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In this supernatural nostalgia piece, a young boy tracks down a murderer with help from the ghosts of a slain little girl and her mother. In a voice-over, grown-up writer Frankie Scarlatti describes the disturbing events that intruded on his idyllic small-town boyhood. Locked in the school cloakroom by some other boys on Halloween 1962, young Frankie (Lukas Haas) encounters the ghost of Melissa Anne Montgomery (Joelle Jacobi), who re-enacts her own death by strangulation just before an unseen
Apr 22, 1988 Wide
Mar 14, 1998
Virgin Vision
All Critics (16) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (4) | DVD (6)
Far from perfect, but what it lacks in finesse, it makes up in shaggy-dog charm....the fun is in the journey.
The sort of spooky flick you can watch in the dark with your pre-teen-ish progeny and not have to worry about the sex, smut, or splatter.
Surprisingly effective little ghost story.
...by having the main character narrate the tale, the suspense of his being seriously injured or killed at any time during the action is greatly diminished.
...atmosphere at the expense of shivers or frights.
It's Halloween 1962 in the small town of Willowpiont Falls, there's a child killer on the loose and - three years on from Peter Weir's Witness - little Lukas Haas still hasn't learned when to keep his eyes shut. Before anybody gets the wrong impression, I really enjoyed this. I just feel that writer/director/composer
May 25, 2008Super Reviewer
I really love this film, it?s a childhood favourite of mine and it?s still scary too!
September 14, 2009Super Reviewer
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