A paranormal thriller that keeps you breathless from the beginning to the end. A love story that happens once in a lifetime and that lasts forever.

GHOST SON is about a married couple, Stacey and Mark (Harring and John Hannah, respectively), who are deeply in love and living on Mark’s farm in South Africa. They enjoy many a passionate night together but, this being a Bava film, we know that this bliss will be short-lived. Rather than work with her friend and colleague Elizabeth (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni), Stacey decides to remain on Mark’s farm and work with him. They have some friends, Bongani and Leleti, who seem to believe in other-worldly spirits, and Thandi is their teenage maid.

When Mark leaves for work in his truck, he suffers an accident and manages to call Stacey on his radio. Frantic, she rushes to his aid, shocked to see him pinned under the vehicle. Although she manages to raise the truck with a jack, Mark succumbs to internal injuries and dies. Devastated, Stacey returns to the farm and decides to remain there since she feels close to Mark. As the days pass, she is reminded of her past experiences with Mark. His funeral is especially painful, as she recalls Mark telling her doctor that he was marrying Stacey.

Mark begins to appear to her, asking her if she can live without him. He’s persuading her to commit suicide so that they can be together in the afterlife. After a reluctant suicide attempt in the bathtub from which she is saved by her doctor, she realizes her weakness and vows not to try again. When her doctor asks her how she’s been, she realizes that she’s been late with her menstrual cycle. It occurs to her that she is carrying Mark’s baby. After a complicated and painful delivery, it becomes obvious that Stacey’s infant son is possessed by Mark’s spirit. While breast feeding, the infant practically bites off Stacey’s nipple, although he has no teeth. Stacey pleads with others that something is wrong with her son, but her cries for help go largely unheeded. As the days progress, the baby seems to be trying to kill her to bring her to Mark so they can spend eternity together.

Bava pays tribute to William Friedkin when Stacey brings her son up to her face and he inexplicably vomits violently all over her. The scene is more comical than scary.

After the evil forces at work kill Thandi, Stacey is face to face with Mark, and she renounces him, choosing to remain and raise their son who, once Mark is banished, grows up to be a normal child.