Saturday, February 27, 2021

'Ghosts That Still Walk' (1977) - James T. Flocker.

James T. Flocker's unfairly derided, amusingly creaky creepshow is a benign, family friendly 1970s spooky-kooky fright flick that all too rarely get mentioned without pronounced sarcasm, so I'm giving it some belated, but wholly deserved B-Movie love, so screw the naysayers! While the plot is looser than the evil-eyed Mummy's shroud, it has an appealing, weirdly off-centre atmosphere which gives Flocker's mobile home haunting, desert-set yarn about a lad's increasingly troublesome possession by malign medicine man some additional paranormal pep! One doesn't need ESP to divine that these genteel supernatural shenanigans are manifestly not suitable for all terror-seeking tastes, but in our increasingly agist era where fright fans all too rarely see octogenarians portrayed as proactive protagonists, the refreshingly senior cast of 'Ghosts That Still Walk' provides a welcome tonic against the teenaged hegemony of contemporary Jump-scare horror, and, besides, I've always had a soft spot for Anne 'Airplane' Nelson, who remains as charmingly watchable as ever, with handsome Matt Boston delivering an equally credible performance! 

 





 

 

 


 





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