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Ghostbirth 2

A film by Marius Jopen

Elena can’t have children. She flies to Bangkok for a fertility massage at a place where infertile women leave pregnant. She doesn’t know that thirty years ago a pregnant woman burned alive in the house, that the neighborhood calls it cursed, or that women disappear inside. She gets pregnant. The child is not hers.

About

Ghostbirth 2 is a slow-burn body horror film set in Bangkok. A German woman travels to Thailand for a fertility massage — and enters a building that is no longer a building. It is a ghost. A machine that uses living women to deliver the children of a dead woman who burned inside it thirty years ago.

The film explores the dark side of motherhood — the desperation, the societal pressure, the willingness to accept anything at any cost. Elena knows what is growing inside her. She chooses to keep it.

Practical effects. No CGI. No AI-generated imagery. Built by hand, on set, with latex and light and sweat.

The Story

Elena, a German woman who cannot have children, travels to Bangkok for a fertility massage at a studio with a reputation for making infertile women pregnant. The house burned down thirty years ago with a pregnant woman inside. It was rebuilt, but in the neighborhood everyone knows: the place is cursed, the ghost never left, women disappear. Elena knows none of this.

The treatment works. But the child she carries belongs to the woman who died in the fire.

Saul, a taxi driver who brought Elena to the studio, begins to piece together what the house really is. He tries to get her out. She refuses. After everything she has been through — the years of failure, the shame, the pressure — she is not giving up this child. Not for Saul, not for the truth, not for her own life.

Director

Marius Jopen is a Berlin-based filmmaker and creative technologist. His debut film Space Birth — a no-budget science fiction film built with 300 volunteers and a spaceship made of cardboard — screened at Cinema Oasis Bangkok, where it won an award and led to the residency where Ghostbirth originated. Three research trips to Bangkok, 140 casting sessions, and a self-funded test shoot followed. Ghostbirth 2 is his second feature film.

Voices

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