Lady in White

A strange melange of the good, the bad, and the self-indulgent, this ranges from trite to pretentious to downright brilliant. It is at its best when LaLoggia applies a Val Lewton-like approach to his intricate fright material, powerfully conveying, via evocative writing and inspired imagery, a feeling of pervasive menace rolling just beneath the surface of Haas's small-town life -- a life outwardly normal but for death's frequent, irrational intrusions.

The beginning sets up something promising, with the young protagonist being trapped inside after dark (on Halloween) with a ghost, but then it decides to have a heavy-handed moral about racism in the 60's while still trying to be a spooky ghost movie & none of it fits together at all. It's too long, too self-indulgent, too boring, & lacking in any characters worth caring about. I genuinely couldn't tell what it was trying to be- horror movie, murder mystery, what? It fails at being all of them.