8/9/02
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Ghost Story
Ghost Story is a movie based on the novel of the same name by Peter Straub. It starts off with a man in a room with a woman lying face down on a bed. The man keeps asking who the woman is and when he goes to the bed and rolls her over he sees something so terrifying that he pitches backwards through a closed window and plummets to his doom. Elsewhere a group of four old men sit in a darkened room with one of them telling a scary story and frightening the others. One of the old timers is the father of the man who fell. Upon hearing the news he calls his other son and asks him to come home for the funeral. The other son does so and becomes tangled in the real ghost story that has haunted these old men for a long time and becomes less and less just a story as the movie flows along.
Ghost story is a good adaptation of Straub's novel that follows the book for the most part but where it diverges it does so well. As a horror movie this is a really good one. There are some good scares, some tension, and a really good overall feel. The locations and interiors for this film are spectacular, a complete joy to watch. The special effects seem to only get better as the film carries on culminating in a climax that is nearly surreal and totally chilling. The story is of course excellent and the script nearly as good. The acting is strong for the most part and the directing was well done. The casting was good and surprising to boot, can you imagine dance legend Fred Astaire as the star of a horror movie? Watch Ghost Story and there will be no more need to imagine it.
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