

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
Acting
Peter O'Toole's unhinged descent into actual madness.
Production
Real Irish castle drenched in cheap ghost effects.
Writing
Neil Jordan somehow made this after The Company of Wolves.

Director
Neil Jordan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Neil Jordan disowned the final cut after producers re-edited his darker original vision into pure slapstick. The theatrical trailer literally uses scenes that barely appear in the finished film.
This bombed so hard it almost killed Jordan's Hollywood career—he retreated to Europe and made The Crying Game four years later, so arguably High Spirits was necessary creative collateral damage.