “students see ghost” premise.
A Thai film site described university ghost stories as something of a form of “soft power” for individual campuses – stories associated with particular buildings, locations and traditions that students continue passing on.
That makes the four-region structure more than just a marketing gimmick as well, because The White Bridge, The Concubine Villa, D-Day Night and Pink Room are tied to specific universities, so the anthology is effectively taking four pieces of campus folklore and giving them cinematic horror makeovers.
There’s also a fun bit of real-world horror attached to the production, as during filming of Pink Room, actress Jorin Khumpiraphan reportedly heard a voice from the sound team telling her to be quiet even though everyone around her was silent, and a crew member later told her that they had heard the unexplained voice before as well.
Whether you believe any of that is another question, obviously.
But if you’ve already worked your way through the earlier Haunted Universities movies, this is pretty much an obvious next stop, but even newcomers have a fairly easy entry point because the four stories are separate.
It also looks like a good choice if you prefer your Thai horror with a mixture of ghost stories, student drama and lighter moments, because the franchise has never been interested in being relentlessly miserable.
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