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Ghost Rider

1982 · 15 min

A gentle, eerie slice of 80s school-film strangeness that blends ghostly melancholy with earnest safety lessons and a surprisingly tense cliffhanger.

Directed by
Chuck Ungar
Genres
Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
Overview
Kevin, feeling very sad and lonely after spending his first day in a new junior high school, meets a young girl on his bus ride home who drops a pencil and suddenly disappears. Is this mysterious young girl the ghost of a girl who died on a bus years before? And why is she so adamant that Kevin learns bus safety rules?
How it feels
Eerie, melancholic, earnest and tense. Measured and easy to follow.
About
Isolation, death, coming-of-age, friendship
Content
Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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Directed by
Chuck Ungar
Genres
Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour2
Realism6
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

Cast

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Details

Genres
thriller, drama, fantasy
Directed by
Chuck Ungar
Written by
Chuck Ungar
Starring
Doug Edmunds, Wendy Taylor, Gary Abdullah, Debra Thompson, W. Clair King
Runtime
15 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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