Ghost Story (1981 film)

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Ghost Story is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed by John Irvin from a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on Peter Straub's 1979 novel, and starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, and Alice Krige. The film follows a group of elderly New England businessmen who gather during a frigid winter storm to recount their complicity in a woman's disappearance and death decades prior after one of them suspects her ghost has been haunting him. This was the final feature film for Astaire, final film for Fairbanks, the final completed film for Douglas and the first film to feature Michael O'Neill. Ghost Story was shot in Woodstock, Vermont; Saratoga Springs, New York; and at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. The film was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on December 18, 1981. It received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, but was a commercial success, and has since developed a moderate cult following.

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