Pay the Ghost – ABC Film Challenge – Mystery – U (Uli Edel) – Pay the Ghost – Movie Review
Director: Uli Edel
Writer: Dan Kay, Tim Lebbon (Screenplay)
Cast
- Nicholas Cage (Renfield)
- Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break)
- Veronica Ferres (Salt and Fire)
- Lyriq Bent (Saw IV)
- Lauren Beatty (Jigsaw)
Plot: A professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Halloween carnival.
Runtime: 1 Hour 34 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Pay the Ghost starts when Professor Mike (Cage) is celebrating Halloween with his son Charlie (Fulton). However, it turns into a nightmare when Charlie vanishes. Near one-year-later days before Halloween, no answers to Charlie’s disappearance have come to light.
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Scream VI: Movie ReviewHowever, when Mike and his wife Kristen (Callies) start having hallucinations they can’t explain, they turn to different questions. They use Mike’s connection and learn of an occurrence that happens nearly every Halloween with children missing. In a race against time, Mike looks for one more answer to save his son before it is too late.
Verdict on Pay the Ghost
Pay the Ghost is a horror mystery following a desperate father searching for answers about his missing son. It leads him down a difficult path, one he can’t explain that could see him get one more chance to learn the truth. However, it is a dangerous path and the spirits guarding the way aren’t going to be easy to defeat.
This is a ghost investigation-styled movie, where visits from spirits will guide our protagonist to answers. It gives him a chance to understand the unexplainable in his search for answers. While the scares are the typical jump scares. It is the deeper story behind everything that is the most interesting of everything we see. Nicolas Cage commits to the leading role, showing us sympathy for a man that might have lost everything he loved.
Final Thoughts – Pay the Ghost is a great ghost investigation movie.
