70
Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineLaLoggia shares his unique vision with the viewer through an imaginative and innovative visual style that flows skillfully from traditional naturalism into surreal dreamlike fantasies and back again without ever seeming gratuitous or clumsy. A remarkable film.
- 80IGNIGNFrank LaLoggia's 1988 film scared the living hell out of yours truly with its singular combination of hometown horrors and operatic tragedy.
- 80The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesHere are the bones of an ordinary ghost story. But the writer and director Frank LaLoggia brings them to life with exceptional vitality.
- 75Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAlthough the results are a bit overextended, the film is still something of a rarity nowadays: an evocative, poetic horror film without a trace of gore (and in this respect, closer to a Val Lewton film of the 40s like The Curse of the Cat People than any contemporary models).
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLady 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.
- 75USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkWriter/director Frank LaLoggia's chiller about the dark underbelly of an idyllic small town is so effectively heartfelt yet also creepy that it's surprising he couldn't parlay it into more assignments.
- LaLoggia directs with creepy effectiveness.
- 70Time OutTime OutA winning, if uneven, blend of affectionate nostalgia and supernatural scariness.
- 70Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonFor all its faults Lady in White is never dull.