Ghost Fever (1987)

I remember my mother renting me this movie when I was just a tyke.I haven't seen it since I was around kindergarten aged I guess, but the movie made a lasting impression. I remember a big antebellum mansion, and the slave torture device that made Sherman Helmsly walk funny,I loved it. I have to have had my mother rent me this movie a dozen times or more. This is one of those rare low budget movies that make scrounging threw the discount bin worth it. Now that I know the title I am going to have to go searching for the DVD. I loved ghost stories and this was right up my alley. I had been looking for the title of this movie for ages. IMDb is just great!

Sometimes a film can be so bad, it's totally enjoyable. God bless the abstraction of a director, Alan Smithee. The real director of the film "Ghost Fever", Lee Madden was too ashamed to take credit for this disasterpiece. It is a celebration in all that is bad in movies, but when it was on rotation in 1999, I couldn't take my pre-teen eyes off of it! There was an appealing creepiness about how truly awful the movie is. I've been waiting for it to air since, but I haven't been able to experience the wonder of a film so bad I ponder how it was ever produced. Sherman Helmsley keeps his head up through it all. You have to respect a man that gives it all in a film he must have known was a complete mess. His comedic performance is nothing new, but he is a good guide through a tangled web of a story that becomes completely lost in horrible direction. Look for the Mummy scene. It is a genuinely disturbing image that was supposed to be played for laughs. My question is, why didn't this movie have a cult following? Am I the only person on Earth who loves this messy treat?

This movie is só incredibly unfunny it makes any man want to cry, the cliché are put on thicker than 5-year old peanut butter and in such a way that it actually sucks humour out of your heart, every single joke was badly timed and wouldn't have been funny if it were timed correctly.Don't see this movie, there's a real chance you'll never be able to enjoy going to comedies again...ever.

This movie is a pretty good movie, despite its pour visual effects. When I was little my brother and I would watch this movie all the time. It was scary and also funny to us - - at the time that is. It is still a pretty funny movie, but just not as scary. I suggest that if you have a free weekend you rent this movie. It will not disappoint you.