Home again, ghosts again. The British, with their old mansions and all sorts of castles, from which history blows directly, love to shoot horror films no less than the Americans. Of course, the film industry is not developed at the same level as Hollywood shows, but for example, “The Woman in Black” was a really scary sight. There were certain chances of success and the film under the banal name “Ghosts”, but as soon as you sit down to watch it, you realize that everything is not as cool as it could come out.
The film tells us about a young nurse who finds herself in a large old house, where a seriously ill patient lives. Trying to perform their duties, the heroine also became interested in the building itself, which you can walk all day and not get bored. But it soon becomes clear that there is something else in the house. And these are not living people at all, but something otherworldly.
For obvious reasons, it is not possible to get the truth from the patient. The disease is too strong, which means that nothing sensible can be obtained from it, which means that the girl has to solve the issue on her own. Apparently, the ghost needs something specific from her. Only here is what – still have to figure out. And complete with everything we have absolutely intrepid special effects and almost complete absence of a really creepy atmosphere.
Ghosts was filmed in 2018 and for a very long time got to the rental in different countries. Without a serious distributor capable of providing a large number of screens, the creators distributed their brainchild to local distributors and in Russia the film appeared almost three years after its premiere. There is nothing special here.
The film is not equal to many modern box office horror. It seems to be trying to seem intriguing, but everything falls to dust and ashes very quickly. The plot is slow, the mystery seems to be there, only I personally did not care what kind of mysterious force it was and what it wanted. I liked the main character, who tries to play her role with dignity, but she could not offer anything serious director.
Speaking of David Holroyd, Ghosts can be called his most famous project in his career. Prior to that, he directed mainly television films and TV series, which did not bring him much fame. There were some hopes for this horror, but in fact nothing special he could not offer.
If you have reviewed all the horror movies that were really interesting to you, you can also watch Ghosts. The film is not that completely terrible in artistic terms, but this does not save him much from criticism. Too much mediocrity began to appear in this genre and it saddens me.
4 out of 10