Right, well the movie's cover/poster actually had some appeal to it, with the design of the skulls in the mushroom cloud. And the title also was alluring. Sure, I had never heard about this 2022 horror movie from writer and director Brandon Walker as I sat down to watch it. But it being a horror movie was sufficient to make me watch it.
Talk about a swing and a miss. First of all, the movie is constructed like a god awful vlogging channel, where you follow one of these so-called "influencers". Yeah, as if that is something to be proud of. And I have to say that I was good and ready to turn off the movie already as it had just started, simply because I cannot take "influencers" seriously. But I opted to bite the lemon and stick with it, and yeah, I did manage to endure the entire movie.
The storyline in "Ghosts of Hiroshima" was not entertaining, and it fell short of providing me with much of any sense of enjoyment or entertainment. So writer and director Brandon Walker just failed here.
The acting in the movie was adequate enough. You're not in for anything grand, and the small cast ensemble virtually had next to nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline, interesting characters and such.
Visually then you're not in for anything grand either. There was a few attempts as jump scares in the movie, they didn't work on me, but points for trying.
For a horror movie then "Ghosts of Hiroshima" just didn't cut it. The movie came and went without any lasting impression, and it will slowly fade into oblivion, never to be taken out and watched for a second time.
My rating of "Ghosts of Hiroshima" lands on a two out of ten stars.
