Spirit Lost

Spirit Lost
Directed byNeema Barnette
Produced byTim Reid
Starring
Production
companies
BET Films
United Image Entertainment
Distributed byLive Entertainment
Release date
  • March 25, 1997 (1997-03-25)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Spirit Lost is a 1997 film directed by Neema Barnette, produced by Tim Reed, and starring Leon Robinson, Cynda Williams and Regina Taylor.[1][2]

Premise

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After John, a painter, and his wife move into an old house on an island, a seductive widow ghost shows up in mirrors, windows and in John's dreams and nightmares. She eventually lures him into moving into his attic studio while she tries to scare his now unhappy and pregnant wife away.

Cast

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Development

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Spirit Lost is loosely based on the book of the same name by Nancy Thayer.[3]

Release

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Spirit Lost was released direct to home video in 1997.[3]

Themes

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Robin R Means Coleman wrote in her book Horror Noire that Spirit Lost was a "rare horror film that was nearly an all-female affair" and that the film prominently featured characters that served as moral arbiter and saviors.[3] She would later revisit the film in her 2023 work The Black Guy Dies First, further noting the codependent relationship between John and the ghostly Arabella.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Disney leads new releases". The News-Press. March 7, 1997. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  2. ^ McClain, Shonda (June 10, 1995). "'Spirit Lost' a low-down psychological thriller". Indianapolis Recorder. Archived from the original on 2023-04-27. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Coleman, Robin R. Means (2013-03-01). Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present. Routledge. pp. 182–183. ISBN 978-1-136-94293-8.
  4. ^ Coleman, Robin R. Means; Harris, Mark H. (2023-02-07). The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar. Simon and Schuster. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-9821-8655-5.
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