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Released
1981 · FILM

Ghost Story

The Time Has Come to Tell the Tale

Directed by
Runtime
110 min
DramaHorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Four elderly men, members of the Chowder Society, are bound by a dark secret they have kept for 50 years. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies under strange circumstances, the group begins to notice a disturbing pattern emerging.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tom RolfShot by Jack CardiffScored by Philippe SardeDesigned by Norman Newberry

Box Office

1981 · Box office

Grossed $23.4M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$23.4M

Worldwide gross$23.4M

Opening weekend: $2.1M 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 548 theaters

Also known as

  • Rache aus dem Reich der Totende
  • Zurück bleibt die Angstde
  • Le Fantôme de Milburnfr
  • Storie di fantasmiit

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