A professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Halloween carnival.
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| Nicolas Cage | ... | Mike Lawford | |
| Sarah Wayne Callies | ... | Kristen | |
| Veronica Ferres | ... | Hannah | |
| Lyriq Bent | ... | Jordan | |
| Lauren Beatty | ... | Annie Sawquin | |
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Kalie Hunter | ... | Ghost Annie |
| Jack Fulton | ... | Charlie | |
| Stephen McHattie | ... | Blind Man (as Steven McChattie) | |
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Susannah Hoffmann | ... | Jane |
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Juan Carlos Velis | ... | Cop |
| Mark Irvingsen | ... | Angry Villager #1 | |
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Liam Buckle | ... | Eldest Child |
| Sofia Wells | ... | Middle Child | |
| Aidan Wojtak-Hissong | ... | Youngest Child | |
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Caroline Gillis | ... | Priestess |
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One year after Mike Lawford's young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, he is haunted by ghostly images and terrifying messages he can't explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son-and, in doing so, he unearths the legend of the crying woman who refuses to remain buried in the past.
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25 September 2015 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Sarah plays Dr. Sara Tancredi in Prison Break (2005). She is the love interest of Michael Scofield. For this film, she plays wife of another character named Michael (Cage). See more »Goofs
When Micheal chases the Bus and then eventually gets on the bus and moves to the back searching for his son, we see that the are many empty seats at the back where he has seen his bus. However the bus is obviously very crowded from front till back. It does not makes sense for the general public to not occupy the empty seats. See more »Crazy Credits
In a mid-credits scene Hannah's corpse is being picked at by ravens. A close up shot of her face ends with her eyelids opening up to reveal black eyes. See more »Soundtracks
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Pay the Ghost is pretty much as mediocre or average as they come. It's not bad, it's not good. It's just there in the middle. Right in the middle.
(In Norway we have a saying that directly translates to "in the middle of the tree", that expression describes this movie perfectly. I don't know what word in English is most suitable though)
Pay the Ghost had one jump scare that definitely did the job for me. I jumped, and got that cold chill inside my chest. But that was also the only time the movie was remotely scary. Not that it is much horror anyway. It's way more thriller/drama than horror, really.
Nick Cage is usually entertaining to watch, and also here. Sara Tancredi (you know, Prison Break) does an alright job, her character is a little annoying, but that's the scripts fault. The kid, well, he's.. OK. he has a couple of lines that sound out of place, but hey.
The effects are mostly good, except a couple of small problems here and there. The story is just interesting enough for me to wanna watch it through. But like I said, the main keyword here is mediocre. Meh. Commonplace. Average. Call it what you will. There are a couple of problems with the script, doesn't seem like a whole lot of thought went into it, at least not into all of it. But that was as I expected, really.
The movie looks pretty good. I don't know the budget, but it doesn't have that low budget-feel to it. I like it when movies look, you know, at least a little expensive.
This is one of those horror movies you can watch in the evening on a Sunday or whatever, not the kind you build a movie night around, see what I mean? It's right there smack-dab in the middle.