Ghost Stories - You may question your belief in the afterlife! (may contain spoilers)
British horror drama, based on a successful stage play.
Professor Goodman (Andy Nyman) is a psychologist who has devoted his life to exposing stage psychics. Out of the blue he receives a letter and audio cassette from his childhood TV hero who was also a celebrity supernatural sceptic. He meets his hero at his dilapidated caravan and is presented with a file containing details of three terrifying unsolved cases and instructions to solve the cases or prove the supernatural doesn't exists.
Goodman's mission is to find rational explanations for the three ghostly stories. 1/ Paul Whitehouse is a security guard in an abandoned asylum, haunted by 'nutcase's' from the past while on duty checking for intruders. 2/ Alex Lawther is a teenager on the brink of a breakdown, he is from a dysfunctional family and is involved in a car accident in the woods, and tormented by devilish creatures. 3/ Martin Freeman is a slick, wealthy former financier, who encounters a poltergeist at home. His wife dies in childbirth, the poltergeist is his stillborn baby.
There are several jump scare moments, but also some clever visual scenes, where we see a confused glimpse of an eerie apparition, but this ends up being a mop, bucket and pile of other cleaning utensils.
Of the three incidents, the first involving Paul Whitehouse is brilliant, and I was truly scared. Watch this film and you may question your belief in the afterlife!
8/10
Professor Goodman (Andy Nyman) is a psychologist who has devoted his life to exposing stage psychics. Out of the blue he receives a letter and audio cassette from his childhood TV hero who was also a celebrity supernatural sceptic. He meets his hero at his dilapidated caravan and is presented with a file containing details of three terrifying unsolved cases and instructions to solve the cases or prove the supernatural doesn't exists.
Goodman's mission is to find rational explanations for the three ghostly stories. 1/ Paul Whitehouse is a security guard in an abandoned asylum, haunted by 'nutcase's' from the past while on duty checking for intruders. 2/ Alex Lawther is a teenager on the brink of a breakdown, he is from a dysfunctional family and is involved in a car accident in the woods, and tormented by devilish creatures. 3/ Martin Freeman is a slick, wealthy former financier, who encounters a poltergeist at home. His wife dies in childbirth, the poltergeist is his stillborn baby.
There are several jump scare moments, but also some clever visual scenes, where we see a confused glimpse of an eerie apparition, but this ends up being a mop, bucket and pile of other cleaning utensils.
Of the three incidents, the first involving Paul Whitehouse is brilliant, and I was truly scared. Watch this film and you may question your belief in the afterlife!
8/10
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