Sahamongkol Film International · Thailand · 2024
Riderไรเดอร์
A late-night delivery run, a girl who shouldn't be there, and three friends who go looking anyway.
A horror-comedy from Sahamongkol, with Freen Sarocha as Pie opposite Mario Maurer — her first film outside the GL world, and a genre most people didn't expect from her.
- Released12 Dec 2024
- Runtime1 hr 45 min
- Freen asPie
- Thai box officeNo. 6 opening
The premise
Somebody has to go find her
Nut is a delivery rider. On an ordinary run he meets Pie — by chance, the way these things go — and something starts between them before either of them has decided anything. Then she disappears.
Nut and two rider friends, Kai and Yod, go looking. What they find is not a missing-person story. It's a ghost story, and it turns out Pie needs something from them that nobody living can give her.
The film moves between real scares and genuine comedy, with the three riders holding the middle: friendship played for laughs until it isn't. Underneath the jokes is a story about family, and about what a mother will do for a child.
Her role
Freen as Pie
Pie is the reason the film works. She has to be warm enough that Nut falls for her in a handful of scenes, and strange enough that the audience knows something is off long before he does — and Freen plays both at once rather than switching between them.
It also sits apart in her filmography. Before Rider she was known almost entirely for GL romance and drama; here she's opposite Mario Maurer, one of Thailand's most established leading men, in a mainstream commercial horror-comedy from a major studio. Reviews consistently singled out her presence and the chemistry between the two of them.
In cinemas
Release & reception
Thai box office
No. 6Placed sixth on the Thai box office chart for the 19–22 December 2024 weekend
Indonesia
29 JanReleased into Indonesian cinemas through Rapi Films in January 2025
MyDramaList
7.2Audience score on MyDramaList
IMDb
6.2Audience score on IMDb
What audiences said
Response to Rider has been warm and consistent on the same three points: the chemistry between Freen and Mario Maurer, the balance the film strikes between real scares and real jokes, and how hard the final act goes. Kai and Yod get singled out repeatedly as the comic engine — the kind of friends who never let a scene go quiet and turn dependable exactly when it counts.
Reviews mentioning Freen return to the same thing: a standout screen presence in a register nobody had seen from her before.
Who made it
Cast & crew
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Kungfu Nitivat Cholvanichsiri
- Production
- Sahamongkol Film International
- Co-production
- Happy Man Studio
- Distribution
- Sahamongkol Film International · Rapi Films in Indonesia
- Country
- Thailand
- Language
- Thai
Watch
Clips & behind the scenes
Freen spent a day actually doing the job for the promo campaign — and the film's Loy Krathong greeting is the closest thing to a mood board for the whole production.
Quick answers
Rider, in short
What is Rider about?
A delivery rider named Nut meets a woman called Pie by chance. When she vanishes, he and two rider friends go looking for her — and find that what happened to her isn't something the living can fix on their own.
Who does Freen Sarocha play in Rider?
She plays Pie, the woman Nut meets and then loses. It's her first horror-comedy and her first feature without Becky Armstrong.
Who else stars in Rider?
Mario Maurer leads as Nut, with Marut Chuenchomboon as Kai and Phuwanet Seechomphu as Yod. Krit Jeerapattananuwong plays Golf, alongside Duangjai Hiransri, Amata Piyavanich and Supachai Girdsuwan.
Where to watch Rider?
RIDER was released on 12 December 2024 in Thai cinemas, followed by an Indonesian release on 29 January 2025.There is no online stream of this film for interntional fans - as of yet.
How long is Rider?
1 hour and 45 minutes, rated 15+.
Who directed Rider?
Kungfu Nitivat Cholvanichsiri, for Sahamongkol Film International with Happy Man Studio.
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