Ghost Light (2025) Review
Ghost Light (2025) Review
Actress Marion Neal finds herself embroiled in a legal battle over the rights to her playhouse. But as strange occurrences begin to unfold, a hidden truth gradually emerges, revealing an intricate web of conspiracies, deception and villainous agendas.
Written and directed by Amir Faress, Ghost Light is, for much of its relatively brief runtime, more concerned with courtroom wrangling than supernatural scares. The central legal battle takes precedence, with the film only really turning up the spooky dial during its latter stages, as the various pieces begin to fall into place.
The sombre tone works well, while the performances are perfectly adequate for a low-budget production, and, importantly, I was never bored. The film also saves a twist for its final moments that encourages you to reconsider some of what came before, which is always a welcome touch.
Is Ghost Light a must-watch? No. But if you happen upon it and decide to settle in for its eighty-minute runtime, you’ll find a perfectly serviceable thriller that ticks the necessary boxes and passes the time without causing any major offence.
I’d still argue that Ghost Light is more of a legal thriller than a supernatural horror, but those looking for the spooky stuff shouldn’t give up on it too early. Stick with it and, eventually, the ghosts come out to play.
