Storyline
One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Cole is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, 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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Cast
Nicolas Cage, Stephen McHattie, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Lyriq Bent, Omar Alex Khan, Sarah Wayne Callies, Darren Frost, Mark Irvingsen, Juan Carlos Velis, Milan Carmona, Jack Fulton, Veronica Ferres, Lauren Beatty, Kalie Hunter, Susannah Hoffmann, Liam Buckle, Sofia Wells, Aidan Wojtak-Hissong, Caroline Gillis, Janet Lo, Jamillah Ross, Alex Mallari Jr., Rosalba Martinni, Erin Boyes, Iain Becking, Leah Madison Jung, Matteo Ghazni, Breeanna Booth, Ho Chow, Jaden Estee, Eric Haber, Katerina Kerfoot, Elena Khan, Elizabeth Jeanne le Roux, Fabio Lusvarghi, Benjamin Wiebe
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Reviews
42
The movie’s B-movie flimsiness is pervasive, and paired with an overall lack of B-movie flair, though director Uli Edel makes some game yarn-spinning attempts.
38
In Pay the Ghost, Nicolas Cage investigates a supernatural abduction, but has no solution for the maggot-eaten zombie that is his undead career.
30
Village Voice
The script doesn't know the difference between being something scary and pointing at something scary. It's less a film than a series of imitative gestures, a bunch of horror signifiers pointing to nothing.
30
Tidbits that would make the film interesting have been squandered. Instead, we get the standard-issue haunted-house fodder. The ghosts manifest in so many different ways that it seems like the movie is grasping for straws.
30
Dan Kay’s filament-thin story, accessorized with flapping vultures and disturbing graffiti, relies entirely on Mr. Cage’s desperate-dad energy.
