Directed by: Brad Silberling
Starring: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Malachi Pearson
I would've watched another film earlier but I wanted to watch Superbad again. So I ended up watching this film.
I remember watching this film when I was little, I absolutely loved it. It made me laugh, it made me scared and it even made me sad.
Basically, some rich woman gets an old house in her dad's will but it's haunted by three unfriendly ghosts (stretch, stinky and fatso) and a friendly one (casper). She employs Dr. Harvey (Pullman) to get rid of the ghosts. So he and his daughter Kat (Played by the hot alien Christina Ricci) move into Whipstaff manor and are greeted by the ghosts.
The story unravels about Casper's death and the treasure hidden in the manor whilst giving us humour and some drama.
When I first watched this film (about 12 years ago), I thought it was funny but I had no idea of the world around me so did not see the adult humour and parody within it. For example, Dan Akroyd comes running out of the manor saying "Who you gonna call? Someone else!" and the priest who's head spins round and is thrown up on a la the Exorcist.
The film's humour is a load of parodies put together using ghosts to pull it off.
I don't think that there are many family films out there that deal with death (one off the top of my head is Ghost Dad) and this one does it quite well although there is a slightly sad scene towards the end.
This is one of my favourite childhood films and I'll leave it at that.
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