Ghost Stories

‘Ghost Stories’ made with investment from Screen Yorkshire’s Yorkshire Content Fund

GHOST STORIES is out now across the UK for digital download, on DVD and Blu-Ray, following a successful run of festival screenings including SXSW & BFI London Film Festival. The supernatural thriller is co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (writer The League of Gentlemen, Psychobitches) and Andy Nyman (The Commuter, Severance) who co-wrote and directed the original stage production. GHOST STORIES filmed in Yorkshire and is produced by Warp Films with investment from Screen Yorkshire.

Ghost Stories © Warp Films

Andy Nyman also leads the cast, reprising his role as Professor Goodman alongside Paul Whitehouse (Alice in Wonderland, ‘Harry & Paul’, ‘The Fast Show’), Alex Lawther (‘Black Mirror’, Old Boys, The Imitation Game) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit franchise, ‘Fargo’, ‘Sherlock’).

The film is produced for Warp Films by Claire Jones (Sightseers, Kill List), and Robin Gutch (’71, Kill List) and is backed by Catalyst Global Media and Screen Yorkshire. Altitude Film Sales is handling worldwide sales. Lionsgate will distribute the film in the UK/Eire.

‘Ghost Stories’ Filming Locations

Ghost Stories filmed at locations including; Leeds (City Varieties, Harehills Labour Club, Chapel Allerton, Holbeck) Saltaire, Harewood Estate, Harrogate and Hornsea in 2016.

Professor Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman), psychologist & arch-sceptic, has his rationality tested to the hilt when he stumbles across a long lost file containing details of three cases of terrifying ‘hauntings’. Shaken by what he has read, Goodman embarks upon a quest to find rational explanations for these stories.

Andy Nyman as Professor Goodman in Ghost Stories © Warp Films

Filming locations included Hornsea on the Yorkshire coast (pictured above)

As Goodman investigates, he meets three tormented people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last. Security guard Tony Matthews (Paul Whitehouse) spent a night in an empty warehouse that has haunted him for years. Teenager Simon Rifkind (Alex Lawther) took a late night drive in a forest that has rendered him unable to sleep and finally Mike Priddle (Martin Freeman) a brash ‘money man’ who has had his world view shaken to the core by the unquiet spirits that apparently inhabit his otherwise perfect house.

As Goodman digs into their stories, his carefully maintained rational world starts to dissolve around him – a trick of the mind or are darker forces at work? Gradually Goodman is drawn towards the unearthing of a long-buried secret that will pull his life – and everything he thought he knew – apart.

The stage production of Ghost Stories broke box office records when it opened at the Liverpool Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith before transferring to the West End’s Duke of York’s theatre and later playing Toronto, Moscow, Sydney, Shanghai and Lima, Peru.

News and reviews…..

SLASH FILM: ‘Ghost Stories’ Review: A Bonkers and Bloody Brilliant Existential Mystery [SXSW]

DREAD CENTRAL: A brooding, atmospheric, and deeply unsettling film, Ghost Stories will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the year. This is British horror at its finest.

GUARDIAN: Martin Freeman and Paul Whitehouse shine in dreamlike spookfest

SCREENDAILY: An accomplished cinematic re-working of the hit British supernatural stage play

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: A classy, clammy compendium of vintage creepy thrills