Review – Lady in White

Back in film school one of the things we learned in Screenwriting 101 was “never make kids the main characters of movies.” Clearly there are exceptions to the rule, but this particular picture isn’t one of them. The plot is sort of a haunted version of To Kill a Mockingbird, pitting a precocious young boy against a serial child killer. This plays sort of like a Stephen King story, particularly because it blends elements in ways that might have worked in print but don’t really fly on the screen. The production also suffers from technical drawbacks (continuity issues, cheap bluescreen work, and so on). Problems aside, however, it isn’t the worst ghost story I’ve ever seen. Mildly amusing