There’s her combative, slacker brother who hardly speaks with her her oddly evasive relatives and a house full of creepy puppets and dolls, all of which have been left to Louise. As she arrives in her hometown for the funeral, she’s immediately reminded of her family’s peculiarities. But little does she know that things are about to go from bad to worse. Louise Joyner’s life gets turned upside down when her estranged brother, Mark, tells her their parents have died in a horrible car accident. It doesn’t necessarily give you what the synopsis implies, but it’s an undeniably wild ride from start to finish. One-part traditional haunted house story, one-part rumination on inherited grief and trauma, and one-part campy horror delight, How to Sell a Haunted House is a bombastically confident, deeply emotional, and wholly unpredictable joyride. Grady Hendrix’s How to Sell a Haunted House understands that idea perfectly.
It’s not about the ghosts, themselves, but about what they represent for those being haunted. And that’s what makes ghost stories so much fun. What is a haunted house story if not a story about grief? Ghosts serve as stand-ins for anything from unresolved family trauma to untold horrors from past generations.
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