Ghostland is a horror movie, directed by Pascal Laugier, where someone’s dreams become a nightmarish reality.
The movie trails the tragic fate of a mother and her two daughters after inheriting a house from a relative who died. Colleen and her daughters during their first night encounter murderers in their new home. Fighting to save her daughters’ lives, the girls suffer a terrible trauma and their disparate personalities diverge even further.
The eldest daughter, Beth, is said to become a famous horror author with a perfect family, while her sister, Vera, can’t cope, and loses her mind to an unshakable sense of paranoia. Sixteen years later the daughters and mother reunite at the house where Colleen and Vera continue to reside. It is then that strange events begin to take place.
French director and screenwriter Laugier began his career with the two short films Tête de citrouille (1993) and 4ème sous-sol(2001). He kicked off his career in 2011 as assistant director of Christophe Gans’ period-fantasy-action film Brotherhood of the Wolf, where he also directed the ‘making-of’ documentary about the film.
A die-hard fan of the horror movie genre, Laugier then directed Saint Ange (2004), the infamous cult movie Martyrs (2008), adored by the horror audience, and The Tall Man (2012), his first English speaking film starring Jessica Biel.
“Ghostland is also the expression of the return of the repressed and perhaps of my ‘darkest side’ (laughs). If you’re afraid of displeasing by doing horror movies, then you should do something else,” said the director.
Ghostland opens March 31 in cinemas from Axinite Digicinema.