//Revelation Film Festival Review//
Like recent anthology horror films VHS and ABC's of Death, Ghost Stories is hit and miss with its collection of horror shorts. Its tone veers widely between dark comedy and serious horror territory, and neither work too effectively. To boot, none of the shorts are particularly interesting and each of them end abruptly without offering much closure.
It's only by the end of the wrap-around narrative about a paranormal debunker investigating the happenings that the film offers some cohesion, but it comes as too little, too late. With only three average shorts to go around a solid wrap-around narrative, Ghost Stories' low batting average makes it more of a miss.
Summary: Not scary enough to work as a horror film, not funny enough to work as a dark comedy, Ghost Stories sits flatly in-between.
Like recent anthology horror films VHS and ABC's of Death, Ghost Stories is hit and miss with its collection of horror shorts. Its tone veers widely between dark comedy and serious horror territory, and neither work too effectively. To boot, none of the shorts are particularly interesting and each of them end abruptly without offering much closure.
It's only by the end of the wrap-around narrative about a paranormal debunker investigating the happenings that the film offers some cohesion, but it comes as too little, too late. With only three average shorts to go around a solid wrap-around narrative, Ghost Stories' low batting average makes it more of a miss.
Summary: Not scary enough to work as a horror film, not funny enough to work as a dark comedy, Ghost Stories sits flatly in-between.