So in the name of transparency, I feel it’s imperative I point out that it might be my predilection for plot holes and cliches that gripped me in the indie horror film He’s Out There. I’m not much into horror films, opting instead for the unintended comedy of Lifetime thrillers, where the fright lies in the woodenness of the actors as opposed to the woods. Ghost Stories is available on Hulu or to rent in the US and to rent in the UK It’s the kind of strange old scary movie that you might accidentally encounter on late-night TV and then stay with it, enthralled and creeped out to the very end. There’s a tremendous atmosphere, a dream-like oddness and offness to everything. The point is to laugh, of course, but there is something genuinely unsettling in the creepy, zero-oxygen interiors with putrefying light that Nyman and Dyson conjure up – the desolate old empty pub, the deserted caravan park, the blank modern church. It’s a barnstorming, creepy and bizarre collection of stories, made individually stranger and more potent by the way the film allows you to notice weird connections between them. Now this very man reappears, confessing to Nyman he is haunted by three insoluble ghostly cases which caused him to doubt his rationalist “faith”.

Nyman himself plays a celebrity and paranormal debunker whose mission is to expose hoaxes and frauds he was inspired as a child by a TV personality who was a campaigner in much the same way but vanished at the height of his 70s fame. The black horror comedy Ghost Stories is anthology of supernatural tales in the tradition of Ealing’s Dead Of Night – adapted by its directors Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson from their hit London stage show.

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