Rating: PG13
Genre:
Mystery
Theatrical Release: 04/22/1988(USA)
Release Date: 09/20/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Scary Moments
Distributor/Studio: MGM
In this supernatural nostalgia piece, a young boy tracks down a murderer with help from the ghosts of a slain little girl and her mother. In a voice-over, grown-up writer
Frankie Scarlatti describes the disturbing events that intruded on his idyllic small-town boyhood. Locked in the school cloakroom by some other boys on Halloween 1962, young
Frankie (
Lukas Haas) encounters the ghost of
Melissa Anne Montgomery (
Joelle Jacobi), who re-enacts her own death by strangulation just before an unseen adult enters the school and tries to do away with
Frankie himself. While recuperating in the care of his widower father (
Alex Rocco),
Frankie conducts some detective work and learns that
Melissa is one of ten children killed over the past decade. Further encounters with the girl's ghost -- and the mournful specter of her mother, the
Lady in White (
Karen Powell) -- do little to help the boy solve the mystery of who killed the kids. Meanwhile, an innocent black maintenance man becomes the scapegoat on which the police hang the killings. However, thanks to the damning but enigmatic evidence
Frankie has discovered, the boy faces imminent danger from the actual killer, who ends up lurking terrifyingly close to home. The sophomore feature from writer/director
Frank LaLoggia, who made his name with the low-budget
horror film
Fear No Evil,
Lady in White starred the young
Lukas Haas halfway between his appearances in
Witness and
Rambling Rose.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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