I WANNA CONTACT THE LIVING – Das Gespenstische von Canterville

In the organizer's words:

An ancient curse, an eerie castle and a lost soul who is up to mischief. The ghost of Canterville is just waiting to drive unsuspecting victims mad; condemned to only be able to make contact with others through the haunting. The problem is that the castle's new tenants are completely unimpressed. Creepiness, that primal human emotion, doesn't seem to work properly for the modern family. The ghost rattles the chains more and more desperately in the hope of provoking a reaction and increasingly helplessly falls back on everything that the various horror and scary genres have accumulated over the centuries.

Based on Oscar Wilde's story, author and director Katharina Grosch and her team ask themselves: can a completely enlightened society still be scary? And if not, why does everyone still have anxiety disorders and panic attacks? In the face of so many real-life horror scenarios, a certain apathy has crept in, which the lonely ghost is desperately trying to shake up. When all horror films have been watched, all traumas have supposedly been cured and even the most threatening news is scrolled away tiredly at breakfast, where is there still room for horror and is it not ultimately vital for human coexistence? After all, those who are creeped out move closer together.