These days ghost stories tend to be of the slasher variety.  This one is not.  It is rather an old-fashioned ghost story (though the references in the press kit to Hitchcock seem a little too ambitious) which most audiences could sit through.  It has the romantic touches as well.

However, there is a nice twist at the end (shades of Gaslight and some of those golden oldies with tormented heroines) and the ghost story we think we are watching is not the ghost story we should be concentrating on!  (that doesn’t reveal the twist or the ending).

Demi Moore came over to the UK to star as an award-winning best-seller novelist (though she does her own stunts with typing on an old typewriter which would mean at her slow rate producing one novel every ten years!).  She carries the film quite well, a bereaved mother who retreats to the Scottish coast and meets a charming lighthouse keeper.  Then the complications come as her best friend, her husband and her doctor are all concerned about her, let alone the puzzled locals.

The film is beautiful to look at, the Welsh coast standing in for Scotland.  It is not a swift-paced thriller.  Rather, it ambles along most of the time, an easy entertainment, a kind of neo Daphne Du Maurier drama.

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