High Spirits

High Spirits (1988) is a supernatural comedy you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Neil Jordan and shot on location in Ireland, with Peter O'Toole, Liam Neeson, Steve Guttenberg, and Daryl Hannah. 99 minutes.

The cash-strapped owner of a crumbling Irish castle (O'Toole) advertises it as a haunted destination for gullible American tourists. The problem: the ghosts are real. When a busload of visitors arrives, two of them wind up falling for actual spirits, which complicates everyone's afterlife considerably.

Jordan made this as a deliberate romp — not gothic, not scary, just loud and chaotic and oddly sweet. Neeson as a jealous, lovesick ghost is genuinely funny, years before action stardom locked him into a single register. The plot loses its thread toward the end, but the combination of crumbling-castle atmosphere and pure silliness gives it a texture that straight comedies of the era rarely had. Stream High Spirits (1988) online on iFILM.