Director: Jill Gevargizian
A dare between two thrill-seekers turns into something they can't walk away from in Ghost Game, a 2024 American horror-thriller from director Jill Gevargizian.
What is Ghost Game about?
A restless couple who chase adrenaline for fun pick an abandoned house as their next target, treating the visit like a game with rules only they understand. Once inside, the plan starts to slip. Strange sounds lead them room to room, and what looks at first like an ordinary derelict property reveals traces of a family that once lived there and never fully left. As the pair document their dare, they begin witnessing fragments of that family's unraveling, replayed in ways that blur the line between memory and threat. The tone stays lean and claustrophobic, with the couple's overconfidence working against them as the house asserts its own logic. Ghost Game leans on tension over jump scares, letting the isolation of the setting and the pair's dwindling options carry the back half of its 86-minute runtime.
Cast & crew
Kia Dorsey and Zaen Haidar anchor the film as the couple whose game goes sideways, with support from Aiden Hughes, Vienna Maas, Emily Bennett, Michael C. Williams, Sam Lukowski, and Sharrie McCain rounding out the cast caught up in the house's history.
Context & significance
Ghost Game arrives from director Jill Gevargizian as part of a wave of small-crew American horror built around a single location and a tight cast, a format that keeps the dread concentrated rather than spread across a sprawling plot. The film's American production carries an IMDb user rating of 3.4, reflecting a title that leans firmly into genre-fan territory rather than mainstream horror. Its haunted-house premise sits comfortably alongside other low-budget genre entries that trade big scares for sustained unease and a sense that the location itself is the real antagonist.
Where & how to watch
Ghost Game is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login. The page itself is free to browse without signing in, and K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to find and queue up horror titles like this one alongside the rest of the catalog.