Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "ghost story"

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A Place of One’s Own *** (1945, James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 11,805

The 1945 British film A Place of One’s Own is an Edwardian ghost story starring James Mason and Barbara Mullen as an elderly couple whose young companion (Margaret Lockwood) is possessed by the spirit of […]

Dec, 19

Lady in White ***½ (1988, Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond) – Classic Movie Review 10,972

The eerie 1988 supernatural mystery horror film Lady in White stars Lukas Haas as a schoolboy in 1962 upstate New York mixed up in a series of child murders after he witnesses the ghost of […]

Feb, 28

The Woman in Black * (2012, Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,205

The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally dull and tame ghost story that has little going for it apart from Daniel Radcliffe’s strong central performance as London solicitor Arthur Kipps, grieving over the death […]

Aug, 21

Ghost Story *** (1981, Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Patricia Neal, Alice Krige) – Classic Movie Review 8493

Director John Irvin’s 1981 chiller Ghost Story tells an atmospheric horror tale that unfortunately does not add up to a sum of its individual fascinating parts: Peter Straub’s intriguing bestseller novel and a quartet of […]

May, 23

In Fabric **** (2018, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Fatma Mohamed, Jaygann Ayeh, Leo Bill, Hayley Squires) – Movie Review

Writer-director Peter Strickland’s In Fabric is an often hilarious black comedy ghost story about a cursed red dress that comes from an English department store winter sales and passes from person to person, with the […]

Oct, 16

The Little Stranger ** (2018, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter) – Movie Review

Caught between an art film and a chiller movie, director Lenny Abrahamson’s 2018 The Little Stranger is well enough made but clumsy, clichéd and amateurish. On the chiller side, it doesn’t work either as psychological thriller or a […]

Sep, 22

Personal Shopper ***½ (2016, Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz) – Movie Review

Kristen Stewart teams up with writer-director Olivier Assayas after Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) to star as a personal shopper for a rich, busy star in a movie that dangerously tries mix a ghost story with a Paris fashion world drama and […]

Oct, 10

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