Last night I only stayed up long enough to catch the first half - but in that first half alone there were enough similarities between
Spirit Lost and NoDS for them to be in no way coincidental. Beyond the plot outline, the she-ghost's locket looks to figure into things, the painter/husband has dreams/nightmares about events in the lusty she-ghost's life, he's drawn to an attic room in the house where he meets her in the flesh, so to speak, and not only do they have much more graphic sex there than there ever was in NoDS, he begins to spend more and more time obsessively painting there, neglecting his wife, and becoming more and more surly to boot whenever she questions why he spends so much time in the attic room. Can the wife checking out the attic room for herself be far behind? Who knows how many more similarities may await once I get around to watching the second half?
The opening credits say the movie is based on a book by Nancy Thayer. Well, if it really is closely based on that book, the heirs of Sam Hall and DC should sue Thayer, the producers of the movie, and its screenwriter!