# Ghost Story (1981)

> A secretive circle of elderly New England men is forced to confront a vengeful supernatural legacy when strange deaths begin to echo their buried past.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/14566

## Facts

- Runtime: 110 min
- Genres: Horror, Drama, Thriller
- Director: John Irvin
- Cast: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Patricia Neal, Alice Krige, Jacqueline Brookes
- TMDB rating: 6.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082449/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Mood: eerie, foreboding, melancholic, late night horror viewing, rainy evening

## Movies like Ghost Story

- [The Other (1972)](https://ember.film/movie/21961)
- [House of Usher (1960)](https://ember.film/movie/13892)
- [Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)](https://ember.film/movie/18456)
- [Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)](https://ember.film/movie/5398)
- [Next of Kin (1982)](https://ember.film/movie/60401)
- [Dream House (2011)](https://ember.film/movie/48654)
- [We Are Still Here (2015)](https://ember.film/movie/176116)
- [House of the Long Shadows (1983)](https://ember.film/movie/24799)
- [The City of the Dead (1960)](https://ember.film/movie/25266)
- [The Whales of August (1987)](https://ember.film/movie/33553)

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