Ghost Fever was Sherman Helmsley’s attempt at a spiritual successor to the ol’ Abbott and Costello monster mashups, but unfortunately it didn’t scare up much box office… and the critics thought it was… sheet.
And so did director “Alan Smithee”, clearly.
Like a lot of self-financed vanity projects, this one didn’t go down well and Helmsley reportedly almost went bankrupt because of it. It was unceremoniously buried on Home Video back in October of ‘87.
It’s a title that wants to haunt the spaces between Transylvania 6-5000, Haunted Honeymoon or High Spirits, but you’re more likely find it shambling around the ironic so-bad-it’s-good shelf. And that’s not a bad shelf to be on. -Pop