Review of The Ghosting

A Jack Nicholson look-a-like and his family become caretakers of an empty church but not before they find out that a man murdered his wife and two kids there several years before. Coincidentally, the family views the church the same night the crazed killer breaks out of an insane asylum. Even more coincidentally, dad runs him over on the way to meet his family and secretly buries the corpse. So now dad, a troubled Vietnam vet, must endure the ghost of the maniac taunting him in addition to dealing with his family. This is one rough ride. It is made even worse by the fact it runs nearly 2 hours, which is 16 hours in bad movie time. The films "highlights" include the mom forcing her crippled daughter to walk (and cradling her after she falls) and when the dad says he couldn't get a job as a short order cook because he had to take a lie detector test (!). Lowlights include just about everything else from a attack by a phony dinosaur to almost all of the dialogue. Filmed in Spokane, this is the only feature film credit by one Walt Hefner (thank goodness!). Lead Charlie Shores looks like a cross between the "new" Dean Koontz and a thin Jack Nicholson (no doubt a factor in his casting). Check out the trailer at the film's official website if you dare: