Ghost Storm

The movie Ghost Storm looked like inexperienced teens got together for a day and just threw stuff together in order to try and make a movie! The acting was terrible, sorry but I'm honest! I was excited for something scary, instead I was greeted with rubbish,not much thought,put into this movie to grab the audiences attention guys.. !💛🙏

Most SyFy channel movies, with a few exceptions, range from lame to trash. Ghost Storm is one of their movies that isn't too lame and it is certainly isn't trash. It could have been much better sure, for such a good concept it was somewhat of a missed opportunity, but for a SyFy Channel movie it's tolerable. The scenery and lighting are quite creepy, and the editing and special effects actually show time and effort. The opening in the graveyard and the house ambush were also atmospherically effective, and the acting by all is quite good especially the two leads(Crystal Allen the slightly stronger of the two), who also share a sweet chemistry. Apart from a few scenes though, Ghost Storm is lacking in thrills and scares, the pace was too draggy for it to be thrilling and the scares were more predictable than they were shocking. The story has some good ideas and has its moments but can come across as too silly and formulaic with some scenes and strands that are introduced and touched upon but not developed enough. The script is also rather underwritten and can lack flow as well as too much of the cheese factor, thankfully though it is actually nowhere near as bad as most SyFy channel movie scripts(most of the time the script is one of the worst things about them). The ghosts look good and are not entirely personality-less, just that their personalities could have been even stronger, we know they're angry and such but not much else. Overall, not a bad film but could have done more with the ideas they had. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Ghost Storm (2011): The ghosts of a religious cult who had committed mass suicide on an island in 1912 are freed from their tomb by an electrical storm. The ghosts send out strands of mist to suck the life force from their victims leaving them desiccated. As the ghosts gain strength they blast their prey to pieces and form a cloud which floats over the island. Similarities to The Fog abound, the island is in the US Pacific North-West, there is a conspiracy regarding the mass suicide, descendants of the cult's enemies are targeted by the ghosts, the killer mist/fog. The CGI is a bit ropey but writer/director Paul Ziller (well known for his TV horror films) makes the best of a low budget to deliver a watchable horror thriller. 5.5/10.

As I've often said in my Facebook group Jaded Horror Hound, SyFy Channel films are generally terrible. One or two that I've seen hit the spot (Flight 666 for example), and here we have another one that gets most of it right and totally entertains. It's about a strange electrical storm which is led by angry souls from a mass suicide looking for revenge on the townsfolk of a small island community. Passable CGI FX, relatively good acting and some rather nice camera work, all prove that SyFy can release some semi-decent films when they want to. Cut and paste this may be, but it's non stop action and exploding bodies turning to ash all the way! I'm actually gonna keep this in my collection....

The first few minutes has teens in a graveyard when a storm breaks out and one of the boys is turned into a mouldy old corpse. Had a bit of a promising 80s feel about it. Sadly it went downhill from there. Something about an electrical storm being the souls of the dead wanting revenge for a mass killing. Or something. I pretty much gave up trying to follow the reasoning behind it as it was just so ridiculous. The Fog this certainly isn't! Lots of CGI on show, pretty cheap looking though I have seen much worse. Acting is OK, nice locations. No sex. swearing or gore. Tame, silly nonsense..