Pay the Ghost

2015 • 94 minutes
4.0
676 reviews
10%
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About this movie

Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) stars in this intense and chilling thriller about one man’s desperate search for his missing child. One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Lawford (Cage) is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife (Sarah Wayne Callies, The Walking Dead), he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son—and, in doing so, he unearths a legend that refuses to remain buried in the past.

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4.0
676 reviews
A Google user
October 29, 2016
An okay, detective, mystery horror type movie. I don't like long, boring, supernatural plots but, thankfully this movie didn't spend too much time dwelling on that. Good movie flow from beginning to end.
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Alexander Zuckerman
April 29, 2020
This was shockingly good! I thought with all the negative reviews this movie got it would be a fun bad movie to watch but I ended up really enjoying it. In fact I liked it so much I bought the book it's based on and read that too. And the book was pretty good too they did swap the lead characters thou. In the movie the dad is the main character, when in the book the mom as the main character. But it was still the same story so I really enjoyed both the movie and the book.
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Niko Web
October 6, 2015
Its good, not great. It's obvious the film didn't get the financing it deserved. Some characters are under developed and some are pointless. What the hell happened to the detective? What happened to the other 2 kids, 1 was Chinese but we know absolutely nothing of the 3rd one. Some of the characters that die are pointless as their deaths don't tie into the story and legend behind it all. The kids didn't kill their captor so why the last scene? Mindless but worth the rental only.
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