Hollywood’s Best ‘I See Dead People’ Movies
In Clint Eastwood’s "Hereafter," Matt Damon plays a psychic who communicates with ghosts, continuing the trend of sensitive treatment of spectral beings. Things were better in the days when Hollywood made really scary movies about those who came back from the grave.
What do you get when you combine Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melyvn Douglas, and a pissed-off spectral apparition out for their blood? You get one of the cheesiest, most delicious, scene-chewing ghost tales ever. Yeah, the shivers are manufactured and the special effects are painful, but it’s genuinely creepy rather than gross, and the depths this particular spook goes to in order to get even from beyond the grave make Glenn Close’s machinations in Fatal Attraction look like child’s play.
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