Ghost Story
1981 · Movie · R · 110 min · ★ 6.0 · 34% critics
In a wintry small town, four elderly friends are bound by a dark secret from decades earlier. After a shocking family tragedy, strange events begin to close in on them, turning their fireside ghost tales into something far more personal and unsettling.
Based on Ghost Story
Also known as Ghost Story - UR · Le fantome de Milburn
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Details
- Years
- 1981
- Release date
- 1981-12-18
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Critic score
- 34/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (170 votes)
- Box office
- $23,371,905
- Budget
- $13,500,000
About
You may like this if you enjoy old-fashioned, atmospheric ghost stories with more mystery and dread than action; Not for you if you want fast, brutal horror more like Friday the 13th Part 2 or Hatchet II.
Pros: moody winter atmosphere; strong veteran cast; intriguing premise | Cons: slow pacing; light on scares; uneven performances
Themes
- based on novel or book
- nightmare
- revenge
- gothic horror
- guilt
- new england
- ghost story
- elderly
- 1930s
Cast & crew
Fred Astaire
as Ricky Hawthorne
Melvyn Douglas
as Dr. John Jaffrey
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Edward Charles Wanderley
John Houseman
as Sears James
Craig Wasson
as Don Wanderley / David Wanderley
Patricia Neal
as Stella Hawthorne
Alice Krige
as Eva Galli / Alma Mobley
Jacqueline Brookes
as Milly
Miguel Fernandes
as Gregory Bates
- LH
Lance Holcomb
as Fenny Bates
Directed by John Irvin