Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected May 4 as the Blu-ray release date for writer/director Adam Stovall’s debut film, A Ghost Waits.
Filmed in glorious black and white, this 2020 production gobbled-up Best Picture honors at both the London FrightFest Film Festival and the Screamfest Horror Film Festival this past year, with newcomer Adam Stovall capturing Best Director wins at these venues as well. Quite the feat for an indie filmmaker’s first feature film.
A sad-sack “handyman” by the name of Jack (MacLeod Andrews — Doctor Sleep, Split, The Siren, etc.) wouldn’t have any luck at all if it were not for his bad luck of late. Forced to evacuate his apartment because of cockroaches, he lands a “dream” job of renovating a house — a house where the tenants leave as quickly as they arrive. He’s asked to just check it out, see what gives and he’s welcome to stay there until the movers arrive and haul off the stuff that has been abandoned by former tenants.
At first, he keeps busy by straightening things up, cleaning a bid, fixing a few things and then settles in for a good night’s sleep. This sort-of-a-dream job turns quickly into a nightmare of slamming doors and things that literally go bump in the night … he has discovered, first hand, why the tenants are leaving so quickly.
He meets Muriel (Natalie Walker … in her film debut), a ghost, but not just any ghost, she’s a hired hand — yes, there are actually ghosts who are hired to “structure hauntings” — but once Jack knows the “MacGuffin,” he becomes comfortable with her presence. And as time goes by, he falls in love with her.
But how does this relationship work? Sorry, not giving away the twist … just join the haunting on May 4 with Arrow’s Blu-ray debut of A Ghost Waits to find out. We will say, this is quite an impressive debut effort on the part of filmmaker Adam Stovall.
Bonus features includes three commentary options, one featuring Stovall, the second with Stovall and Andrews and the third with unspecified “cast and crew” members. There are outtakes, a series of eight video sessions with cast and crew members, a Q&A session from FrightFest and the featurette titled, “Humanity and the Afterlife in A Ghost Waits.”
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