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Two "ghost hunters" are hired to spend three nights in a vast
estate right in the middle of nowhere where a series of gruesome deaths
have happened during the last 100 years and that's thus said to be
haunted. Thing is, these two ghost hunters make an unlikely couple indeed,
while Jack's (Michael Koltes) a skeptic who'd like to expose anything
paranormal as fraud today rather than tomorrow but has some inner demons
that haunt him and have turned him introvert, Jonathan's (Paul Flannery) a
psychic very much convinced of his own talents who's a total extrovert who
immediately gets on Jack's nerves. But while their mysterious employer
(Steve Weston) insists on them finding nothing since greedy land
developers want to make a big profit out of it, our two heroes soon find
out there's something very wrong, each in his own special way - and yes,
the house is of course haunted, and eventually even Jack's convinced there
actually IS such a thing as ghosts, and it somehow has to do with the
suicide of his wife, and now he has to trust that Jonathan knows a way out
of this - but it might just be that the whole thing's too big a bite to
chew for Jonathan even ... Now Ghosts of Darkness might
not be the total reinvention of the wheel - but what it does it does very
well, to tell a genre story in as scary a way as it can, and not relying
on spectacle but on atmospheric filmmaking (of course also supported by
great locations), clever storytelling and interesting characters embodied
by a strong cast. Plus, while the special effects might be scarce to not
distract from the story, they're pretty impressive, too. Totally worth a
watch!
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