Four elderly men--Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and John Houseman--meet regularly in New England to tell each other ghost stories. One year, strange occurrences upset the usual routine. It's then revealed that, 50 years earlier, these men accidentally killed a
lovely young tease. To cover their tracks, they put her in a car and drove it into a lake, only to see her frantically but unsuccessfully try to escape. Alice Krige (CHARIOTS OF FIRE; BARFLY) turns in an eerie performance as the vengeful ghost. The film suffers from a haphazard script by CARRIE
screenwriter Larry Cohen, who removed all of the nuance and subtlety from Peter Straub's bes...
Released:
1981
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins