Saturday 5 June 2010

Movie 151: Ghost Town

Oh god, I’ve stumbled on to another Syfy original…

A gang of bandits makes a deal with the devil for immortality, but the town gets a preacher (Gil Gerard) to try and stop them. Alas it doesn’t work. Cut to 150 years or so later and a bus full of a, I assume, college hockey team and the debate team mysteriously end up in the town in some kind of weird purgatory. Then the ghosts start killing people…

My theory that the Syfy originals are watchable based on the calibre of TV star continues to work. This is REALLY bad. Now yes, they have Gil Gerard. But he’s not in it much really so barely counts. Their biggest star is therefore Jessica Rose. Who?! Exactly. She was Brea in the Lonelygirl15 Youtube videos. Wow, big star.

You know when your watching a film and your waiting for porn to break out, but kind of hoping that it won’t as you don’t really want to see the people in it having sex? Not that they’re ugly, just that you don’t like them? This is that.

Tie that in with the fact that the camera man appears to occasionally have an epileptic fit, the special effects are a bit wonky, and the script is piss poor and you have another Syfy classic.

I threw up a little in my mouth typing classic there, even though it was in jest…

Next up: The Shawshank Redemption. WHIPLASH

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