Movie Reviews for Writers: An American Ghost Story

Oh, look! It’s another movie in which a writer decides to stay in a haunted house for inspiration. Okay, sarcasm aside, this was a creepy little story about a writer named Paul who wants to become part of the story of a house where a family was murdered. He wants his own experiences in the house and wants to catalog them in a book. Same old, same old, right? Well, this low-budget gem actually manages to make bedsheet ghosts creepy. I know… Right?!

All that aside, let’s see what Paul and his experiences have to tell us about the writing life. 

About 16 minutes in, Paul and his girlfriend are lying in bed and she asks him point-blank why the story of “this house” is so important to him. He responds blithely that it’s a good time in the industry, paranormal books are hot. But Stella, she’s a smart cookie, and she sees through all that noise right away, so she presses the point. “What’s driving you?” she asks. He kids a little more, but she won’t let go, and eventually, he actually goes deeper and answers honestly: 

“I want to prove to myself that I can actually finish something I start. I’m thirty. I’m a part-time ad writer for a newspaper. My biggest accomplishment has been writing an obituary.” 

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