← Back to Directory
Oh My Ghost! The Fierce Escape from Covid-19
Movie

Oh My Ghost! The Fierce Escape from Covid-19

2021 • Unknown

Woke Score
7
out of 10

Plot

When the hotel run by Taew is found to have a COVID-19 case, it is shut down and everyone there must remain in quarantine for 14 days. The messy and spooky happenings wages on, even the zombies rise to chase people.

Overall Series Review

The movie is a Thai supernatural comedy-horror that places a group of katoey characters at the center of a COVID-19 hotel quarantine, a murder mystery, and a zombie outbreak. The narrative is heavily reliant on the main characters' gender and sexual identity for its humor and core dynamic, making identity politics and queer theory central to the film. The gender-bending ensemble drives the plot, which actively subverts traditional masculine and feminine roles. However, the film is an indigenous production, and its focus is local, meaning it largely bypasses critiques of Western civilization and the specific vilification of 'whiteness' found in Western media. The supernatural element, featuring ghosts, zombies, and a murder to solve, acknowledges a spiritual realm and moral structure, balancing the score from being purely anti-theist, even if the treatment of spirituality is likely irreverent and comedic.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics8/10

The entire premise of the film series revolves around the lives and adventures of katoey characters, making their specific gender/sexual identity an immutable characteristic central to the plot and humor. The narrative focuses on an identity group rather than universal character merit.

Oikophobia2/10

The film is a Thai production and its critical lens, if any, is aimed at the contemporary handling of a specific health crisis (COVID-19 quarantine) and its localized chaos. The narrative does not demonize Thai ancestors, core Thai institutions, or frame external/Western cultures as morally superior.

Feminism9/10

The main protagonists are katoey (gender non-conforming males/transgender women) who lead the action and drive the plot. Their comedic personas actively subvert and deconstruct traditional masculinity and femininity, essentially replacing the core male/female dynamic with a non-complementary gender structure.

LGBTQ+10/10

Sexual and gender identity is the most important, defining trait for the main ensemble cast, who are all katoey. The narrative completely centers alternative sexualities and gender expression, making this the foundational element of the comedy and plot dynamics.

Anti-Theism4/10

The plot is a supernatural horror-comedy focused on ghosts, zombies, and a wandering spirit that needs help to rest in peace, which inherently acknowledges a spiritual or transcendent moral framework. While religious figures and spiritual practices may be used for irreverent comedy, there is no evidence of outright hostility toward religion as the root of evil.