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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "Ghost Story" is a very strange film, with an oddly disassociated atmosphere in which very little of note happens. Set in 1930's England it sees McFayden (Murray Melvin) inviting two former college friends - Duller (Vivian MacKerrell) and Talbot (Larry Dann) - to the country mansion which he's just inherited. Talbot begins to suffer visions about the former occupants of the mansion and begins to believe he's being haunted by a porcelain doll from the visions. Co-written by Philip Norman, Rosemary Sutcliff and director Stephen Weeks, the film feels as if the trio wrote three different scripts and tried to ram them together into one movie - very little within the script makes sense, elements contradict each other, there is no narrative flow, it's difficult to discern who's haunting who and why and the pacing supplied by Weeks is desperately funereal. There is nothing scary about the film, even the scenes which were meant to create a fission are lacking in tension. It is nicely shot, however, and has a loud, mostly inappropriate score that is often at odds with the on-screen pictures. You anticipate that it will all come together into a satisfying whole, but it never does; never even comes close. Vivian MacKerrell and Talbot Larry Dann are both deadly dull in the lead roles but the great Murray Melvin rescues everything with another of his trademark eccentric performances. Marianne Faithfull and Penelope Keith, both turn up in smaller roles. Overall "Ghost Story" is a confused mess, with a poor story that lacked both logic or anything that approach a frightening scene. Everything about it forced and awkward, all of which added up in an odd, out of sync atmosphere. It has the great Murray Melvin in it, however, who can rescue even the direst material and for his performance alone it's worth watching. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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