Complete credited cast: | |||
Anthony Bate | ... | Doctor Borden | |
Larry Dann | ... | Talbot | |
Marianne Faithfull | ... | Sophy Kwykwer | |
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Sally Grace | ... | Girl |
Penelope Keith | ... | Rennie | |
Leigh Lawson | ... | Robert | |
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Vivian MacKerrell | ... | Duller (as Vivian Mackerell) |
Murray Melvin | ... | McFayden | |
Barbara Shelley | ... | Matron |
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place. Written by Ørnås
Pretty awful British mystery disguised as a horror film, Ghost Story pitches some poncey people into an old country house retreat and one of them starts to see spectral images that nobody else can. Directed by Stephen Weeks (I, Monster) and starring Anthony Bate, Larry Dann, Marianne Faithful, Sally Grace, Penelope Keith, Leigh Lawson and Vivian MacKerrell, what transpires for the 90 minute run time is utter boredom and bad writing.
There's too many unanswered questions hanging in the air throughout, the pace is straight out of the snail derby, and the musical score is wholly inappropriate. Faithful gives good value as a tortured soul, and Weeks shows a good turn of ingenuity for some atmospheric scenes in an Asylum, but other than that, this is a cure for insomnia and rightly it has vanished into relative obscurity. 3/10