2008 · family · fantasy · horror
Mostly Ghostly
Directed by Rich Correll1h 33m2008
Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance, they'll help him transform from a social nobody to the most popular kid in school.
Our read: Mostly Ghostly (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · fantasy · horror entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
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