Synopsis
Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.
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Cast
- Andy NymanProfessor Goodman
- Martin FreemanMike Priddle
- Alex LawtherSimon Rifkind
- Paul WhitehouseTony Matthews
- Nicholas BurnsMark van Rhys
- Kobna Holdbrook-SmithFather Emery
- Louise AtkinsSteph
- Daniel HillMr. Goodman
- Deborah WastellMrs. Goodman
- Amy DoyleEsther Goodman
Recommendations
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The Guardian
Ghost Stories is a barnstormer of an entertainment, a fairground ride with dodgy brakes. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Ghost Stories is a witty and well-crafted love letter to old-school horror tropes. - 80
Screen Daily
Underneath the entertaining horror, this is ultimately a story of the toxic trappings of masculinity; a world in which keeping a stiff upper lip and resolutely burying your demons can summon the most terrifying of consequences. - 80
Total Film
Bone-chillingly told and beautifully made, Ghost Stories is an expert twist on an evergreen genre. - 80
Empire
Not quite a terrifying thrill-ride, Ghost Stories is a creepy, disturbing ghost train with a beefier backbone than its source material, trading on tropes but still making your skin itch. - 80
Time Out
Its world is weirdly familiar and yet alien. It’s also darn scary. - 70
Variety
There’s the phantom of a psychothriller for the ages inside “Ghost Stories” that never quite fights its way out of the film’s tightly structured creepshow homage, but the goosebumps it raises are real, and honestly earned. - 67
The Playlist
There’s still a lot of pleasure to be had here, whether from digging your fingernails into the armrest early on, to Freeman’s sly comic performance later.
