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Ghost Stories (2017) – J. Dyson & A. Nyman
I’m always searching for a supernatural chiller that
lives up to my expectations, but, alas, Ghost Stories did not. Co-director
(with Jeremy Dyson) Andy Nyman stars as Prof. Philip Goodman, a psychic debunker
who is provided with a series of three cases that an earlier debunker could not
prove false. The three stories are then re-enacted as Goodman interviews each
participant (providing a framing device much like those used in the horror
anthologies from Amicus Productions in the ‘60s and ‘70s). Although the re-enactments do offer some
spooky moments – they tend to fizzle out, leaving viewers wondering why they
were so likely to be truly supernatural.
Worse, Goodman ends up inserted into some of the stories and then the
framing device concludes with what is meant to be a clever twist. I’ll keep searching.
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