The unconventional narrative structure seems more beguiling the more you think about it - this is a film designed to expand in your memory.

Slow and baffling at times, A Ghost Story follows you, not unlike the undead spirit within its frame.

The film stubbornly refuses to connect with its deeper themes because of a vague, self-consciously arty structure and a pace so deliberate it approaches a stand-still.

Lowery is less interested in telling a traditional ghost story or scaring his audience. His aim here is to explore how the ghost story as a genre and storytelling tradition masks cultural anxieties about time and mortality.