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Writerly Wednesday with Tasha

June 22, 2016 Deb Comments 0 Comment

Writerly Wednesday with Tasha Duncan-Drake Today I’m hanging out with the incomparable Tasha Duncan-Drake, prolific author and co-founder of Wittegenpress. She graciously hosted me for a joint discussion on a Korean ghost film called Tale of Two Sisters from Director Kim Jee-woon. I first met Tasha through Blogging A to Z when we were happy to discover we both loved ghost film and fiction. I had a great time doing Blogging A to Z this year and met interesting people….

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Film Review: The Awakening

October 30, 2014 Deb Comments 8 comments

Peril on the Screen: The Awakening Thanks to a recommendation by reader Joanna over at DanseNoir, I watched the ghost movie The Awakening. The Awakening features a story within a story, so there’s a mystery aspect as well as a supernatural one. As the movie opens, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) exposes a fraudulent seance followed by the dramatic arrests of the perpetrators. Britain is reeling from the momentous losses of World War I and the flu pandemic, and grieving…

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Ghost movie review: Haunted

January 1, 2014 Deb Comments 2 comments

So, New Year’s Eve, and I found myself alone in the house. I ask you, what better way to ring in the new year than to immerse oneself in a ghost movie? Maybe the ghost can be a metaphor for the death of the old year. Or maybe that’s reaching. At any rate, I rented Haunted, a 1995 movie with a starring cast including Sir John Gielgud, Kate Beckinsale, and Aidan Quinn. Professor Ash, a ghost debunker, journeys to the…

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Ghost Movie Review: Ghost Town

September 3, 2013 Deb Comments 8 comments

Thank you, Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings, for once again hosting R.I.P! Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni and Greg Kinnear, directed by David Koepp. I was visiting my daughter and son-in-law in Seattle, and we decided to watch a scifi movie. Of all things, our search netted Ghost Town. (Such is the difficulty with the ghost genre—there is no ghost genre; you find ghosts when you least expect them.) Anyhow, ghost aficionado that I am, I jumped at…

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A Stir of Echoes: Book or Movie?

August 29, 2013 Deb Comments 6 comments

I read Richard Matheson’s A Stir of Echoes as one of my selections for Bout of Books. It’s been on my list for a long time, so it felt good to put it behind me, and the Bout of Books read-a-thon provided the perfect opportunity. Finding A Stir of Echoes, however, proved a challenge as I searched one library and three bookstores and finally had to order it. When a party stunt awakens Tom Wallace’s psychic abilities, he must learn…

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Ghost Lessons: 5 Things the Dead Teach Us About Life

September 21, 2012 Deb Comments 0 Comment

5 Things the Dead Teach Us About Life Today I’m so excited to participate in my very first guest post over at Melissa’s Midnight Musings. Melissa made it so easy for me to chat about one of my favorite topics. I hope you’ll join us by clicking here. And while you’re visiting, be sure to sign up for a cool giveaway!

Ghost Movie Review: The Woman in Black

February 6, 2012 Deb Comments 4 comments

The night finally arrived when I set out accompanied by daughter Manda to view the movie The Woman in Black. We found ourselves in a state of high excitement. We were not alone. The parking lot was packed. The theater was filled to capacity. I had predicted, after reviewing Susan Hill‘s novel The Woman in Black in an earlier post, that I might prefer the movie version of this story. It’s a close call, but I think I do prefer…

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