Interesteg
What makes it different from others?
Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
Protraph
Lack of good storyline.
Rainey Dawn
Generally speaking, I love this type of film: slow, Gothic, ghosts, mystery and horror but this one is just OK - not nearly as good as I thought it would be. I'm extra shocked because Barbara Steele is in the film - and I like her a lot.Dr. John Hichcock is in a wheelchair is married to the lovely Margaret. Margaret and Dr. Charles Livingstone are having an affair and Dr. Hichcock knows it. Dr. Hichcock also knows he's being poisoned and even asks his personal doctor, Dr. Charles Livingstone, to give him the antidote. One day Dr. Livingstone and Margaret decides they want John dead so Charles refuses to give John the antidote after his daily poisoning. Margaret and Charles are now happy until they see the "ghost" of John. Is it John's ghost or is John still alive? It's s-l-o-w-l-y paced until the ending. As I said earlier, I like slow films but this one is just OK - and extremely slow.4/10
morrison-dylan-fan
Having struggled for a number of months to find a good DVD edition for Riccardo Freda's first Gothic Horror collaboration with Barbara Steele, (The Terror of Dr.Hichcock) I was relived to discover on Amazon that Alpha Video had brought out their second,and final movie:The Ghost out on a DVD that was being sold at a super-cheap price.Sadly,about 5 minutes after the Alpha DVD had arrived in the post,I realised that the reason the DVD was being sold at such a cheap price,was possibly connected to the picture quality looking like it had been chucked into a potato masher.Pulling my self backup from Alpha's disappointment,I decided to go on an extensive search in the hope of finding Freda's Technicolour glowing ghost. The plot:Scotland-1910: Suffering from a crippling illness,Dr.John Hichcock relies on the good will of his wife Margaret and the advance medical protocol performed on him by Dr. Charles Livingston,who along with giving John tiny doses of poison,in order for it to loosen up his bones and muscles,also takes part in the séances that John holds with Margaret and their house keeper Catherine Wood.Unbeknowst to John,Margaret and Charles have become passionate lovers,who are sick of the very sight of him.Taking part in a rather dangerous séance,Margaret convinces Charles that now is the perfect time to give John a little bit too much poison.Making sure to cover their tracks,the couple prepare for the hearing of the will,which will lead to them receiving all of the cash that "kind,old" Dr.Hichcock has left for them.Expecting to hear music to their ears,John and Margaret are instead given an unexpected surprise,when they are told that Hichcock has put all of the "will money" into a safe that only he has the key to.Franticly searching round for the key,Charles and Margaret begin to fear that the séances John held may have left to something else being left behind from "the other side" with his will… View on the film:With Ernesto Gastaldi's plodding screenplay being the main thing that led to The Terror of Dr.Hichcock being a huge disappointment,I was thrilled to discover that director Riccardo Freda had joined up with Oreste Biancoil to write the screenplay for this far superior film.Keeping the movie set in Hichcock's atmospheric castle,Freda and Biancoil impressively transform the movie gradually from a chilling Gothic Horror filled with "empty" wheelchairs moving around and a key which seems to always disappear,into a dark Film Noir as cracks begin to appear in Margaret and Charles's passionate lives over if they can truly trust,that neither of them will leave the other empty handed and run off with Hichcock's wealth all for themselves.For his terrificly stylised directing,Freda shows a surprisingly restrained approach to the Technicolour aspect of the movie,by filling the castle with mist and shadow to build up a shivering mood,that is ripped apart by bursting abrasive colours that Freda uses to give the movies most sinister moments a vibrant twist.Featuring in almost every single scene of the movie,Barbara Steele gives a truly tremendous performance that causes the viewer to become completely transfixed on the film,thanks to Steele being able to perfectly mix the movie's deep in the eyes Gothic terror,with a ravishing,double crossing side that leads to this being an appointment with Dr.Hichcock that you will happily remember.
MartinHafer
Unlike many of Steele's other horror films, this one is in color--and the copy is in generally nice condition. As for the language, it's all dubbed into English and there were no captions. I assume it's been dubbed into other languages as well."The Ghost" is another Italian-made horror film starring Barbara Steele--everyone's favorite 1960s horror queen. The film begins with a rich doctor in intense pain and living out his final days through the use of two poisons which somehow work together to keep him alive. However, his wife (Steele) and her boyfriend (the guy's doctor) can't wait for him to die...so they help the process! However, after the husband's demise, they start to wonder if he's dead or if his spirit has somehow returned. They also discover that much of his fortune is hidden. And, considering that the dead man did experiments concerning the netherworld, you assume he has indeed come back to his 'loving wife'.So is it worth seeing? Well, the film manages to have a nice spooky Gothic look. The story idea also is pretty good and has many creepy moments. I didn't particularly get some of Steele's actions near the end of the film but the overall film is pretty good--and it ended with some nice twists.
bkoganbing
The Ghost finds Barbara Steele and Peter Baldwin as the lady of the house and the live in physician doing a whole lot of kanoodling right under the nose of husband Elio Jotte. The husband has been lingering on death's door for some time and Steele and Baldwin would just like it if were to go just do it quickly so they can start spending the fortune Jotte's alleged to have left.There does come a point when the two decide to hurry things a long and even raise a few eyebrows among the neighborhood when Baldwin continues to live at the estate. But when all kinds of things start to go bump in the night the relationship starts to come apart at the seams. Housekeeper Harriet Medin who is the only other person living in the estate is loyal to her late master and makes no attempt to conceal her disgust with Steele and Baldwin.The Ghost is an Italian production with foreign players from the USA and UK and is not too bad in the thrill department. It won't give any competition to Alfred Hitchcock. Might however for William Caste.
