After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.
- Awards
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
Storyline
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- TriviaThe title of the film was misspelled as "Ghost Storeis" in much of the pre-release media. This was done to accord with the production's tagline "The brain sees what it wants to see"
- GoofsDuring the first case examined, when the night watchman talks to his Russian counterpart on the radio, his coworker says (in a Russian accent), "we have a word for this back home. It is 'zloslivy.'" The word "zlosliwy" is Polish, not Russian. There is no Russian cognate for it.
- Quotes
Mike Priddle: It's funny, isn't it? How it's always the last key that unlocks everything.
- Crazy creditsThe production logos play over the sound of dripping water and someone struggling to breathe.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Projector: Ghost Stories (2018)
- SoundtracksMonster Mash
Performed by Bobby Pickett (as Bobby "Boris" Pickett) & The Cryptkicker Five (as The Crypt Kickers).
Written by Bobby Pickett (as Bobby "Boris" Pickett) & Leonard L. Capizzi (as Leonard L Capizzi).
Used by kind permission of Carlin Music Corp.
Published by Courtesy of Decca Music Group Ltd.
Featured review
It's difficult to review Ghost Stories without giving spoilers away, so I'll be very careful in what I say.
If you're after some good jump scares and some nervous laughs, then it executes those beautifully. Also, Alex Lawther should be praised for a performance that knocks it out of the park. It's a good cast, but he outshines them all.
However, I do have issues with the story itself.
Initially the plotting teases a new post-modern take on portmanteau horror, with the individual cases not resolving in the usual way, but building to something more climatic.
But the story constructs its final act by falling back on a trope that we have all seen before and this left me disappointed when the credits rolled.
From Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman you might expect something else. Something different.
Something new.
It's very well-made, but it's not different or new.
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- Country of origin
- Official sites
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- Also known as
- Historias de ultratumba
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $148,747
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,972
- Apr 22, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $4,131,358
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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