Halloween Edition: Tower of Terror (1997) Movie Review

Tower of Terror (1997) Movie Review

**SPOILER ALERT! This review contains the movie ending**

I picked this movie based on the cast featured on the poster as well as the fact that I loved the rides at both Walt Disney World Park and Disneyland Park.

The cover features both Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst, which I was quite thrilled about since I am a fan of both of them. While watching the movie I came across many other people who I wasn't aware were even in the movie. Nia Peeples (Pretty Little Liars), Michael McShane (Richie Rich), Melora Hardin (The Office) and Lindsay Ridgeway (Boy Meets World). 

An old lady named Abigail (Amzie Strickland) visits a newspaper reporter Buzzy (Guttenberg) and his niece Anna (Dunst) claiming to have information about the disappearance of of five people from the Tower of Terror Hotel sixty years earlier. She claims that if the elevator gets repaired and the ghosts can make it to the top floor than their spirits will be freed. Buzzy and Anna visit the hotel to hear party music in the distance and see the ghosts spirits that are trapped in the hotel. They agree to help the spirits on Halloween night by enlisting the help of Q (McShane) to fix the elevator. Later in the movie they learn at Abigail was in fact the one who cursed them to never reach the party by having the elevator stop at floor eleven and drop because she was jealous of her famous sister Sally (Ridgeway). 

This is a very 90s family friendly Halloween night movie. There are cheap scares, cheesy effects, non logical situations which ends with a morale lesson. It reminds me a lot of Casper meets Double Double Toil & Trouble. I don't think the kids of today would appreciate it because the whole movie is very slow whereas a lot of kids shows these days have more going on. 

If you are a fan of the 90s and don't mind being taught some good old fashioned values about the love between sisters, than this movie is for you. Also for the record, this movie is not the same story that they feature at the rides at the Disney Parks since there is no mention or connection to The Twilight Zone.

Grade: C


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