“Pay The Ghost” is another ghost film that blends in with other recent movies about poltergeists such as “Dark Water”, “The Ring”, “The Woman In Black” and “The Conjuring”. The only thing that this one really has going for it is that it stars Nicolas Cage (“Con Air”, “Leaving Las Vegas”), who is able to make this horror flick tolerable.

A year after the disappearance of his son at Halloween carnival, Mike Lawford (Cage) begins seeing visions of his missing child. Convinced that his son is somehow still alive, he is determined to find him. He uncovers a dark chapter in New York’s history as he tries to understand the supernatural entity that ruined his family.

Nicolas Cage is really good as Mike Lawford and he helps raise the quality of this relatively dull movie. The ghost is not very impressive and reminded me a lot of the one from “The Woman In Black”. The ghost usually appears during stupid jump scares, which we all know is one of the cheapest tricks horror films utilise. The other characters are not remotely interesting. The old blind man in particular is just dreadfully boring. I also found the scene with the medium to be quite disappointing.

“Pay The Ghost” is actually not that bad if you are a fan of films about ghosts. I normally find them rather tedious and not very scary but I know that there is obviously an audience for them because they keep churning them out. Fans of Nicolas Cage may appreciate his presence here but this is certainly not one of his most exciting performances because the script is fairly mundane. I’m getting quite bored of all these ghost movies because they seem to be getting less and less creative and therefore, they are becoming a lot less interesting.