Ghost Light

My overall impression

Okay, so you’re not going to see anything particularly original or groundbreaking here.

But it doesn’t seem that that’s what the “Ghost Light” folks are after.

They’re after cheap laughs and cheap scares – and they get them.

We meet a typical cast of B horror movie types and watch them run into typical B horror movie spookiness all while spouting a typical amount of B horror cliches and jokes.

But you know what? That’s basically what I was expecting and that’s essentially what I got.

So if I’m sold the product that I expect, I’m a pretty happy camper.

We don’t watch B horror movies to have our minds blown by their depth and insight. We go to laugh and we go to roll our eyes at the characters’ collective stupidity and we go to (hopefully) get a little bit frightened.

And thanks to some nicely-ratcheted (albeit a little slow-developing at the start) tension and some pretty effective lighting and sound cues, I did get a little frightened.

But then again, maybe I’m just a sucker for B-movie horror thrills.

If that’s not your thing, this won’t be. But if it is, give it a shot. You may just find that you enjoy yourself. I certainly did!