GHOST STORIES
Completed / UK / 2018 / 98mins
Supernatural / ThrillerProfessor Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman), psychologist and arch-sceptic, has his rationality tested to the hilt when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three terrifying ‘hauntings’. Shaken by what he reads, Goodman embarks on a mission to find rational explanations for these ghostly stories.
As Goodman investigates, he meets three tormented people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last. Night-watchman Tony Matthews (Paul Whitehouse) had a horrifying encounter in an empty warehouse and it has haunted him for years. Teenager Simon Rifkind (Alex Lawther) took a late night drive that has rendered him unable to sleep. Mike Priddle (Martin Freeman), a brash banker, has had his worldview shaken to the core by unquiet spirits that apparently inhabit his otherwise perfect existence.
As Goodman digs into their stories, his carefully maintained and rational world starts to dissolve around him. Is it a trick of the mind or are darker forces at work? Gradually Goodman is drawn towards the unearthing of a long-buried secret that will pull his life, and everything he thought he knew, apart.
"an exhilarating and entertaining experience"
"a disturbing, atmospheric fable"
"a classy, clammy compendium of vintage creepy thrills"
"...will stay with you long after it’s over. Cleverly written and wonderfully realized, this phantasmagoria will get under your skin and refuse to leave"
"a Bonkers and Bloody Brilliant Existential Mystery"
"A masterful horror movie...new and thrillingly original"