Pascal Laugier's latest film turned me every which way but loose! There were elements that stood out namely a mother's love for her children and the lengths she'll go to protect them and more importantly the love between two sisters and what one is willing to endure for the sake of that love! The mother and the daughter's bond was unbreakable.. You can conquer the body but you can't conquer their spirit! A brutally intense home invasion film with a creep factor off the freakin' charts! It definitely got the ole ticker working overtime! Translation : Accelerated heart palpitations equals totally invested ;-)

But it also had its negatives.. It doesn't always make sense and we have no backstory whatsoever…

"Ghostland" or "Incident in a Ghostland" is the fourth film written and directed by French director Pascal Laugier and, as his masterpiece "Martyrs" (2008), this film is also surrounded by controversy. This time not so much about the extremely violent content (despite having received some criticism saying that the film is "mean-spirited"), but due to an accident during the filming.

Actress Taylor Hickson, who plays Vera, suffered an ugly cut on her face during the filming of a scene where the producers asked her to knock herself against a glass door. The glass was real and the door shattered. She received 70 stitches and is now, justifiably, suing the film's production.

Some people even accuse the producers of alluding to…

Incident in a Ghost Land is the latest film from writer/director Pascal Laugier, most notable for his 2008 feature Martyrs, a movie with a long standing place on my "needs to be rewatched" list because while I did enjoy it (which is more than I can say about his other movies now), I have never felt the love for it that most in the horror community seem to have. In fact the more I've thought about it, the less I've cared for it and...well, that's just something I'll have to unpack when I finally watch it again.

As for this film, my interest in it was quite subdued after my experience with The Tall Man, but the controversy about the…

Una madre e due Sorelle devono affrontare una strega e un orco. Avvincente Horror che riesce a bilanciare perfettamente il conflitto interiore con quello esteriore, certo non inizia benissimo con un viaggio molto cliché pieno d'esposizione ma arrivati alla casa i difettucci spariscono e si dipinge un violento turbine dell orrore pieno di idee che cambia continuamente volto. Amai molto Martyrs e il tocco di Laugier si nota parecchio, lui è un sadico che ama far soffrire le sue protagoniste e forse anche io sono un po' sadico perché mi piace vederle disperate, urlanti, prese a pugni come dei pugili, ma è cosi che bisogna fare, solo in questo modo le vittorie in una storia possono funzionare, solo attraverso delle…