You can see the ghosts with special glasses, which the cast is issued when they see them, we see them, usually in shots so maddeningly brief we don't get a good look. The shatterproof glass cages, we learn, are engraved with ''containment spells'' that keep the ghosts inside. What intrigues me is that this house, its shrieks of terror and its moving walls attract no attention at all from the neighbors, even late in the film when truly alarming things are happening. Exterior steel panels slide up and down, revealing glass container-cages inside which hold the 12 invisible ghosts, which Cyrus needed in order to. They're joined by a wise-cracking ghostbuster named Rafkin ( Matthew Lillard) and Kalina ( Embeth Davidtz), a paranormal who knows a lot about Uncle Cyrus, his research, and how the house works.Īnd does it ever work. He leaves his house to his nephew Arthur ( Tony Shalhoub), whose wife has tragically died Arthur moves in with his son Bobby (Alec Roberts), his daughter Kathy ( Shannon Elizabeth) and Maggie the nanny (Rah Digga). Murray Abraham), whose researches into the occult included a medieval manuscript allegedly dictated by the devil. (The 13th ghost is, of course, the key to the mystery.) The screenplay, inspired by the 1960 William Castle film of the same name but written in a zone all its own, involves dead Uncle Cyrus (F. It mostly takes place inside a house that is one of the best-looking horror sets I've seen, and the 12 ghosts look like pages from Heavy Metal, brought to grotesque life. This is a movie that is all craft and little art. When the action pauses long enough for us to see what's on the screen, we have to admire the art direction, special effects, costumes and makeup.

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