The Djinn’s Curse 2, also known as ของแขก 2 (Khong Khaek 2), takes the supernatural horror of the first film and heads into the forests around Mount Budo in southern Thailand, where a young woman disappears for two nights and comes back very, very wrong.
This is the sort of Thai horror where the supernatural side is tied closely to local spiritual beliefs, rather than simply sticking a generic demon into the story, and the film apparently gets into some pretty nasty territory once husband Anas realises that whatever has happened to his wife Diana is connected to the world of the jinn.
And the setup here is actually quite brutal.
Diana Comes Back From the Forest
Diana has only recently married Anas when she disappears into the forest around Budo Mountain, and when she eventually returns, she isn’t the same person – her behaviour becomes increasingly violent and unpredictable, with the situation getting so bad that her brother Baboding has to intervene.
Things eventually reach the point where Anas is forced to shoot his own wife in an attempt to stop what is happening, which is a pretty grim starting point for a horror film, but The Djinn’s Curse 2 doesn’t stop there – Anas can’t accept that Diana is gone and becomes convinced that her soul is trapped in the realm of the jinn, and he starts looking for a way to bring her back, with his sister Ya becoming involved in the search.
The film is particularly interested in the idea that something can remain inside a person even after their true soul has gone somewhere else – promotional material describes the supernatural threat in terms of jinn and qareen, with Diana’s altered behaviour becoming part of a much bigger spiritual problem. – the story therefore isn’t simply about possession in the usual Western horror sense, it is drawing on Islamic supernatural beliefs and the idea of another realm inhabited by jinn.
Mim Rattanawadee Is Back in Horror
The main cast is led by Yotsawat Tawapee as Anas and Mim Rattawadee Wongthong as Diana, with Sutida Burtig as Ya, Sonthaya Chitmanee as Alang, Peeyarat Jatupo as Lin, Hakim Donlapavijit as Chat, Adull Borsu as Mading and Nathapohn Kosklpothisup as the Djinn/HantuPari.
Mim is particularly worth mentioning because she’s becoming a familiar face in Thai horror. amd here, she’s playing a character here who has to go through a pretty dramatic transformation from newlywed to someone at the centre of the supernatural nightmare, which is quite different from simply having the actress turn up and spend the film looking terrified.
Kriangkrai Monwichit returns as director, and the film is produced through Monwichit Entertainment and M Studio.
More Than a Simple Possession Story
One thing I like about the premise is that the film doesn’t appear to treat Diana’s condition as something that can simply be fixed by finding the right person to perform an exorcism, as Anas has already made the worst possible decision from a horror-film perspective: he wants to go after the thing that took Diana from him, which does give the story an emotional reason for all the supernatural nonsense that follows.
He’s grieving, he’s guilty, and he desperately wants to believe Diana can somehow be recovered, so when the opportunity to enter the world of the jinn appears, he’s willing to take it – the danger comes from the fact that the supernatural world isn’t operating according to his rules.
A Thai Horror With a Southern Setting
The film is set around Mount Budo, where the forest is remote, the community is small and the supernatural beliefs are closely connected to the people living there – the story also has a connection to the southern Thai setting of the first The Djinn’s Curse, which was released in 2023.
The sequel isn’t simply repeating the original story, though, and instead uses a new family and a new supernatural situation to expand the world around its jinn mythology, and the film is being made by Monwichit Entertainment together with M Studio, keeping the series under the same production umbrella while giving the sequel a new story and characters.
Trailer
The Film Has a Darker Emotional Angle
What if loving somebody makes you willing to follow them into something you absolutely should leave alone?
Quite the question, and here, Anas isn’t chasing the supernatural because he wants power or because he’s curious about ghosts, he’s doing it because he can’t accept losing Diana, which make his decisions more understandable, but obviously it doesn’t make them any safer – the story can therefore use the jinn mythology to explore grief and obsession without needing to turn Anas into a completely unsympathetic character.
And I think that’s where the film has the potential to work best.
The supernatural stuff can be horrible enough on its own, but there is something much darker and more emotional about watching someone deliberately walk deeper into the nightmare because they believe there is still a chance to save the person they love.
Release
The Djinn’s Curse 2 was released in Thailand on 25 June 2026, with a runtime of approximately 97 minutes and a 15 classification.
With its Mount Budo setting, jinn mythology and particularly grim central relationship, The Djinn’s Curse 2 looks like a sequel that is much more interested in expanding its supernatural world than simply doing the same possession story again.
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