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This is the perfect horror movie - I cannot understand that I, being a horror addict, have not run into it before..! The story in itself is not very original; there are many ghost stories on the same theme, for example "Stir of Echoes". A group of friends, young men, kill a young woman by mistake. They do not want to go to jail - especially as they have so much going for them. So they hide the body and try not to think of it anymore. (Although in this movie, "Ghost Story", there is another twist to the hiding and the actual killing.) But in time the dead woman, who also has a couple of living people as her helpers, comes back to get her revenge...
"Ghost Story" contains _everything_. Immensely good scares. Exciting plot development that keeps you on edge all the time - there are no dull moments! Also, I think it is so good because there are several different things to be scared of in the same movie, at the same time as they are all well entwined. The ghost itself of course, her human helpers who are very unpleasant lunatics on the run from a mental asylum, the horrible way in which the woman dies, and last but not least the now old men who have lived a good life and enjoyed good careers, family, beautiful homes etc., while their young victim has been lying in her wet grave, deprived of everything...
I think the movie was also psychologically excellent. Because one understands how a thing that this can happen in reality (not the haunting, of course!). When young men are sexually frustrated, and at the same time attracted to and shy in the company of a young woman that they do not really respect... And the alcohol and peer pressure make them do things they would never do alone, being nice and well-behaved boys normally....
Last but not least I must mention the cast. All of the actors are VERY good; real character actors. Even those in small supporting roles, such as the wives of the old men. That is very unusual in horror movies I believe, and that is one of the reasons that it turned out so good. Not only because these actors act well, but because they give more credibility to the movie. By the way, I had no idea before that Fred Astaire did real, "straight" character roles - I mean without any singing and dancing - when he was old. I now admire him even more!
score 10/10
Catharina_Sweden 27 December 2010
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