In the film “Don’t F* With Ghosts” Stu Stone and Adam Rodness are two Canadian filmmakers without commercial success.
They visit studio executives to pitch their “Bigfoot” project but instead are steered towards producing a film that will prove there are ghosts as after all that is where the international interest is according to the studio executives.
Stu and Adam travel to Winnipeg for filming. They assemble a production crew and in their “studio bus”, a school bus adorned with their pictures, they film in various locations using mediums, ghost hunters and fortune tellers. With a set of questionable sightings and weak possibilities they are encountering a dead end despite bringing in wrestling champion Colt Boom Boom Cabana. Stu quips you really know who your good friends are when they travel to Winnipeg, the murder capital of Canada, to help locate ghosts!
Somewhat dispirited Stu and Adam locate a haunted house in Selkirk, Manitoba in which a berserk father killed his wife and three children then hung himself. Desperation hatches a quasi-fraudulent inspired manufacture of a ghosts so effective it even frightens Stu and Adam. Give the audience what it wants even if fabricated.
Heavy elements of satire on indie film production, studio executives, mediums and the ghost hunter genre of film and television.
Low impact humour particularly between Stu and Adam continually exchanging barbs between themselves often akin to comedic one liners. One hilarious encounter involving mushroom tea (not the type you make an omelet with) and Steve the Spiritual Sherpa frenetically and brilliantly portrayed by Tony Nappo.
Perhaps one can venture so far as to say a spoof on ghost chasers.
This would be ideal as a double feature with “Rocky Horror Picture Show” in a lighthearted Halloween celebration.
Canadian theatrical release starts 10October2024.
RKS 2024 Film Rating: 81/100.
Directed by Stu Stone.
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