'Ghost Stories': Film Review | LFF 2017

Martin Freeman co-stars in this British horror anthology, adapted from a hit London stage show.
First staged in Liverpool in 2010, the hit theater show Ghost Stories has so far enjoyed two long London runs plus detours to Toronto, Moscow, Sydney and beyond. Its multi-plot format pays homage to the golden age of portmanteau British horror films, from eerie Ealing Studios classics like Dead of Night to the campy low-budget shockers made by Amicus and Hammer in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Ghost Stories is a witty and well-crafted love letter to old-school horror tropes. Even if some local British references may get lost in translation, the film still has solid readymade appeal to genre-friendly fans and festivals, with the added commercial kick of Freeman’s marquee name. Lionsgate have signed up UK rights, and Altitude is selling the film internationally.