Thai horror has given us some brilliant films about spirits, curses and black magic, and The Confession of Shaman is heading straight into that territory with a story about a man who decides that the normal justice system isn’t going to give him what he wants, so he finds someone who can offer a rather more frightening alternative.
The film is based on a popular story from The Ghost Radio, which immediately makes me curious because those kinds of supernatural stories have a built-in audience in Thailand.
Tor Wants Justice – Just Not the Legal Kind
The main character is Tor, a man who becomes consumed by anger after the people responsible for hurting him escape punishment, who eventually reaches the point where he stops believing that the law is capable of giving him the justice he wants, which leads him towards Thian, a powerful shaman who knows about black magic and forbidden rituals.
Thian teaches Tor about supernatural practices and the ability to control spirits, giving him access to powers that he believes can finally put things right, and at first, it probably seems like a simple deal to Tor – he has been failed by the system, so he’ll find another way to punish the people responsible.
Of course, this is a horror film though, so there is absolutely no chance that this is going to work out nicely for him.
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The Ghost Radio Connection
The film is based on a popular horror story from The Ghost Radio, which has become well known in Thailand for supernatural stories and experiences shared with listeners, so that connection is actually quit einteresting, as there is a big difference between inventing a supernatural story specifically for a movie and taking something that people have already been listening to and talking about, then expanding it into a feature.
It also fits the way Thai horror often works – stories about spirits, shamans, curses and supernatural punishment are deeply familiar within Thai culture, so a film like this doesn’t need to spend its entire runtime explaining why people might believe in these things.
Instead, it can get on with showing what happens when someone decides to actually use those beliefs to solve a problem, as Tor isn’t an innocent character who happens to get caught up in a supernatural nightmare, as he actively wants the power, where he thinks black magic will give him control over his life and allow him to punish people who escaped justice.
Cast and Production
The Confession of Shaman, originally titled คำสารภาพของหมอผี (Kham Sarapap Khong Mor Phi), is directed by Nattanont Cholumpi and is based on the story from The Ghost Radio – the cast includes Teeradetch Metawarayut, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Denise Jelilcha Kapaun, BamBam, Amarin Nitipon, Ranya Siyanon and Wayne Falconer.
The film is produced by M Studio and MI Group and is scheduled to release in Thailand on August 12, 2026, with a reported runtime of around 135 minutes, and that is yet again quite a long runtime for a supernatural horror film, so I am always weary with that.
Revenge Is What Starts Everything
The most interesting aspect about the story though is that the supernatural horror isn’t really the original problem here – Tor’s anger is – he doesn’t start learning black magic because he’s fascinated by the occult, he wants revenge because he believes the normal system has failed him, and the shaman offers him something that seems much more immediate.
That gives the film a pretty obvious moral problem without needing to spell everything out, but there’s obviously a massive difference between revenge and justice, particularly when the method involves summoning or controlling supernatural forces.
The Confession of Shaman is arrived in Thailand on August 12, and if you’re into Thai horror involving black magic, shamans, spirits and people making catastrophically bad decisions, this is definitely one I’d have on the watchlist.
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