Ghost Stories

Rating: b+

  • Oooh yay! An anthology! This makes me hope it’ll be a lot like Creepshow! (omg. The slime on the lake short messed me up for years! Especially as we often swam in lakes…)
  • Nice intro. I wasn’t sure what to expect when the opening line was uttered and it wasn’t what I had expected. I’m just into the second line of the film and I’m wondering, what’s the twist? What’s going on?
  • Hahahaha a cassette tape. I wonder how many people born in the 2000’s saw this movie and went, wtf is that thing? I also love how the cassette player he had was the classic ‘movie’ one.
  • It must be so much fun for an actor to play a grumpy old man who gives zero fucks.
  • Huh. I wonder why the shot emphasized the number on the door? Or is that my imagination?
  • OHHHHH snap! His hero just slapped him the fuck doooown! Great men and women don’t like to be emulated.
  • OH!!! Oh!!! This is the framework for the anthology! I see! I very much like this. So, the framework is a retired paranormal debunker is troubled by three cases he couldn’t disprove and he’s passed those cases down to a debunker younger than he is to debunk for him. Brilliant!
  • Oooh subtle. The pigeon skeleton was gone the second time he went down the stairs. I am totally getting the heebie jeebies from this! (Fun etymological fact: heebie jeebies is rhyming reduplication and was invented in the early 1900’s by a cartoonist. It doesn’t really come from anywhere. It was made up to mean exactly what it does today.
  • Okay, again, the doors with numbers on them. One of the doors has a 79 just like the grumpy old man’s home…
  • Oh Tony. I would have quit being a security guard on the spot after an encounter like that! 😮
  • Augh! GOATMAN! Auuuuugh!
  • Okay. But srsly. What kind of person witnesses a bunch of bottles stacking up in front of them with nobody around to do it and THEN doesn’t GTFO? NOT ME! I’d have been out the door in a heartbeat!
  • AUGH! JFC Martin, you started me!
  • WTF? WTTTFFFF? Where is this going?
  • Huh. HUH. I mean, okay? I hadn’t really expected that ending but I had sort of figured something was up.
  • Great acting, btw. I just felt it was trying a bit too hard to be more high-brow than it was.
  • I would watch this