Lamest ghosts


I had just watched Insidious which has a bunch of cheapo milquetoast ghosts in it, plus Darth Maul, then I remembered this other execrable film, truly the most pathetic example of badly made-up cine-spooks in my ken. They each have an awkward gimmick, sort of like the Spice Girls. I've never seen the 1960 version and have no motivation to, but I can't imagine it was equally embarrassing.

I wonder what other movie could even be in the argument to surpass this one in that narrow category... The ghosts in "The Others" were sickeningly genteel but good enough for a few seconds at a time. In the objectively terrible "The Innkeepers" they were the only compelling part of the movie. The borderline-corny guardian-ghost in "Pet Sematary" was actually great, as was the kid of course. For fair consideration please exclude all Clive Barker characters who are undead yet not wraith-like, or any blatant cop-outs such as "The Shining" or "Carnival of Souls"

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Mama, so crap

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I do second.

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