Lady in White (1988)

This is a classic "scary" movie from my childhood. The tagline for the movie: The year is 1962. The place is Willowpoint Falls. Nobody talks about what happened in the cloakroom ten years ago. Now, in the dead of night, Frankie Scarlatti is going to find out why. The movie begins with a famous mystery writer returning to his hometown. He begins to tell us about events that took place when he was ten years old in 1963. Lukas Haas stars as Frankie, Scarlatti, a young boy that survives an attack after hours at school during Halloween. He "witnesses" the murder of a young girl. By witness I mean that he sees her ghost get killed. He never sees the identity of the killer. He comes to learn that the individual that killed this girl killed several children in the area. He is the only survivor.

While recovering he sees the girl and she shows him more of what happened that night. He learns that her mother died as well and he believes she is the lady in white from the local legend that haunts the town at night.  While Frankie tries to find out more about the girl and her mother the town is distracted by the arrest of the school janitor for the the attack. The janitor happens to be black. Racism rears its ugly head. No one looks elsewhere for the attacker/child murderer.

Frankie stumbles upon his attacker. The movie hints at pedophilia being the reason behind the child murders. Since this is still a movie for children the movie only hints as this being the reason for the attacks. The attacker is revealed as well as the identity of the lady in white.

Creepy factor
- Ghost girl keeps appearing to "relive" her murder
- The lady in white
- Unknown child molester/killer
- Racism

Lessons learned
- Racism is wrong and blinds people to the truth
- Just because someone looks scary doesn't mean that they are scary. Evil can have a beautiful/kind face.