Ghosts of Goldfield

(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.

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.

This movie starts out OK, but then just fails to really do anything. I purchased the movie at the local Wal-Mart because I used to live just 27 miles north of Goldfield in the town of Tonopah, NV. I hope that this isn't considered a spoiler, but ALL of the interior flamings of the hotel in this film were not filmed at the Goldfield Hotel, but up the road in Tonopah at the now defunct, Mizpah Hotel. I know!!!!! I used to work at the Mizpah Hotel and it all looked very familiar to me.

The acting is barely mediocre in this film. Two pretty girls, one cute guy, and one hunk, along with Roddy Piper couldn't make this film shine. Five college students go to Goldfield, NV to study ghosts the closed Goldfield Hotel and spend the night there. I can tell anyone now that would never happen because Esmerelda County would never let anyone spend the night there. I don't believe that the hotel has actually had guests since the late 40's or early 50's. It may have opened up in the 70's for a short while, but I would have to check my facts.

Don't waste your money going out and buying this DVD. Wait for it on Sci-FI or a horror channel some long snowy afternoon.

Movie Grade-D+

The plot of this movie is the basic haunted house scenario. However it suffers from bad direction, a bad script, bad acting and bad special effects. The cast is relatively small and I only recognised two of them, Roddy Piper (They Live) and Marnette Patterson (Kaley Cuoco's sister in Charmed). Marnette can act and in my opinion is the only person in the movie who can. I would go into more detail but i wasted enough time watching the movie itself so I'm not going to waste any more.

This should be a 1 star rating but unfortunately and unbelievably I have seen worse movies than this, therefore I have to save the 1's for them.

I decided to rent this movie mainly because Roddy Piper was in it. In the past, he has appeared in some very enjoyable movies, and I thought this effort might be another one. Sadly, Roddy is not one of the main characters, and not only is he unrecognizable, he doesn't get to do that much here.

The rest of the movie is even worse. It appears that the movie only spent money on the digital camera and a few other technical pieces of equipment, because hardly anything resembling "production values" appears on screen. It just seems that the movie had access to a bar and an abandoned building, and wrote a screenplay that could use those locations without bringing in anything else. As a result, the movie looks extremely cheap, not helped by poor lighting and goofs like the shadow of the boom mike appearing on a wall in the background.

But what's worse is the extremely slow pace. It takes forever for the characters to realize they are in jeopardy, and once they realize this, they don't do the logical thing like get out of there.

In short, there is absolutely nothing here to justify giving the movie a look.