Little Ghost Grabbers

Like all the Director's other movies this embarrasment is filled with terrible child actors, god-awful effects, terrible writing, a stupid story, etc... Avoid at all costs

Mark McNabb. He is a man that needs to be stopped. Fortunately he has not put his face on the internet because I am sure there are some people that wish to find him and yell at him for the utter embarrassment he has caused them due to his film career.

It's one thing to have a bad movie from time to time, but this guy fronted multiple terrible projects, and he has so far received no retribution for his crimes against cinema. Today we add Ghost Trap (or Little Ghost Grabbers, which is an awful name).

Much like the rest of his filmography, McNabb inexplicably uses the same kids for his projects, and once again, the kids are fully embarrassing. I hope they get a good chuckle out of this and are okay with these bad movies. I hate to think therapists are making huge bank off their suffering. Much like the rest of the world at the time of this film, we had had enough of Dan Akroyd biding his time on the Ghostbusters 3 movie, and so Mark mother loving McNabb decided to do something about it.

Why not a kids version of Ghostbusters? Except with no interesting characters, coherent plot and comedy. Ooof, when this thing ended it was a relief. Who gave this guy money to make all this garbage? Inquiring minds want to know. I'm so done with this. Adios.

Director Mark McNabb and writer Barry Cowan make direct to video children's movies. This particular type of film has one goal and that is to keep children interested. It has children slightly older than the target audience as the main characters and a goofy adult for comedy relief. The effects are unpolished as is most of the whole production because it does not have to be. It plays to an unsophisticated audience who still have imagination and wonder about everything. It has no other redeeming qualities, nor does it need them. If you want to keep your children occupied in the back seat of your SUV on a trip, or even at home this film will fill that need. Trying to dissect this film in adult terms is ridiculous.

The film adds some elements of science by making the adult a science teacher. When he speaks about science he is not goofy. I think it is a good idea to use such a character(non threatening adult) to perhaps interest the target audience in science and to make the main character(the older lead) interested in science is a plus. My only negative criticisms are that they use electricity as an experiment and I would be concerned that some young children might consider investigating electricity without adult supervision. It might also be a concern for atheists who do not want their children to think of ghosts or some type of mythological spirituality especially at such a young age. The ghosts are non threatening, however, and the old lady/witch is really just a nice old lady who misses her dead husband.