This isn’t Ghostwatch.
This is like a local news affiliate tried to do their own Ghostwatch.
I mean that as a compliment.
This is less of a movie you sit down and watch with rapt attention — it’s designed to be enjoyed in the background while folding laundry, or carving pumpkins on an autumn night.
It’s not a story wrapped in a nostalgic guise or setting — it IS the setting.
New Old Stock for 1980’s slice of life television.…
Look, this is masterfully fun.
Not a “so bad it’s good”, it’s just either in your wheelhouse, or you’re just a very nice person who should absolutely treat themselves to a equally nice plain yogurt.
Wasted interviews with those affected due to the almost aggrandizing and unnecessary use of AI generated Forrest Gumpery to give the criminal more presence by having it read his fucking book instead of just letting an actor, or those affected read the passages.
Disclaimers don’t make it better.
Thought this was gonna be one of the rare bigger budget rehash sequels that shaved the sharp edges off the “cowboys shooting people to glam rock” premise that was too cool to be true the first time.
Nope. Fuck.
Estevez is playing a stupider caricature (which worked for Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead 2), but suuucks here.
There’s a frame narrative with him in old man makeup, and doing a terrible impression of an old man — funnier now that…
