Lady in White (1988)
Lady in White (1988)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:57:41 | 4,48 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; Hungarian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Hungarian
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:57:41 | 4,48 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; Hungarian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Hungarian
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
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One of those "under-the-radar" little ghost stories that lots of horror fans seem to remember with much fondness is Frank LaLoggia's Lady in White. Released in 1988 to very little fanfare and left to haunt the video stacks and late-night HBO rounds, this quaint PG-13 thriller is as comfy as a mild campfire ghost story. Easily worth recommending to families with kids 12 and up, it's a family-safe and fairly intriguing tale … that perhaps runs about 15 minutes longer than it really needs to.
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Lukas Haas plays a sweet-natured young boy named Frankie. The kid lives with his big brother, widower papa, and two doting Italian grandparents – and with Halloween just around the corner in his sleepy little town of Willowpoint Falls, Frankie is a happy kid indeed.
But there are a few bullies at Frankie's school, and a pair of 'em decide to lure the kid into the school cloak-room – and lock him in for the night. It's there that young Frankie meets the ghostly apparition of a little girl, and he witnesses precisely how she became a ghost in the first place.
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After being rescued from the cloak-room by his dad, Frankie begins to do a little research around town. We soon learn that several young children have gone missing from Willowpoint Falls over the past several years … and Frankie is beginning to piece the puzzle together one clue at a time.
Suffice to say that Lady in White deals with ethereal beings, real-life murderers, and a few roadblock plot divergences along the way. (A subplot involving the school janitor's incarceration for the crimes takes up way too much unnecessary screen-time.) This is not a jolting or jarring little chiller, but a slow-paced and gradually satisfying story that should certainly entertain the aspiring horror junkies you call your kids.
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Looking back in Lady in White nearly fifteen years since I first enjoyed it, I still find much to appreciate here. The setting is small-town Stand By Me-style setting, and Mr. LaLoggia clearly took a lot of pains to re-create the era of his childhood. Costumes, set designs, and props capably recapture the early 60s of Anytown, USA, and while it's obvious that Lady in White was a low-budget affair, the filmmakers were able to use that to their advantage. Lady in White has a cozy and lived-in feeling, not unlike a Norman Rockwell painting or a Hallmark Card. (A Halloween card, of course.)
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While it's true that the movie manages to trudge through a small handful of dry spots, there's enough quality here to overshadow the glitches. Aside from the down-home quaintness and the generally engaging ghost story, Lukas Haas delivers a fantastic performance as our lovable hero; Alex Rocco gets do to some great work as Frankie's depressed-yet-devoted daddy; and if you keep your eyes peeled you'll find some colorful supporting work from the likes of Katherine Helmond, Tom Bower, Len Cariou, and Jared Rushton.
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Mr. LaLoggia has made only three films throughout his cinematic career: One that I don't much care for (1981's Fear No Evil), one I've never seen (1996's Mother), and this solid mini-chiller that comes from the heart. Lady in White is not flashy or hip or particularly original, but it's an example of a filmmaker wanting to share his favorite ghost story … and, all things considered, doing a pretty good job of it.
Lady in White (1988)
Independent filmmaker Frank LaLoggia's (FEAR NO EVIL) long-awaited second feature is an impressive, if overly ambitious, semiautobiographical ghost story that rejects gore in favor of genuine gothic chills.
Surprisingly rich in character, period, and place, LADY IN WHITE begins on Halloween, 1962, as the youngest son of a widower (Alex Rocco), young Frankie (Lukas Haas), is locked in the school cloakroom by pranksters who leave him there for the night. Resigned to his fate, Frankie climbs up on the top shelf and tries to get some sleep. Suddenly he is awakened by the ghost of a little girl (Joelle Jacob) about his age who was murdered in the cloakroom many years before. To his horror, Frankie watches as the murder of the child is reenacted before his eyes. Then, a real man, whose face is obscured, enters the cloakroom. It's the killer, and he has returned to the scene of the crime to remove the girl's hair clip, which fell down the heating duct during the murder so many years before (the school plans to install a new heater the very next day). Unfortunately for Frankie, the intruder notices the boy and tries to strangle him. Frankie survives the attack, and the police soon after arrest a drunken janitor and charge him with the attempted murder of Frankie, suspecting him of being the child killer who has plagued the town for several years. Frankie knows the man is innocent and sets out to find the real killer with the help of the little girl's ghost.
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An intensely personal film, LADY IN WHITE is an incredibly ambitious low-budget effort that attempts to combine a good ghost story with a childhood reminiscence about growing up during the early 1960s. Fortunately, LaLoggia pulls off this unlikely combination, although his narrative is a bit too diffuse at times. Instead of using encounters with ghosts to escape the realities of everyday life, LaLoggia's film is firmly rooted in the real world–child murders, racism, and cruelty share the spotlight here. LaLoggia shares his unique vision with the viewer through an imaginative and innovative visual style that flows skillfully from traditional naturalism into surreal dreamlike fantasies and back again without ever seeming gratuitous or clumsy. A remarkable film.
Lady in White (1988)
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