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Pay the Ghost
2015
· Movie
· 94 min
F
MEANRANK
41/100
Every rating
10–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 10, highest is Google on 76. Critics average 16, everyone else 46.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy vanishes during a Halloween carnival, his disappearance marked by a strange phrase whispered to his father: "Pay the ghost." A year later, the father is haunted by supernatural occurrences connected to old New York legends. He must unravel the cryptic clue to discover what took his son and how to get him back.
Details
- Director
- Uli Edel
- Writer
- Daniel Kay
- Released
- 16 September 2015
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Box office
- $2.2M
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