[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Scared Stiff (1987)

A pop singer (Mary Page Keller) begins getting vivid nightmares when she and her psychiatrist boyfriend (Andrew Stevens) along with her young son move into an old plantation house which was formerly owned by a fearsome slave owner.

An eighties ghost story which just about remains on the right side of interesting thanks to Stevens becoming creepier throughout as the film sort of meanders by means of some weird happenings in that vaguely fun way to a great big practical FX gloopy climax. The slow pace during the first hour is long forgotten when you see a character unzip their head to reveal their bloody gray brain for example.

A film that isn't as good as it could be perhaps but also better than it could have been. However the poster art below sums up the films final twenty minutes nicely.

The Arrow Blu-ray looks gorgeous in outdoor scenes and has a suitably grainy tv like sparkle to it when indoors.