Hangman's Curse

9/17/2018

_**Mild high school horror flick based on Frank Peretti’s supernatural book for youths**_ I originally saw this 2003 movie on DVD a couple of years after its release and, preparing to re-watch, I couldn’t remember anything about it, except the wacky professor, played by the author of the book, Frank Peretti, who comes across as a shorter Dr. Emmett Brown from “Back to the Future.” I saw an interview with him and he really IS as eccentrically animated as he appears in the film. The plot revolves around a Spokane, Washington, high school, which is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a kid who committed suicide ten years earlier. Several jocks have freaked out after seeing the apparition and subsequently went into a coma. The school enlists the services of the Veritas Project, a team of