"a charmingly lo-fi, supernatural comedy-drama” - Sonya Saepoff, Indiewire
Awkward twentysomething Ruth (Lindsay Burdge) and some pals head to the Hamptons for a weekend of mild
debauchery at their friend Andrew's parents' summer home. Ruth takes the guest house, unfazed by Andrew's
jokes about it being haunted. The group spends the first day getting high and lounging in the hot tub.
Eventually Ruth stumbles off to bed and ends up face-to-face with a figure wrapped in burlap: the Ghost
himself. What follows is not a horrific encounter, but a shy, tentative flirtation that escalates to a
roll in the sheets. Ruth is soon back at home and her weird weekend romp is all but forgotten.
That is, until strange things start happening to her body.
Harrison Atkins wears his mumblecore influences on his sleeve but pushes things into the beyond with an
inventive genre mix, which slides seamlessly between the tender and the genuinely creepy. Atkins' script
nails millennial self-absorption and ennui in a way that provides a disarming sense of humour and a
prevailing sense of dread, and both are brought to life with great comic timing by the young cast.
Colin Geddes
Toronto International Film Festival