Carrying on from our Halloween themed film contributions, former Leeds Sanctuary Nightlife Editor and all round good egg Georgie Bentinck gives The Daily Scoundrel the low down on 13 Ghosts

Right. I know what I’m about to say is going to be quite controversial, but I actually think Thirteen Ghosts is a bloody scary film, and quite well acted 97% of the time. I consider myself a veteran of scary movies (I thrive on the adrenaline rush, I’m pretty crazy like that), and in my opinion it’s rare to find a film that is both engaging, and makes me hide behind a cushion.

FYI, the film is about Arthur and his two children who inherit his Uncle Cyrus’s estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts, who by the way are TERRIFYING. If that’s not bad enough, the house also happens to be a machine ‘designed by the devil and powered by the dead’ which is the opening to the Eye of Hell – lucky Arthur eh? Some of the hideous creations that the family are hunted by are The Torso, a man with no legs who drags himself along the ground with his bloody hands with his head screaming nearby in cellophane, The Jackal, a rapist in a straightjacket whose head is locked inside a metal cage, and The Juggernaut, the ghost of a serial killer who is seven feet tall and whose body is full of bullet holes. Rather them than me, frankly. And you gotta hand it to ‘em, its pretty original.

Despite some slight lapses in script, and some rambling action towards the end, the acting’s pretty good, especially from Dennis the ghost hunter who makes me laugh and cry during the course of the film. If you want a horror that is guaranteed to gross you out, freak you out, and give you a few genuine scares, then get on your witch’s broom to Blockbusters and rent Thirteen Ghosts.