A seasoned cast — with a couple of horror fan faves in its ranks — and a few of cool supernatural effects decorate “Brooklyn 45,” a stodgy, stagey horror tale from the director of “We Are Still Here” and “Mohawk.”

Ted Geoghegan parks five and then six players in a house for this dry drawing room thriller that touches on “the war” and what those there did in the just-ended conflict, war crimes included.

The cast is a bit long in the tooth — most of them are 60 or so — to be cast as mid-level officers, “an interrogator” and a “trigger-man” from the just-ended conflict. The parlor they gather in is too well-lit to ever take on the cachet of “spooky,” and the script — while it has some pithy dialogue — leans on long monologues, reminiscences and judgements, which don’t really deliver suspense or thrills, remorse or pathos.

But again, the few effects are clever enough.

Marla (Anne Ramsay of TV’s “Mad About You”), “the interrogator,” walks with a cane, her reminder of the German bombing that killed many on a base she was stationed at in Europe during the war. She’s escorted in by her mousie Pentagon clerk husband (Ron E. Rains).

They’re joining old friends — HER old friends — all of whom served in the conflict which ended mere months before. It’s just after Christmas, and Lt. Col. Clive Hockstetter, “Hock” (horror darling Larry Fessenden) has called in the couple, and old comrades Major Paul DiFranco (Ezra Buzzington) and Major Archie Stanton (Jeremy Holm) for a between-the-holidays reunion.

Hock’s wife died over Thanksgiving, and they’re there for support. But Hock’s mourning, the manner of his wife’s death and insensitive treatment by a priest has awakened his curiosity about what might lie “beyond.”

He needs them there to have a seance, to see if he can contact the late Susan.

“All you need is a mirror, and a couple of friends who aren’t afraid to hold hands.”

They’re all reluctant, but he’s hurting. And there’s a hint of “pulling rank” to his begging.

But when they do “reach out” and make contact, more questions come up that beg for answers, more complications, more tragedy, all of which must be resolved as they are trapped in that over-memento’d parlor by supernatural forces they can’t overcome.

The group dynamics are interesting, in a dated archetypes bickering over dated grudges way. “Marla the Merciless” interrogator is respected, her “pencil pusher” spouse is not. This one’s facing war crimes charges and that one’s still “following orders.”

And then there’s the German woman (Kristina Klebe) they discover, locked in a cabinet.

Geoghegan may have attracted some decent players and limited the scale and ambition of this piece to something manageably compact. But he doesn’t generate frights or suspense, which are Job One and Job Two in a horror thriller.

The cast does what it can with the material, but their big speeches rarely add up to a “big moment.”

And the debates/discussions here about what soldiers do in war, how soon they can let that war go, attitudes about Germans and homosexuality and those who didn’t take part in combat aren’t exactly novel or deep. Geoghegan didn’t suddenly transform into a deep thinker, an artful screenwriter or a filmmaker to watch.

Perhaps there’s more life to “Brooklyn 45” in a more natural setting for something this stagey — the stage. No stage director I know would light something supposedly spooky with foreboding like a local TV news set.

Rating: unrated, violence, profanity

Cast: Anne Ramsay, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, Jeremy Holm, Ron E. Rains and Kristina Klebe

Credits: Scripted and directed by Ted Geoghegan. A Shudder release.

Running time: 1:33