Ghost Game (2024)

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Ghost Game

To start with, Adam Cesare the author is having one of the best years in 2024 and has gotten the break that he deserves. He is a best-selling author and horror writer known for his suspenseful and engaging writing style. He has directed and screenplay of clowns in Cornfield series 3 which is due to launch this year in December. Additionally, horror genre fans of Ghost Game would also love to hear that Jill Gevargizian who is both a writer and director and writer of “The Stylist” is not going anywhere. This is good news. And especially for the followers of the genre. We have never seen two more different visionaries work together but the result is one compelling cinematic experience. Cesare and Jill G combine their very different styles and the result is a great film.

To put it more simply, is a rather fascinating tape that has a very dark irony to its narrative. Somewhat recently say a month ago or so I got an unhealthy obsession with an old YouTube channel belonging to someone called Ally Law. He was a British teen who used to do overnight challenges for views. Ally and a couple of friends would visit numerous stores closer to their closing hours and conceal themselves inside the stores till the workers had finished closing up and locked the doors.

Once the trampoline parks and gyms were let out for the evening, they would go out and do whatever they wanted; that included sneaking out at daybreak, or running away from the authorities if required. Or, as they are referred to in Britain, policeman officers. For some time now, I have also been working on a horror script, but then I saw the movie! Well played, Adam, you had an advantage over me and I accept that your writing is leagues above what I would have written.

The Game follows Laura (Kia Dorsey) and Adrian (Sam Lukowski), two online creators who take overnight challenges inside occupied homes. These are guided by Mr. Wattley (Aidan Hughes) and only serve to build the drama around ‘staged’ paranormal activities in the eyes of the owners. In a series of events, Laura’s new boyfriend, Vin (Zaen Haidar) drafts her into revealing what she does for a living, and from then she manages his work dynamic with her and Adrian. Laura’s latest exorcism sees Vin taking over Adrian’s place. However, it appears that their next destination is not quite what they are looking for. This also goes for the people who have recently bought the house.

Legend has it that these people have enough subscribers to obtain their needs even calling them influencers is an understatement to their level. Not to mention, movies made from someone’s computer have become the most notorious and overly done sub-genre, making the genre in general dull. This is a perfect blend of the two.

There is no doubt that Laura is on the bad side of the characters from the first scenes. While she is not outright evil, what she does to earn a living is very much an antagonistic one. But it should be noted that Game has a distinctly new style for screen life which isn’t quite in the typical vein of found footage. Rather, it is a sequence of torture that is being done to the creators of the content while the work portrays this as a new and regular film. This is beneficial to both the film and its viewers. Rather than waiting for an hour and a half in anxiety as Joseph Winters tries to figure out how to speak while clenching his teeth timidly, we have original ideas.

There are no weak performers in this film everyone is of star quality. But the crowning glory is Kia Dorsey. Every actor had to look for some extraordinary ways to perform against each other in a captivating and astonishing way, but nobody will be so magnificent as Kia Dorsey, who is destined to be a horror icon. She is a genre wizard, and no one else in America has devoted more time to the understanding of the genre, Laura is quite simply about her interpretation of the character which this genre has lacked for some time.

I despised how I perceived these found footage screenlife films, but if I portrayed Laura’s character as sincerely possessing a unique viewpoint, I’d have been okay with that to an extent. Because she excels at it.

With that said, the movie did this well, but there were a few rough edges here and there that were present which didn’t impede me from enjoying the movie. The single most significant flaw Game faces is the abysmal way it portrays its final stage. It simply ends. There could also be an issue of financing, or we could be dealing with an underdeveloped author who shies away from creativity Cesare claims to be all for those willing to set foot on a familiar path. And given how sluggish the pacing feels it’s surprising to me that the film clocks in at just twenty-five minutes and hour. A second specific concern about the film was that it was somewhat formulaic. A little, yes, but not enough to make me quit the cinema, although it is rather quite shocking.

Some rudimentary directors would have reduced the Game to a Found footage level but its strength is in the fact that it does not belong to a found footage category. If there is a plot revolving around the ghost-hunting craze and you are in the mood for something scary and amusing at the same time, then the movie is a must-have.

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