Neil Jordan, unbending a bit after Mona Lisa and A Company of Wolves, defends a genuinely haunted Irish castle against capitalist American plans to transport it to Malibu as a theme park; or in other words, defends Old World values against New ones. ("No respectable ghost would ever live in California.") But the special-effects men -- representatives of New World values for sure -- have the last laugh. Assuming anyone, that is, can get a laugh out of it. (Who can laugh anymore at a bed sliding down the stairs? at a talking horse? at a drunken Peter O'Toole?) The static elements of the production -- sets, costumes, lighting -- deserved better. Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly D'Angelo, Liam Neeson. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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