Lady in White

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Lady in White

PG-13,

1988,

1h 53m,

Horror

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Locked in the cloakroom after school as a Halloween prank, Frankie (Lukas Haas) meets the ghost of a young neighborhood girl, Melissa Anne Montgomery (Joelle Jacobi), who had been found strangled to death 10 years before. Frankie soon learns that nine other children have been killed in the years since, and with the spectral help of Melissa and her mother, a grieving apparition known as The Lady in White (Karen Powell), he attempts to discover the murderer before he becomes his latest victim.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3/4

Lady in White tells a classic ghost story in such an everyday way that the ghost is almost believable, and the story is actually scarier than it might have been with a more gruesome approach.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Jan 1, 2026

2/4

There's wasted potential to spare in Lady in White, a low-key ghost tale that does just enough right to make the overall disappointment more pronounced.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 15, 2025

2/5

The narrative momentum, or complete lack thereof, prevents this movie from fully capitalizing on the moody and atmospheric tones.

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Paul Lê

Bloody Disgusting

Oct 26, 2023

4/5

That sense of heartwarming catharsis also extends to the filmmaker, whose fierce efforts to make Lady in White — as he originally envisioned and without the same kind of studio meddling that affected his first film — paid off in the long run.

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Jack Garner

Gannett News Service

Apr 15, 2020

3/4

Lady in While is frequently impressive film making that builds to an exciting, even frightening, conclusion.

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Cathy Burke

United Press International

Nov 8, 2016

Lady in White, written and directed by Frank LaLoggia, manages to combine the eery and ordinary in a fanciful and melancholy ghost tale.

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Hagrid W

Feb 6, 2017

Weak little ghost tale, for me at least. Maybe if I'd seen this as a kid, it would've had more of an effect... It's not poorly made or anything, just didn't connect with me.

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Kylo W

Nov 30, 2016

Es innecesariamente larga, no profundiza en las razones de los asesinatos a los niños, ni cuando dejó el anillo y el final malo, si quería matar al niño para que lo salvó del fuego en primer lugar.

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Frank LaLoggia

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Lukas Haas

Frankie Scarlatti

Len Cariou

Phil Terragarossa

Alex Rocco

Angelo 'Al' Scarlatti

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Synopsis

Locked in the cloakroom after school as a Halloween prank, Frankie (Lukas Haas) meets the ghost of a young neighborhood girl, Melissa Anne Montgomery (Joelle Jacobi), who had been found strangled to death 10 years before. Frankie soon learns that nine other children have been killed in the years since, and with the spectral help of Melissa and her mother, a grieving apparition known as The Lady in White (Karen Powell), he attempts to discover the murderer before he becomes his latest victim.

Director: Frank LaLoggia
Producer: Frank LaLoggia, Andy La Marca
Screenwriter: Frank LaLoggia
Distributor: New Century Vista Film Company [us]
Production Co: New Sky Communications Inc.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 27, 1988, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $282.7K
Runtime: 1h 53m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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