After being Santa Claus restless nightDavid Harbour, actor stranger things (it’s cop Jim Hopper) is now a ghost in We Have a Ghost, a comedy that becomes a drama, albeit not too serious, and which Netflix has just released.
The film is directed by Christopher Landon (both happy dying day, Freaky: This body is for the kill, Paranormal Activity: The Mark), who has a background in the horror-comedy genre.
And so the film begins, one night with a family on the run from a multi-story house in a remote Chicago neighborhood. A year goes by and the Presleys (dad, mom and their two African-American children) settle down, but Mel, the mother, is suspicious because of the low price he’s been asked to buy the house.
Frank, what is it? anthony mackieMarvel’s new Captain America, wants to start over, which his youngest son, Kevin, a guitar enthusiast, is fed up with.
Until Ernest arrives. It’s the somewhat disoriented ghost, who lives in the attic and tries to scare Kevin by waving his arms and gutturally screaming. Kevin’s response is to laugh and record it on his cell phone.
“My life is 10,000 times more terrifying,” he tells her. Well, they become friends, and the teenager will try to help the ghost who can only speak but roar and howl, to remember why he is trapped there, in that house.
Because Ernest, as the name says on his faded old bowling shirt, can’t remember if he died there, or how he died, or whatever.
Viral videos and media circus
That video that Kevin recorded, and others, when uploaded to the Internet, obviously go viral and the media circus ignites, as well as the challenges of TikTok: you have to walk through walls, like Ernest does.
“I only need to win once,” Frank tells his wife, who wants nothing to do with it. “We’ll be the black Kardashians,” Kevin tries to convince.
AS we have a ghost is a family horror comedy, Kevin will have his romantic interest in a neighbor of the “house of death” (Joy, Asian, who delivers the best jokes about racism).
And Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus), such as Judy Romano, the medium of West Bay, and Tig Notaro (the army of the dead), such as Dr. Monroe, who works with the CIA. Because everything will become more and more complicated.
With winks and/or mentions of The exorcist (remember Regan, walking like a spider on the stairs?), many horror movies (“We’re moving, we’re not going to be like those white families that stay in horror movies,” says Mel, the wife). or, of course, Ghostthe film becomes bearable until there are 20 minutes left to get to the result.
The twist, well, that’s a little far-fetched.
Is that the film does not decide to play entirely comedy, although it has several dialogues and phrases that aim and hit the target, but within the familiar genre, but with situations not so suitable for all audiences: “We can’t touch you, and you do Like the strippers,” Kevin says to Ernest, becomes a bit rhetorical, like the dramatic complications, more than anything else, of interfamilial relationships, including Frank’s reflective monologue.
The music that accompanies the long end credits is more horror film than comedy, for example. So composer Bear McCreary understood it (the series walking Dead and the most recent The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). The thing is we have a ghost It is like an ambiguous being, who inhabits both worlds and cannot decide whether to stay or leave.
“We Have a Ghost”
Comedy. United States, 2023. Original title: “We Have a Ghost”. 127′, SA 13. From: Christopher Landon. With: David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Erica Ash, Jennifer Coolidge, Tig Notaro. Available in: Netflix.
Source: Clarin
