[Once
again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for
the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The
Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded (usually with the
help of a few other writers). Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can
pull it off this year.]
Despite being an avid, long time horror fan, the truth is
very few horror movies scare me. Like anyone, a good jump scare can startle me,
and some of the more boundary-pushing films out there most definitely disturb
and/or disgust me. But in terms of shivers-down-the-spine terror, not much gets
to me.
GHOST STORIES got
to me. More than once.
Written and directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dawson, GHOST STORIES is a British horror
anthology film. It’s in the tradition of similar films that were in their prime
in the 1970’s when Amicus studios released such titles as THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORROR. But with its subtler brand of ghostly
thrills and chills, it owes more of a debt to 1941’s DEAD OF NIGHT.
