Ghost Town
Reb Halland, who lives in the era of Wild West, has made a deal with the devil to gain immortality alog with his gang. Preacher McCready is trying to protect the small town by placing five totems around the town in the shape of pinnacle. One day, an collector passes by the town and sees one of the totems pinned to the earth and he decides to take it. When the man takes the totem out of ground Halland and his gang arrives and start killing everyone. The film moves to the present day when a group of college students driving back home from another city after a debate contest suddenly find themselves at this town. Soon they start to be murdered one by one, and it will be up to them to find the secret of this town and destroy Halland and his gang.
A spectral Wild West showdown that marries ghost town mythos with modern slasher beats, Ghost Town (2009) offers a gritty, if uneven, supernatural Western horror hybrid.
- Billy Drago’s venomous presence as the devil-immortal outlaw adds authentic menace to this low-budget genre mashup.
- Inventive kills — including a memorably grotesque gasoline vomit death — deliver practical-effect charm amid modest production values.
- Fans of haunted frontier tales and ghostly revenge narratives will appreciate its blend of Western iconography and slasher tropes.
- Uneven pacing and character depth hold it back, but its atmospheric canted shots and old-school TV horror vibe grant it cult curiosity status for patient genre explorers.
