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Critics Consensus: Ghost Stories offers a well-crafted, skillfully told horror anthology that cleverly toys with genre tropes while adding a few devilishly frightful twists.
Critic Consensus: Ghost Stories offers a well-crafted, skillfully told horror anthology that cleverly toys with genre tropes while adding a few devilishly frightful twists.
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Ghost Stories has more genuine scares than most horror movies, so it almost seems a bit unfair when it's funny too.
This film nails its black humor and finds a bizarre but satisfying conclusion to manage all the loose ends.
"Ghost Stories" certainly kept me squirming in my seat, but I was writhing to head toward the exit.
The element that's too often missing from horror is one that Dyson and Nyman relish: fun.
The filmmakers trust the audience, and benefit from a trio of excellent performances by the subjects of each story.
"Ghost Stories" is nothing if not nostalgic: for old-fashioned creepshows that send a mordant chill down the spine, shadows as sinister as the specters within them, and audiences freshly eager to peer into both.
A gloomy day in Britain makes the most ordinary places creepy, and in these caravan sites and empty pubs it's their ordinariness that makes what you see so spine-tingling. Menace and misery permeates everything, until each story is drenched in sadness.
Ghost Stories knows [you know the tropes] & it relishes in taking those expectations & dangling them before you until you're snug in how you think [the film] will play out.
A few fleeting moments of well-directed tension in the first yarn about a nightwatchman can't make-up for the copy-cat contrivances of the rest of the film.
I love the tone of the film and its construction, but it ultimately goes to places I'm not willing to follow.
Not only an exercise in nostalgia but also in quintessential Britishness. This is a film where every sky is grey and where, if a man can wear a tan raincoat, he will.
It's a letdown to find that there's nothing at the bottom of a box of tricks which in themselves are not as clever as they could have been.
What you've got here are three relatively intriguing horror concepts that end just as they are getting interesting held together by a pretty mediocre central story.
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