Ghost
Of Goodnight Lane
(2013/Inception Media Group DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: C Extras: D Film: D
The
line between film-making and reality blurs when a resentful ghost
takes over a film production office in this frighteningly tacky low
budget horror film - The
Ghost of Goodnight Lane.
The film stars Billy Zane (who will do anything now) and Lacey
Chambert with a short role by Danielle Harris (two of my celebrity
crushes I'll admit). The film mimics more successful ghost tales like
Insidious
and Paranormal
Activity
but in the end, it just isn't scary. It takes the elements of those
films and mixes with a more slasher storyline where the main
characters start to drop like flies.
In
a Dallas film studio the actors and crew of a horror film become the
victims of their own bloody horror story. One by one, they are
killed off by a vengeful ghost who seems to be re-enacting some of
the scariest moments in the history of film. As the director and his
crew start to piece together a forty year old puzzle, it may be too
late for them all. The key to their freedom is held by a creepy old
woman who reveals a murder mystery with a shocking and sinister
twist. The premise isn't boring but I don't feel the film is
memorable enough to find a very wide audience. Points for getting
some name actors in and a few inventive death scenes but all in all -
a bore.
The
transfer on the disc is nothing to write home about - standard DVD
presentation in the original 16 X 9/1.78 X 1 widescreen aspect ratio
of the original execution, no pun intended. The audio is also the
normal, lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 surround that plays flatly. The film
clocks in around 96 minutes.
The
only extra on the disc is a trailer and in addition, there isn't even
a chapter selection option. The menu is a bland, blurry photo of a
creepy ghost. All in all, I don't feel like a lot of care was taken
into this release. It feels slapped together just like the film.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
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