Ghost in the machine — Ruby Stokes as psychic investigator Lucy Carlyle.
HOW THREATENING CAN ghosts actually be? That’s the question that always frustrated Joe Cornish, a lover of spooky stories and horror films. “[A ghost] can make you jump or it can scare,” the Attack The Block director tells Empire, “but in terms of actual physical threat, movies sometimes struggle.” He mentions the possessed Regan in The Exorcist, for example. “She can’t actually do that much to you, other than terrify you.”