人里離れた叔母の家を相続し、そこに移り住むことになったシングルマザーのポリーンと双子の娘。姉のヴェラは、奔放で現代的な少女。一方妹のベスは、ラブクラフトを崇拝する内向的な少女。双子の姉妹ながら、性格は正反対だった。新居に到着したその日の夜、突然の惨劇が一家を襲う。2人の暴漢が家に押し入ってきたのだ。しかし、娘を守ろうとする母は必死に反撃し、姉妹の目の前で暴漢たちをメッタ刺しにするー。あの惨劇から16年後。ベスは小説家として成功したが、ヴェラは精神を病み、今もあの家で母と暮らしていた。久しぶりに実家に戻ったベスを母は迎え入れるが、ヴェラは地下室に閉じこもっていた。そして、ベスに向かって衝撃の言葉をつぶやくー
監督: パスカル・ロジェ
脚本: パスカル・ロジェ
音楽: Todd Bryanton / Edouard Rigaudière
制作: Nicolas Manuel / Ian Dimerman / Grégoire Melin
撮影監督: ダニー・ノワク
制作会社: Mars Films / 5656 Films / Logical Pictures / Inferno Pictures / Highwire Pictures
Ghostland looks good but spins its wheels a lot narratively, especially in the second half, when it collapses into a pile of cliches from which it never emerges. If only the storytellers had cared about substance as much as style ... It'll pass the time but you can easily find something better to consume.
At first glance this film comes off as an extremely predictable horror flick, so the twist was clever seeing as I didn’t expect it until moments before it occurred but at that point… the film really started to fall flat for me. It peaked way too early and once we get passed the peak it started to come to a lull. The issue was that the movie seemed to be creating conflict not out of circumstance but out of boredom. The purpose of the protagonists got lost quickly. Overall the film was a big let down for me. Seeing as this is from the director of MARTYRS, a horror gore masterpiece, my hopes were high for this film so I was definitely disappointed. The most redeeming quality of this film is the jump scares! Those were executed perfectly. Sidenote: the antagonist character seemed to be casted to be a transphobic jab seeing as everyone referred to this person who was dressed like a woman as a “fucking man”, in a devisive way. Kinda tasteless.
