Ep. 52 - Halloween "Spooktacular" - The Witch v. A Ghost Story with Alex Robertson, David Johnson, DMD & Roseanne Caputi

This week on Fabulous Film & Friends,  we’re celebrating Halloween by following last episode’s duel between Robert Eggers’ The Northman and David Lowry’s The Green Knight  by a looking at and comparing two low-budget genre creepfests from these two up-and-coming masters of modern cinema:  2015’s The Witch starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, and three unsung masters of terror Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson with 2017’s A Ghost Story starring Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara and Will Oldham. 

My guests this week are series regulars Dr. David Johnson and Roseanne Caputi and a hearty werewolf howl and welcome back to everybody’s favorite religious prude Gordon Alex Roberstson . 

Once again, the synopses to both films are simple: 

In The Witch, a Puritan family cast out of their colony tries to make it on their own, feebly attempting to grow corn in the New England wilderness while haunted and vexed by a nearby witch.  

A Ghost Story, conversely, tells the story of musician killed in a car accident who awakens from death as an old Halloween costume styled ghost in a long sheet with eye holes. As a ghost, the musician stays in his house in a time loop, watching and haunting his girlfriend or wife, it’s never specified, and a host of other tenants or home dwellers from the past, the present and into the future.  

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