
Movie review
February 24, 2023 · 127 min · PG-13
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Black family leads star opposite a white ghost in this adaptation of a short story with unspecified race. The mom drops a line refusing to act like the "stupid white family in every horror film." There are also "stupid gender norms" jokes and racial music preference nudges from the dad. The main engine stays family reconciliation and ghost mystery, but these race and gender comments pop up enough to notice. Some users flagged it as white shaming.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for We Have a Ghost.
Woke representation / casting
Black family leads in adaptation of race-unspecified short story; white ghost; minor LGBTQ+ visibility via cast/cameo; noticeable diversity but aligns with modern premise.
Woke political dialogue
Lines mocking “stupid white family” horror tropes and “stupid gender norms”; light racial and gender comments present but not dominant.
Identity-driven story themes
Father-son reconciliation and ghost mystery drive the narrative; identity elements incidental.
Western institutional / cultural critique
CIA ghost program is standard horror conspiracy device; no modern activist framing of patriarchy, whiteness, or systemic oppression.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Production
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
User reviews accuse anti-white messaging over dialogue; limited to online backlash, not major coverage.
Creator track record context
Landon’s horror-comedy films show no strong activist or identity-politics pattern.