Ghost Story: Bad Connection

 This is a horror anthology TV series from the 1970's, originally named "Ghost Story" and later it changed the title to "Circle of Fear". Each episode has a different tale of the spooky kind, and sometimes nightmarish. It was hosted by a fictional gentleman character named Winston Essex, owner of a haunted hotel, who introduced the stories. The next episode is "Bad Connection", directed by Walter Doniger and stars Sabastian Cabot, Karen Black and Michael Tolan.

This is a ghost story about a widow named Barbara that keeps getting strange phone calls from a man who sounds like her dead husband. He was killed in action during the Vietnam War, and Barbara hears the ghostly noises that no one else can. It becomes clear that her husband's ghost is trying to reach her from the grave.

While the supernatural events happening to Barbara is related to her dead husband, there's many holes in the story that suggests mental illness or someone is pretending to be him just to trick her. The message "promise" floats around a lot, and grief is lacking. I rate this a plain paper white strawberry for being lifeless.

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