#Ghost in the graveyard movie
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The ending is pretty predictable if not fun. Although he does utter the phrase “I am going to kill some witches”, and it sounds as campy as it reads.

#Ghost in the graveyard movie

Busey plays a relatively reserved version of the father savior and as a result the movie remains about our heroine and not about him. When this film started I did not expect Jake Busey to take on the role of guardian angel but by the end of the film I warmed to the idea. It was meaner and clearer and as a result a little more fun. Although Ghost’s reveal has more in common with the Cult of Thorn than with Eli. There is a whole reveal that is not entirely dissimilar to Eli, the Netflix original, that too has a bizarre twist. If the first act was fun and the second act was disappointing and uneven the final act can only be described as overly complex. The film’s final act returns us to the frightening ghost of Martha. She also a sex appeal that goes well with the role and can convey that within the PG-13 confines the film evokes. Zoe is earnest in her hatred of Sally (or so it seems). Olivia Larsen playing an ever increasingly psychotic Zoe puts in a good shift as villain. The scenes with creepy kid Martha are really effective and I just wish we had a bit more of that. I wanted the traditional ghost in the proverbial graveyard. There is a lot more talk of satanic mumbo jumbo including some apocryphal bible verses and other pseduo religious iconography. What follows is a fundamentally different movie than what I thought I was getting. Martha, our phantasmagorical villain, is quite effective but is undercut by this weird plot development that indicates her accidental death is more a result of some sort of satanic ritual. The human villains have a pretty fantastic access to information and seem particularly diabolical.

While it features kids on bikes these kids die, pretty violently. production. It doesn’t hurt that the first few minutes of the film are really kidcentric. The first thing that will catch your attention is the big, loud, sweeping soundtrack that immediately makes the movie feel like it is more on par with a Disney Halloween special that a traditional horror movie.That same soundtrack unabashedly leans into a 1990’s style that was welcome even if I am not convinced it was intentional.The Disney special allusion isn’t necessarily a bad thing as the film really leans into title. Within the first few minutes we get kids on bikes which really makes it akin to an Amblin.

#Ghost in the graveyard full

Little kids are creepy and this movie takes full advantage. The return story gets short shrift as the town ghost, Martha, comes back to kill the kids who witnessed her own death. Charlie (Jake Busey…yep you read that right), her father, offers up his well intentioned help. As a result of these visions she is bullied by the school plastics who talk her into going out into the woods. The Sullivans are not new to town but oldest child Sally(Kelli Berglund) is coming back after spending time away because “she see’s dead people”. Moriah is a pretty traditional small town with a really thriving private school (no for real it seems really well attended, like its HUGE). The story is relatively simple at least I thought it was…. Ghosts in the Graveyard out today from Dark Coast Entertainment is a well polished Halloween throwback, at least I think it is.