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Ghost Stories

UK 2017
produced by
Robin Gutch, Claire Jones, Peter Balm (executive), Graham Begg (executive), Will Clarke (executive), Hugo Heppell (executive), Andy Mayson (executive), Mike Runagall (executive), Barry Ryan (executive), Niall Shamma (executive), Charlotte Walls (executive) for Warp Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, Catalyst Global Media
directed by Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman
starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther, Paul Warren, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nicholas Burns, Louise Atkins, Lesley Harcourt, Amy Doyle, Deborah Wastell, Daniel Hill, Christine Dalby, Maggie McCarthy, Joe Osborne, Maria Major, Ramzan Miah, Benji Ming, Emily Carding, Leonard Byrne, Macie Allen, Ryan Oliva, Samuel Bottomley, Jake Davies, Oliver Woollford, Callum Goulden, Mike Aarons, Derren Brown, Anthony Davis, Elaine Dyson, Jill Halfpenny, Billy Sneddon
written by Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman, music by Haim Frank Ilfman

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Professor Goodman (Andy Nyman) is pretty much a professional skeptic, debunking ghost stories wherever he can find them - and he's very good at that, too! And thus it's an absolute delight for him when he's contacted by Charles Cameron (Leonard Byrne), a legendary skeptic who has always been Goodman's idol. But Cameron isn't the legend Goodman expected him to be but a frail man close to dying who sets Goodman up with three paranormal cases he himself could never solve: One's about a night watchman (Paul Whitehouse) being scared shitless in an abandoned hospital, one's about a youngster (Alex Lawther) having taken his parents' car for a spin and run over someone (or something), which haunts him to this very day, the last being about a wealthy man (Martin Freeman) who has a ghostly vision just when his wife dies of childbirth in hospital. Now rather disappointingly, none of these three stories pose any real challenge to Goodman. Sure, he cannot "disprove" them as such, but the oral account Goodman gets in all three cases is not enough proof that anything happened to begin with. Thing is, when he confronts Cameron with this, this doesn't turn out the triumph he expected it to be, instead he's confronted with his own fears - which are scarier than any ghost story ...

 

Ghost Stories for sure is a very clever little movie, as it, on both a narrative and directorial level, understands how to play with genre expectations and genre mainstays. Now basically, the set-up of the movie is nothing short of a clichée, and the three ghost stories told are a tad short on originality and while well-told lack proper pay-off - only for everything to be turned onto its head in the finale and leave the audience properly creeped out. And of course, a very fine ensemble cast doesn't hurt one bit here.

Definitely worth a look!

 

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