High Spirits (1988): All I Wanted Was to Be Happily Useless
Beth and Michelle return to the delightfully incoherent haunting of High Spirits, Neil Jordan’s 1988 mixture of fake ghosts, real ghosts, crumbling castles, romantic entanglements, suicidal ideation, ghostly edging, and Peter O’Toole performing every emotion as though Shakespeare might be watching. The movie offers very little logic, but an extraordinary amount of atmosphere, semi-nudity, antiquated effects, and committed overacting.
Peter Plunkett stages a haunting because he believes he has failed his family, his employees, and the generations who entrusted him with the castle. Jack arrives…
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