'Ghost Story' (1981) - John Irvin.

Horror Maestro Stephen King once said that you should never write an unhappy ending...I'm so very glad Peter Straub didn't listen! Some hardened fear-fans are apparently gored rigid by John Irvin's frost-bitten 80s fright-fest 'Ghost Story', while many others are scintillatingly scared stiff, as Alice Krige's ice-cold dish Eva Galli gives evil good dead! The venerable old gentlemen of 'The Chowder Society' like to tell tall tales...but on this especially fateful night they won't even have the ghost of a chance to finish it! With an impeccable cast of Hollywood veterans, one of the most sensual, and immaculately sinister succubi ever projected upon the silver scream, the majestically mouldering, mould-breaking practical FX by visionary make-up genius Dick Smith, and a wonderfully evocative score by Philippe Sarde guarantees the more darkly discerning horror fan the most diabolical nightmares! 'The sleepy inhabitants of Milburn haven't stirred for nigh on 200 years...right up until the evilly enticing Eva returned to remind her favourite 'boys' that their prolonged absence only made her hateful black heart grow ever colder!'