Bob McCully’s review published on Letterboxd:
I remember watching this one a bunch when I was a wee lad, so when I picked up the Scream Factory double feature blu-ray of Vampire's Kiss that was paired with this I welcomed the revisit opportunity.
Somewhat of a weirdo horror-comedy, high on whimsy and slapstick, like a cornball British Beetlejuice-lite. Follows the owners of a castle hotel that are facing a possible eviction due to lack of business so they decide to market the place as haunted to lure people in. The people show up and very quickly the cynical customers realize it's all a scam but once the "jig is up" the real ghosts show up and calamity ensues.
A bizarre ensemble cast definitely draws you in but the storyline about essentially a ghost couple and living couple swapping partners really made me zone out, I was not feeling it at all.
The vibe in general of this movie was just not working for me. Most jokes fell flat and I felt like I couldn't understand what people were saying half the time.
Fortunately there's a bucket load of hijinks that kept me mostly entertained: lightning zapping people, creepy ghost nuns pushing people out windows, a painting of an octopus coming alive and turning a kid into a painting, a talking horse named Ronaldo, drunk Steve Guttenberg acting a fool, etc.
Kind of a crud farm but I'll be back.