A Town Full of Ghosts

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the 2022 horror movie titled "A Town Full of Ghosts" prior to sitting down to watch it. And had I been familiar with it and known it was a 'found footage' movie, I wouldn't have given the movie the time of day. I absolutely loathe that subgenre of movies, as they are usually nothing more than amateurish attempts to make movies with a handheld camera.

The storyline in "A Town Full of Ghosts", as written by writer and director Isaac Rodriguez, was actually not all that bad. But the movie suffered terribly from being a 'found footage' movie, and that totally drained away my will and interest to really delve into this movie. Suffice it to say that I didn't stick around to the end of this ordeal.

The whole concept of 'found footage', social media video-makers, content makers, influencers, or whatever these type of losers call themselves, just doesn't appeal to me. And thus, "A Town Full of Ghosts" was a bitter pill to swallow.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but then again, I can't claim that I was particularly impressed or bedazzled by what I witnessed on the screen, as I just can't take the 'found footage' genre seriously.

Visually, then you're not in for anything grand here.

If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and skip on this one. It just simply isn't worth the effort. If you, however, enjoy the travesty that is 'found footage' films, then you might enjoy this 2022 movie from writer and director Isaac Rodriguez.

My rating of "A Town Full of Ghosts" lands on a two out of ten stars.

I think the short run time of this film means it doesn't over stay it's welcome, or have pacing issues. Found footage isn't always great, because too much shaky cam gives me headaches. This is better than most found footage as a whole.

I liked the fact it's done from the perspective of someone trying to do up a ghost town, and post it on social media. He brings in a cousin who is better at camera work. Which I think is a great excuse to have nicer looking footage.

The acting is great, and I like the fact it slowly gets creepy before hell breaks loose. It had a great atmosphere, and I think the location helps with that a lot. The location is stunning.

I didn't like the weird stripe effects at the end, like why??

This movie is yet another "Found Footage" farce which centers around a fake ghost town which is obviously a kiddie theme park that is explained away with nonsense about it being a "real" town that was developed into a theme park, talk about the need for suspension of disbelief!!!

It was long, boring and had very little storyline or action. It rips off the storyline of "The Shining" but presented in a "Blair Witch" format. The acting is surprisingly good, but the writing is a pitiful excuse for a script -THERE IS NO STORYLINE AT ALL!!! The characters were believable enough with the single exception of the caretaker "Billy" who seems to be a catch all stereotype of a Tex-Mex and Indian characters. Its huge difference with the Blair Witch movies is that the last 30 seconds of Blair Witch actually gave us a shock, whereas this film is a dud and goes out with a disappointing whimper. It was a waste of film and a waste of your time!

I thought it was a pretty decent FF movie.

The whole town setting was great and had a good crewp vibe to it. I wish they would have had a few more jump scare@ but all in all definitely worth a watch.

I actually seldom watch footage found movies as they give me a headache with shaky camera work. I also have low expectations for these type of indie films. However I will say that this exceeded my expectations. I was pleased that it was not even an hour and a half long and it kept my interest the entire time. The acting was halfway decent and the photography was pretty good as well. The setting was kind of creepy as another reviewer has said. I thought the maze scenes were effective. It was almost giving me some The Shining vibes. I wouldn't say it was particularly scary, but more a slow buildup to a pretty good ending. My rating is for a comparable film of this genre so keep that in mind. I don't compare these type of movies to Academy award-winning films. So the ratings to movies for me are according to genre and budget. All in all I think this was above average for a found footage type of movie. I was pleasantly surprised.