WeHaveAGhost Review: Viral Haunting Story Best When Played For Laughs
In his most recent tenure at Blumhouse, writer-director Christopher Landon showed a talent for making movies fun. His horror-comedies Happy Death Day and Freaky got a lot of mileage out of their genre-mashing conceits, but the self-awareness was tempered with a lack of self-seriousness, eschewing parody or satire for something purely playful and appreciative.
What's most immediately striking about We Have a Ghost is its tone. In some ways, Landon's film is very much speaking to today, sporting an online sense of humor and a Black protagonist who feels firmly rooted in this generation of teens. In other ways, it is so clearly a throwback to a certain '80s and '90s vibe, with echoes of movies like E.T.
Also drawn from that era is a real willingness to have fun with effects, and the first half especially plays with Ernest's CGI in some very creative ways, as the rules of his ghostliness are fleshed out. He isn't corporeal, but, like in Ghost, can will himself to interact with the physical world. He can turn invisible, and after learning from some of today's horror films, can control his physical appearance in other, hilariously ghoulish ways.
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