Ghostland (2018)

Release date: 2018-03-14
Country: France|Canada
Language: English|French
Director: Pascal Laugier
Production Co: 5656 Films, Highwire Pictures, Incident Productions
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: 6.4/10
Length: 1h 31min

Storyline

Following her aunt's death, Colleen and her daughters inherit her house. However, during their first night in their new home, murderers enter the home, putting Colleen in a situation where she must fight to save her daughters' lives. When the girls suffer a terrible trauma during the night, their disparate personalities diverge even further. The younger daughter, Beth, is said to become a famous horror author with a perfect family and life in Los Angeles, while her sister, Vera, can't cope, and loses her mind faced to an unshakable sense of paranoia. Sixteen years later the daughters and mother reunite at the house where Colleen and Vera continue to reside, it is then that strange events begin to take place.

Plot Keywords

dream sequence, teenager fighting adult, serial killer, typewriter, home invasion, menstruation, blood, doll, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, overhead camera shot, record player, face slap, throat cut, close up of eye, writing on a mirror, bloody hands, screaming in fear, lifted by the throat, stabbed in the neck

Short Review

An effectively punishing critique of the relentless misogyny that has become a staple of every stupid Texas Chain Saw Massacre knockoff that pits sexually active women against emotionally disturbed serial killers.