Ghost Story
by John Irvin
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Actor: Craig Wasson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn DouglasDirector: John Irvin
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Ghost Story
Movie Review: A rotten corpse of a movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I never read the book so I can't compare, but the movie as it stands is so bad it will traumatize you more than waking up with a rotten corpse ever could. Patricia Neal is wasted in a few stock "concerned wife' cameos, Houseman is almost wasted, the other three are just there to fill out the chowder society, even the much lauded Alice Krige doesn't sell me on the idea of her being a vengeful ghost. And why did she wait until her killers where more dead than alive to get revenge, why not just show up at Chowder Society story time and scare them to death? The story rips the constant snowstorm from The Shining, but unlike it the storm in GH doesn't seem to prevent anyone from going wherever they want and it never affects the outcome. What's with the escapee and the kid, beyond a chance for some over acting? All that said the real problem with this movie is the plot is given away in the opening moments and the rest of the 100 + minutes is taken up in dreary back story and waiting for the other shoe to drop which it finally does in the most hackly predictable way.
Summary of Ghost Story
Elderly men telling ghost stories are haunted by a girl they accidentally drowned 50 years before. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/07/2004 Starring: Melvyn Douglas Alice Krige Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R Director: John IrvinUpon its release in 1981, John Irvin's version of Peter Straub's bestselling horror novel was deemed one of the worst adaptations that the genre had ever produced. Now it's available on DVD, and for the first time in widescreen presentation, and not much has changed. It's still a nearly unwatchable dud. Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. play old friends, members of the self-created Chowder Society, who get together and tell ghost tales. The scariest story of all, however, is the one they never speak to each other. Fifty years ago, the four men accidentally killed a young woman, and now she's back (with much less meat on her bones) and seeking vengeance. Sound chilling? Well, in Straub's hands it was, and the novel remains the author's finest achievement. Irvin, however, distills Staub's rich characterizations, gradual tension, and creepy atmosphere, and replaces them with aging golden oldies (only Houseman appears to be having any fun) hamming it up and hokey special-effect shots of a rotting corpse. The film moves about as quickly as its ancient cast could during a relay race. The whole thing has arthritis. --Dave McCoy
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