Ghost Town (1988)
Directed by Richard Governor
Genres - Mystery, Western, Crime |
Sub-Genres - Hybrid Western |
Release Date - Nov 11, 1988 (USA) |
Run Time - 85 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Cavett Binion
This interesting fusion of the horror and Western genres involves a modern-day sheriff (Franc Luz) whose search for a missing heiress leads him into the title locale, a frontier-age Arizona township whose residents are cursed with immortality. He eventually discovers that the abductee (Catherine Hickland) has been spirited off to the lair of an evil black-clad gunslinger (Jimmie F. Skaggs), who sees her as the reincarnation of the dance-hall girl he murdered a hundred years before. Excellent photography by Mac Ahlberg and a gritty Sergio Leone-inspired ambience lend a great deal of quality to this otherwise mundane production from Charles Band's outfit, which is saddled with a weak script that fails to put its unique concept to adequate use.
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ghost-town, spell [magic], curse, ghost, missing, outlaw [Western], reincarnation, investigator, kidnapping, revenge, dance-hall-girl, search, zombie, sheriff