The Ghost and Mr. Chicken1966

Name: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Genre: Ghosts & Haunting, Comedy Horror
Released: 1966-01-20
Rating: 7.1

“G-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY!”

Directed by Alan Rafkin

7.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 7.2Rotten Tomatoes 67%TMDB 6.8

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On the charts

#20·Top Ghosts & Haunting Films

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Year

1966

Runtime

90 min

Box Office

Budget

$700,000

🏆 1 nomination total

The premise

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

Horror Vault's take

Bumbling small-town typesetter Luther Heggs sees his big journalistic break when he volunteers to spend a night alone in a notoriously haunted mansion — and lives to tell a very dramatic tale about it. His ghost-encounter story rockets him to local celebrity, but the fame comes with unexpected legal consequences that put everything he claims to the test. Equal parts spine-tingle and slapstick, this Don Knotts vehicle wraps its haunted-house chills in warm, crowd-pleasing comedy. Whether the supernatural goings-on are real or imagined is part of the fun.

Content: Mild Slapstick Violence, Brief Spooky Imagery Suitable For Most Ages