GHOST STORIES
Cert 15 Running time 97 minutes ★★★★
Probe the paranormal with this supernatural British thriller. Andy Nyman stars as a TV presenter professor who is evangelical in his mission to debunk psychics and the existence of the afterlife. But his faith in science is tested when he is challenged to solve three ghostly cases.
As the tremendous trio of Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Martin Freeman anchor each segment, the spectre of A Christmas Carol haunts the story and Charles Dickens would have appreciated its bleak and dark turns.
Beautifully played and with a theatrical insistence on in-camera special effects, it’s inventive and funny as events become increasingly bonkers. Asylums, churches, caravan parks and Yorkshire moors provide a damp and downbeat environment alongside a more traditional fog-bound forest.
We’re asked to contemplate the emptiness of living without the possibility of an ever after. And by the time Ghost Stories has scared you half to death, you will be praying there is.