My very first horror convention I went to was in California in April of 1988. One of the guests at that show, promoting his new movie, was writer/director Frank LaLoggia, a ghost story called Lady in White. He had previously written and directed Fear No Evil (1981), which I had not seen at that time. But when Lady hit the theaters, I went to go see it and I was blown away. I’ve always liked traditional ghost stories, one where there is a sort of a mystery to be solved, but yet still be creepy. And this one fit the bill to a tee.

There is something special about a film that is able to capture a moment of history of small-town American, with the good and the bad, that makes you feel like you are there in that same timeless element. Lady in White does just that. A young Lucas Haas plays Frankie, a future wannabe writer who loves to spooky stories, gets locked in the cloakroom at school one night. He witnesses a ghostly murder of a young girl, as if it was happening right in front of him then and there. After nearly dying, he sets off to uncover the truth of what he saw, even though nobody believes him.