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Bookmark this pageGhost Story (1981)
Director: John Irvin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Disastrous distillation of Peter Straub's overrated but at least tolerably coherent novel. The action is now almost as arthritic as the performances of the quartet of golden oldies who sit around regaling each other with ghost stories while the demonic spirit of a girl they wronged in their youth rampages around wreaking vengeance. The horror, weakly and predictably managed by Irvin, is mainly confined to tiresomely repetitive shots of the rotting flesh that lurks beyond the demon's pretty face.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: John Irvin
Producer: Burt Weissbourd
Cast: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Patricia Neal, Alice Krige, Jacqueline Brookes full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 110 mins
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