If Ghost Story has one thing going for it, it’s the film’s ability to develop and sustain a powerful and compelling atmosphere. Unfortunately, the rushed screenplay disallows viewers the opportunity to fully absorb it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2024

An OK film adaptation whose primary point of interest is its collection of superlative seniors in the leading roles.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 14, 2023

The printed word doesn't necessarily translate well to the screen and the overall effect is bitty and therefore unsatisfying.

| Jul 28, 2022

The transformation of "Ghost Story" from novel to film is this year's best example of why some writers hate to see their books made into movies.

| Sep 19, 2021

Director John Irvin, so good at the intricacies of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" has come a cropper here.

| Sep 19, 2021

"Ghost Story" is just what its title says it is, a ghost story, and a humdinger of a ghost story at that.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2021

I advise you to skip it no matter how much you love those four grand actors. What a waste. Even the credits are a disaster.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 19, 2021

A noble attempt. It just didn't happen to work very well.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2021

Irvin's rhythm is as monotonous as Chopsticks, his approach to a scare scene so static that the film's most gory special effects have virtually no impact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2021

Ghost Story is a horror, all right, but it isn't even remotely scary.

| Sep 19, 2021

There's somewhere in horror surprise movies where a reviewer has to stop telling and just start recommending, and I think it's about right here for Ghost Story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2021

Director John Irvin opts for cheap thrills instead of sustaining the suspense of the story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2020

The end result is confusing and lacks dramatic force. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 23, 2019

The Shining is about decay. Ghost Story talks about decay.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 26, 2016

A film driven by atmosphere and a quiet sense of foreboding dread, Ghost Story is the hauntingly provocative adaptation of Peter Straub's novel that may be a tonal mess, but still has this weirdly hypnotic power to it after all these years.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 6, 2016

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2008

Disastrous distillation of Peter Straub's overrated but at least tolerably coherent novel.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2005