Thursday, March 14, 2019

Lady in White

Lady in White is a 1988 horror movie ghost story based on a legend. It's predictable, but I prefer ghost stories to slasher films and movies with torture, so this -even though it includes child-endangerment- suits my taste.

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The New York Times opens their review with this:
Ghosts are rarely as intriguing as the people they haunt, so ''Lady in White'' has a shrewdly chosen focus. Its sympathetic, engaging, haunted hero is Frankie Scarlatti, a 9-year-old boy who sees the ghost of a murdered 10-year-old girl. Frankie is locked in a spooky school cloakroom on Halloween night in 1962, when he sees the apparition of Melissa and is nearly strangled himself. Though he is rescued, in the next months Melissa reappears, and their mysterious attacker, suspected of killing 11 children in a decade, is still on the loose.
Moria gives it 4 stars, calls it "a remarkable and haunting ghost story," and "beautifully tender and haunting". Roger Ebert gives it 3 out of 4 stars and opens with this: "“Lady in White” tells a classic ghost story in such an everyday way that the ghost is almost believable, and the story is actually scarier than it might have been with a more gruesome approach." Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 64%.

12 comments:

  1. Not heard of this movie. I'm not brave enough for ghost stories especially ones that are possible.

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    1. I'm not a believer, so they're just fantasy tales for me. The endangered child idea is more of a problem for me....

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  2. The Lady in White stories are spooky fun

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    1. Hauntings and ghost stories, I like those.

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  3. I enjoyed this story and a film of it. Valerie

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    1. I think it's a good one for the Halloween season.

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  4. Sounds scary to me and for some reason my mind can't distinguish between fantasy and reality so it would probably keep me up at night ...lol 😉. Enjoy and wishing you a Happy Friday! J 😊 x

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    1. Ghost stories are something I was used to from an early age when the kids would gather around and take turns telling them :)

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  5. I had seen this way back when. I cold remember the beginning with the boy in the coat closet at school and the murdered ghost girl but couldn't remember how the rest of it went...so, of course, I had to watch it again. I do like how they sewed it all up at the end. Funny I couldn't remember that, though. Probably because I have never been that fond of ghost/horror movies so I don't pay as close of attention--but this one wasn't so much horror as mystery. :)

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    1. It's an interesting thing how many ghost stories aren't so much about horror as about the life of the person who is now the ghost. I think about the tv series "Ghost Whisperer". Nobody ever mistakes it for horror just because it has ghosts.

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  6. Remind me I can't spend two hours watching a ghost story and still be able to catch up on my comments (grin)!

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