An amiable Irish ghost comedy with a few giggles and a personable cast. It's a little low on incident, perhaps, but the sheer glee of the enterprise makes up for some of its shortcomings, which include an over-reliance on repetitious tracking shots by director Neil Jordan. At Castle Plunkett hotel, the rooms are guestless, the debts are endless and the good Lord Plunkett (Peter O'Toole) is legless, and at the end of his tether, when he gets the idea of a few ghosts to drum up trade. A coachload of Americans arrives, but the ghost night is a disaster, and doom beckons Lord Peter again before the real castle ghosts, led by Ray McAnally, decide to bale him out. Generally, the idea, like most ghost comedies, sounds funnier than it is. But you'll find it lively enough (and brief enough) to get by with a smile. The special effects have an appealing low-tech cottage industry charm about them, but the script is little more than hot air.


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