Paranormal Ghosts

(2007) Ghosts of Goldfield HORROR

Straight-to-rental co-produced and directed by Ed Winfield ghost flick and is inconsistent in terms of it's story line centering on five teens of Julie (Marnette Patterson), Chad (Kellan Lutz), Mike (Richie Chance), Dean (Scott Whyte), and Kerri (Mandy Amano) who're supposed to be ghost hunting, except one of them had her, I'll name her Julie had own agenda, to return to a particular hotel located at a ghost town to revisit the death of a specific ghost, Elizabeth (Ashley Ra) murdered by her husband George Winfield (Chuck Zito). The movie leaves more questions than it gives any answers.

I saw nothing than bad reviews about Ghosts Of Goldfield. Indeed, that title is more like a western instead of a horror so they changed it in Europe to Paranormal Ghost to make use of the success of the "Paranormal" word. Naturally that isn't enough so they made use of the title "Twilight" as coming from the movie Twilight, Kellan Lutz. If you have seen my review on the Twilight trilogy then you know it's in my top 5 of worst flicks ever. So that was no reference for me. Another name that I notice was Roddy Piper. If I put the word Rowdy between then I guess you know that I'm talking about the Hall Of Fame from the WWE. I had no problem with his acting like so many had, I know him from his WWF period in the eighties, screaming and very aggressive. He do appears sometimes in the new WWE world and here in this flick, I thought he did it well, hoped I could say that from the other actors too. Some you really see acting, sadly, Mandy Amano is number one on that list. The scene about the rat in the bar, so bad acting. She is also the only one who goes nude but there's nothing to see for the Kleenex boys out there. It's funny that Paranormal Ghosts started off pretty well. And it even had some blood in the first minutes but after a while the ghost appears in real life and it all becomes a bit dull. There's a lot of talking and suggesting that the ghost is there but when the red stuff comes in it's all to late. The ending is predictable and so it's not all that ghostly as it should be. The version I have is 18+ well if someone can tell why please do so. You can sit through it easily with your family just before the children TV starts. Nevertheless, due the good beginning of the film and the decapitation scene I give it a 4.

Julie and her crew go down to the ghost town of Goldfield hoping to get some juicy stuff about the nearby hotel that's supposedly haunted by Elizabeth Walker, a young woman who had been killed after her wealthy guy found out that the baby she was carrying was not his own. The crew want to get video of her as she prowls the hotel's corridors looking for said baby, who was also murdered.

The big selling point for me in renting this film was the sheer fact the Roddy Piper was in it. Visons of past greatness such as "They Live", "Hell Comes to Frogtown" (and to a lesser degree "No Contest") danced in my head. I was kind of hoping to see a nice ghost story as well. Sadly this mess of a film accomplished neither as I soon sadly realized that Piper's character was dreadfully under-developed and left him nothing to work with. And the ghost story was predictable, trite, and above all dreadfully boring. Leave this one in the bargain bin where it belongs.

My Grade: D-

DVD Extras: a stills gallery; a trailer for this film; and trailers for "Dark Reel", "Baseline Killer", & "Carnivorous"

Y'all, this is straight-up awful. The acting, the special effects, the script: just awful. Dumb characters making dumb choices. There are no redeeming qualities to this film at all. Skip it. Please.

If I was actually curious I would check out, why this was originally intended to be part of the Urban Legend(s) cinematic universe (not sure if they'd have called it that back in the day). But I am not. Feel free to roam this page or the internet if you are curious, I give you my blessings.

Having said that, it was nice to see Roddy Piper and Marnette or Kellan Lutz. They still do not make up for the insanity you are about to witness. Although in one case it works in favor of the movie. That is the sex scene - or rather the aftermath of the sex scene. While the obvious dubbing of the moaning is already funny (and surely not intended to be that way), what really is pure comedy is how the characters react to the said intercourse. You could also call it bad acting of course ... and unintended to the highest degree. Still the best scene of the whole movie.