What happens when a guy keeps trying to off himself, but nobody will let him but then some of the people who keep stopping him decide to murder him instead????
The Ghost happens – and I’d just love to know why.
Actually, I don’t really care. I just think it’s super goofy. Despite the absolutely batty, nonsense-riddled premise, The Ghost is actually quite entertaining. Like, it’s really dumb that he wants to die, but then he doesn’t want to die suddenly for reasons that are revealed 5 minutes before the movie ends, but then he gets made dead anyway. So he HAUNTS THE JOINT. Because that’s what one does, I assume. You haunt people who piss you off in life (there’s a lesson in there, surely). And these people pissed Dr. Hitchcock right the fuck off. He’s very angry. And vengeful – so that’s fun.
Movie hauntings are almost always fun – especially when they were made by an Italian director in the 60s. And they star the always iconic Barbara Steele. The Ghost was written and directed by the same guy who brought us The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (delightful nonsense itself), and who wrote the screenplay for Mario Bava’s (et. al) Lust of the Vampire. So he’s got cred. Cred for writing and/or directing whackadoodle wonders, that is. And seriously, somehow The Ghost works. Despite not working at all. It’s the type of movie that you watch once, think ‘holy shit that was incredibly stupid,’ but somehow still know you would watch again.
It’s worth noting that The Ghost is apparently a sequel to 1962’s L’Orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock (aka The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock – although shouldn’t it be The Horrible Secret of Dr. Hitchcock or Dr. Hitchcock’s Horrible Secret????).
I caught it on Night Flight Plus.
