![]() ![]() There’s an investor involved, but when he shows up (complaining that it was a 4-hour drive, as if he couldn’t have met via Zoom and had a tour through the Internet or, for that matter, just watched Mark’s video channel) he’s immediately upset by the junky spot and, after venting about how much time he’s wasted, is back in his car and out of the film in just a few minutes.īefore Disappointed Investment Man arrives, however, Mark’s cousin Justin (Ali Alkhafaji) has shown up, ready to help film some great footage of the town. It’s not really a ghost town at all but it clearly is a ghastly investment that means Mark and Jenna are effectively homeless: They sold their house and her car to help finance the purchase. But here’s one of many glitches in the story: He can upload video footage to the Internet to gain followers, but no one else can even get a cellular signal, particularly to call 9-1-1 when things get really weird?Īnd weird they get, because while Mark keeps having visions of Blackwood Falls as a huge tourist attraction with its own hotel, entertainment venues, etc, everyone else has since realized it’s a terrible idea. During the few days captured in the film, Mark’s video posts of their new home are apparently sufficient to gain him 500,000 followers, as he eagerly shares with his by-then freaked-out wife. This is only something slowly revealed in the indie horror film A Town Full of Ghosts, however, partially because of the rather tired device of found footage and partially because there’s just not much meat on these storytelling bones. Ah, but there’s the rub because it is a terrifying place with ghosts and endless mysterious occurrences. Worse, half the “ghost town” buildings are clearly recent construction so the town looks more like the result of a bored farmer with a construction hobby than an actual creepy, haunted town of terror. The problem is that the town of Blackwood Falls has a long, ugly, and horrifying history. Fisher) convinces his wife Jenna (Mandy Lee Rubio) that it’s the investment opportunity of a lifetime. ![]() An abandoned ghost town in the middle of nowhere, Texas? Sweet! Charismatic young entrepreneur Mark (Andrew C.
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