This New Netflix Rom-Com With 92% on RT Is the Perfect Flick to Watch on Christmas

Emily Ting's fantasy movie, Girl Haunts Boy, was released on Netflix in October. The release of the movie about paranormal love coincided with the Halloween season.

But it's even better to watch it now: it's snowing outside, and Girl Haunts Boy is surprisingly suitable for a winter evening. Maybe it's because of the escapist mood of the movie, which is not overloaded with unnecessary drama.

What Is Girl Haunts Boy About?

In the 1920s, a curious high school student named Bea takes a tour of a museum and is intrigued by the exhibits. Breaking the rules, the girl enters a forbidden room where she discovers an ancient green ring. The security guard catches the student off guard, and she has no time to put the precious object back.

As soon as the girl leaves the museum, she is hit by a car. The action is set a hundred years ahead: teenager Cole and his mother move into a new house. Everything would be fine, but a ghost lives in the young man's room: Bea is stuck in the world of the living.

Girl Haunts Boy Focuses on Characters' Relationship

Cole and Bea predictably become close and find a kindred spirit in each other. The characters, longing for warm conversation, talk for hours. Teenagers from different centuries find a common ground: it turns out that they are both music lovers.

While Bea understands jazz, Cole gives his ghostly neighbor a lecture on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries: the girl from the past listens to David Bowie and Taylor Swift.

The main advantage of the movie is hidden in such small fragments: the director does not rush to the climax and focuses on the creation of a connection between young people.

Girl Haunts Boy Is Deeper Than It Seems at First Glance

Despite its genre and plot, Emily Ting's movie is less a love story than an exploration of grief. Cole experiences the death of his father, with whom the young man obviously had a warm relationship. The boy's life is divided into before and after, and he still finds it difficult to let go of the past and enjoy life as a teenager should.

Communicating with a ghostly girl distracts from the pain inside and helps Cole accept the transience of existence: after all, Bea is dead too, which means that one day he will have to say goodbye to the lady in the vintage dress.

All in all, Emily Ting has created a charming movie with supernatural elements, curses and lyrical musical interludes.