The filmmaker took Straub's lush, strange novel with it's Manitou and ghosts straight out of "The Turn of The Screw" and turned it into a really dull, conventional horror film :/
Alice Krige's nudity aside, this just wasn't very good.
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Quite right. It's almost like the film was designed to drive fans of the novel utterly insane.
shareI am a huge fan of the book. Although I thought this movie was average, I think the filmmaker definitely portrayed the atmosphere and setting spot on. I just love the snow and the internal shots of the homes. It was what I pictured when reading the novel.
shareI agree with you guys. The film should have been a classic instead of a forgettable movie that nobody has heard of.
I thought the book was well beyond a conventional ghost story with a great deal of mystery, psychological and physical horror and a complexity of various threads that just don't play out well in the film. At the time it reminded me of some of Kings best novels. I know Peter Straub is established in his own right but this was my favorite of his as he tends to do less of the multi character universe.
I haven't read the book but I thought the movie was ok
shareIn the early '80s I read all the Peter Straub books since he was equal to Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Robert McCammon at the time, but skipped "Ghost Story" because I saw this movie first, and thought the book was probably just as boring as the movie. Re-watching the movie recently, I think it's a nice time capsule of the very early 1980s era.
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