Ghost Story
1981
The Time Has Come to Tell the Tale
Directed by John Irvin
User Rating
Intensity
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
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- Director
- John Irvin
- Written by
- Peter Straub, Lawrence D. Cohen
- Produced by
- Burt Weissbourd
- Composer
- Philippe Sarde
- Cinematographer
- Jack Cardiff
- Editor
- Tom Rolf
- Makeup FX
- Carl Fullerton, Rick Baker
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Language
- English
- Rating
- R
- Also known as
- Ghost Story - UR
- TMDB
- 6.0/10 (176 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 28% Rotten
- IMDb
- 6.3/10 (10,353 votes)
Awards
- NominatedSaturn Award— Best Horror Film(1982)
Cast
Fred Astaire
Ricky Hawthorne
Melvyn Douglas
Dr. John Jaffrey
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Edward Charles Wanderley
John Houseman
Sears James
Craig Wasson
Don Wanderley / David Wanderley
Patricia Neal
Stella Hawthorne
Alice Krige
Eva Galli / Alma Mobley
Jacqueline Brookes
Milly
Miguel Fernandes
Gregory Bates
Lance Holcomb
Fenny Bates
Mark Chamberlin
Young John Jaffrey
Tim Choate
Young Ricky Hawthorne
Kurt Johnson
Young Edward Wanderley
Ken Olin
Young Sears James
Brad Sullivan
Sheriff Hardesty
Michael O'Neill
Churchill
Guy Boyd
Omar Norris
Robert Burr
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