The Ghosting

(1992)
Director: Walt Hefner
Writer: Walt Hefner

The Ghosting begins with a waitress moving into an abandoned church with her husband, a Vietnam veteran, and their two children. The husband buries a drifter that died in his back seat who, unbeknownst to him, is also the ax murderer that slaughtered his own family years before in the church they're now living in. Naturally a series of unexplained ghostly phenomena, or ghostings, begin terrorizing the family.

While The Ghosting does quite a few interesting things visually, the plot seems to be pretty generic and borrows heavily from better movies such as House, The Exorcist, and The Shining. Most of the actors, especially the father, are hilariously awful. The plot takes bizarre turns that don't make much sense, and other seemingly important plot points are immediately forgotten. In one scene, the daughter appears to be violently raped by a ghost. Yet, in the next scene she seems perfectly okay, goes on a date with a boy, and the event is never mentioned again. Also there's a great scene where the father fights a giant rubber dragon head. A lot of these inexplicable plot developments are very entertaining but at almost two hours long, the movie begins to drag a lot.

I picked up a VHS of The Ghosting because it was cheap and it does have a pretty badass cover. Thankfully there was no actual ghosting in the movie. All in all, I can't really recommend it as a good movie, but with a few beers and some friends it could be a good time.

5 1/2 out of 12 beers