marilynnewman
I remember seeing it & thinking it was hilarious, then later when films on disk came out, I couldn't remember the name of the stupid movie, I was so frustrated. Then today, I looked up Daryl Hannah & I saw one that was at the right time. And this is it! Hurrah! I think 5.7 is way too LOW. Maybe some people don't get British humor? No, scratch that, lot's of people don't.
cmcastl
This film is generally acknowledged even by its director as a mess - I didn't realise that, according to Neil Jordan, there are the foundations of a better film still in the vault - but watching it over this Halloween I found it better than I remembered it. There are some wonderful, lyrical scenes and settings (f'rinstance, Darryl Hannah's heart-stoppingly beautiful, doomed ghost maiden praying beside a lovely Irish lake before a tree decorated with prayer ribbons in honour of Saint Bridget, a beautiful and memorable scene) but all too many scenes which wouldn't have passed muster in a beginner's class of creative writing. In their prime, Beverly D'Angelo and Darryl Hannah were so hot!The young Darryl Hannah, also in Steve Martin's comedy romance Roxanne only the previous year, was heart-stoppingly gorgeous, as I say. And that bedroom scene between her character and that of Steve Guttenberg - I was astonished I had forgot it - smoked and sizzled; it was positively X-rated!I am glad that the guy gets the girl and that through some magical transformation Hannah's previously doomed madchen doesn't remain a two-hundred year old corpse but was rejuvenated into all her youthful loveliness! Well, true love has it limits!I can't see actor Liam Neeson now, as I am sure many others cannot, without thinking of the tragic death of his wife Natasha Richardson, may she rest in peace.You could see that by 1988 the once gloriously handsome Peter O'Toole had started to lose his looks, ruined not so much by age as hell-raising. Had he lived more soberly, in every sense of the word, he could have been as silvery a silver fox as Cary Grant. But he was still an arch and magisterial presence in the film. I like the line at the end of the film. Happiness makes you better at dancing.
mike48128
Daryl Hannah is dynamite, as are Beverly D'Angelo and Jennifer Tilly. A lot of diaphanous-see-thru dress material here! Peter O'Toole plays a "proper Irish Drunk" with great abandon. Steve Gutenberg is married to Beverly, but she falls in love with a ghost and so does he. It's a typical fake haunted house story at first with a romantic twist. Poor old Peter, not realizing that the castle really is quite haunted, tries to attract "stupid" American tourists to the old place, with fake ghosts and gimmicks. The real ghosts then interact with the living. (Peter's "Mum" has "visits" with her husband's ghost!) A good "old-fashioned fairy tale" ending where upon 4 people find true love as "happily-ever-after" ghosts and humans. It's complicated. A true guilty pleasure. Of course it was a bomb with the critics and box office. It looks and sounds much better on Blu-Ray as a double feature with "Vampire's Kiss" a "stinker" Nicolas Cage film. Not available on it's own. First seen on "free TV" where it was truly cut to pieces and edited for time.
Aaron1375
This movie has a rather standard plot of some old 1970's horror films that I have seen over the years, that of the old house, old building, in this case the old castle where some sort of tragic event took place and the participants of this event are doomed to keep repeating it in the afterlife. And as is the case with those horror movies the event that took place in this movie is the murder of a woman by her jealous husband. This movie is not a horror movie by an stretch of the imagination, it is a comedy. I think some people are visiting the castle and staying there when all the ghost stuff starts happening. It has its moments when it is rather funny as Peter O'Toole is the best member of the cast as far as being funny, then the movie gets right down into being a sort of romance movie. Then the movie ends in a rather unrealistic way, leaving you to think what is up with that. There is also a sex scene that gets rather intense for a PG-13 rated movie so you may want to think twice about letting the kids see this one. I read this movie is not really what the director wanted and it shows as the movie at times plays out in a disjointed fashion. Still, there are laughs to be had and the plot is somewhat good if nothing we have not seen before.
AD
