![]() ![]() The rest of the film, then, deals with the fallout of this decision and strips away everything that was goofy and affable about the movie to that point, leaning hard into what one assumes are meant to be probing questions about death while varying wildly in tone and quality from scene to scene. ![]() ![]() Suffice to say that Wee and Gla opt for extreme measures, devising a dipshit experiment that’s wildly inadvisable, unethical, and nonsensical to anyone who takes the time to think about it for more than a moment. While it’s difficult to discuss what happens without spoiling the mid-movie twist, as it’s so integral to the shift in tone, the thrill of discovery is the one thing Ghost Lab has going for it. These sequences are decidedly rote but mostly fun, playing like any number of found footage ghost stories in miniature, or even recalling the glut of ghost investigator TV series (like Discovery’s Ghost Lab, no relation).īut with little documentable phenomena on hand and a desire to classify the different sorts of ghosts and their behaviors, the doctors find themselves stuck and in need of a new methodology. To that end, they set out with handheld video cameras, exploring the hospital for signs of the paranormal. While their reactions to the apparition couldn’t be more different - Gla is overjoyed while Wee’s beliefs are shaken to the core - it’s not long before the pair have agreed to collaborate on a long experiment to prove the existence of ghosts. At its outset, paranormal skeptic Wee and true believer Gla have an encounter with a ghost in the very haunted hospital in which they practice. That it does so by taking a hard turn toward the melodramatic with honestly brazen stupidity is almost beside the point because, while Ghost Lab is not especially good by most metrics, it is unpredictable and compellingly weird. Ghost Lab works as a bit of weirdo fun for a while, but the film’s playful tone is obliterated halfway through and never recovers.Īt first glance, and indeed for about half of the film’s runtime, Ghost Lab appears to be a rather light horror-comedy about two doctors trying to make contact with the beyond, but it eventually gives way to something much stranger and harder to write off into a genre box. ![]()
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