The photographer Anne (Kelsey Deanne) and her husband Harold Harris (Chase Austin) have just moved to an isolated ranch. Anne has chosen the place to be far from her hateful mother-in-law Martha (Sheril Rodgers) to be distant from her. They welcome their friends Emma (Jessica Willis) and Neil (Jay Bowles) to have dinner together on the first night in the place, and Neil tells a ghost story where a woman stabbed her husband to death in the notorious ranch. During the night, Anna has nightmares and sees the ghost of a woman. Harold, who spends most of the time working in his office to pay the mortgage, believes Anna is disturbed with Neil's story and does not pay much attention to his wife. When Anna is possessed by the ghost and almost stabs him on the bed, he summons Dr. Chambers (Christopher Phipps) that prescribes a tranquilizer to her. He also call his mother to take care of Anna. Is Anna delusional?

"Dead Story" is an awful and predictable ghost story that does not spook. The story and the screenplay are terrible, messy and without explanation or backstory for the ghost's motives. The amateurish performances are laughable. The cinematography is very poor and the edition is ridiculous with abusive use of fade out connecting each take. My vote is two.

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While watching this, I was considering giving it 2 or 3 stars, if only for the slight rights-after-marriage subplot going on. But the ending destroyed all hopes for this nonsensical boring little film. Here's why you shouldn't watch it:

1) It treats the audience like idiots. This means it not only has some very awkward and 'well duh' dialogue, but also abandons any subplots it picks up, resulting in huge disappointments. The ghost wants the husband dead? Abandoned. The husband resents the wife for not having a 9-5? Abandoned. OK how about the wife is a mature independent woman? Abandoned.

2) The scares are stupid. You'll find this out even before the opening credits. One scare consists of a knife disappearing from a sink, and then reappearing again. That's it. The 'ghost' seems to have been adapted from Asian horror, has no backstory, and doesn't fit well in this film.

3) Everything else. Writing, directing, acting, score, cinematography, EVERYTHING is sub-par.

There is NO reason to see this movie, NO interesting twist, NO bizarre monster, NOT even for shits and giggles. Don't encourage such bland productions.

Oops, first minute or just before the opening credits we are already confronted with a murder. But hey, is this CGI blood. Guessed the rest of this flick would be a turn down.

And it was. It's slow and after a while naturally things go wrong in the house but so dull. I mean, things appear next shot disappeared and visa verso and that goes on and on and the wife being alone at the house of course she starts to see things. You know what, her husband doesn't believe her. And the nightmares, it's there that he is killed constantly. Evil mother in law,...

But no effects whatsoever. Lights flickering and a ghost walking around. Seen it all before but better done. The only thing well done is the ghost itself. She does remind me of the girl in The Ring franchise, you know, long black hair before her face.

But at the end, what a perfect title, the story was indeed death.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5