As for Cage, he’s done a lot worse, but he’s done a lot better too.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2022

It was so much content that you didn't know what bit to take seriously so it was just continuous scares throughout the whole movie instead of building it up.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 19, 2021

Cage plays 90% of Pay the Ghost straight, which is a shame because his off-the-wall antics and expressionistic meltdowns would have definitely mitigated extreme boredom and lazy writing into something possibly worth remembering for laughs

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 3, 2017

[Nicholas] Cage's moony-eyed melancholy over his missing kid gets tiring fast and while the film's ghostly Celtic legend is intriguing, the whole thing falls rather flat, made worse by cheap-looking special effects.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2017

An average film that never really quite works. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 16, 2016

Pay the Ghost is not as a complete time-waster as some of the actor's previous films. But it's still not smart or crafty enough to do much to regenerate and restore the actor's already tarnished flailing career.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 1, 2016

It is a bland attempt of supernatural horror that becomes more and more embarrassing in every imaginable aspect. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Jan 17, 2016

The director tries to scare us with jump scares and high pitched music, but as the film advances it becomes an involuntary comedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 15, 2016

Lacking horror and full of failed jump scares, this is another forgettable film by Cage. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2016

Another fogettable film from an actor that once promised to be the best of his generation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 14, 2016

It's a little "Ransom," a little "Devil's Advocate," and a little "Darkness Falls" all wrapped up into one efficient, straightforward, not-overwhelming-but-certainly-diverting package.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2015

Pay the Ghost offers the best of both Cage worlds, giving the actor a finely etched character to play as well as an abstract, phantasmagorical cinematic canvas for him to explore.

| Oct 23, 2015

An insufferably sluggish, irredeemably silly supernatural would-be thriller that isn't remotely scary but is continuously boring.

| Original Score: D | Oct 2, 2015

It's standard supernatural horror stuff.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 30, 2015

'Pay the Ghost' looks good and creepy, but some scenes just made me sleepy.

| Sep 27, 2015

If it's remembered for nothing else, and it almost certainly won't be, Uli Edel's "Pay the Ghost" can at least make a claim to being the first film to feature a haunted razor scooter in a horror setpiece.

| Sep 26, 2015

The story is so incoherent that it becomes more laughable instead of suspenseful as it goes along.

| Sep 25, 2015

Weird enough to keep it moderately entertaining at times, but only barely.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2015

The main issue with "Pay The Ghost," is that it does absolutely nothing new - let alone muster up a reason for its own existence.

| Original Score: D | Sep 25, 2015

A new low for Nicolas Cage. Just when you thought he couldn't get any more apathetic about a role, he pops up in this lazy, boring retread of "Insidious" that even his most diehard fans should ignore.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2015