Ghost Town

Name: Ghost Town
Genre: Horror, Western, Crime
Released: 1988-05-26
Rating: 5.2

The good. The bad. The Satanic.

HorrorWesternCrime1h 25m

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Tomatometer

5.2

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Storyline

Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman.

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Details

DirectorRichard Governor

ReleasedMay 26, 1988

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

$75.1K

Parental guideRUS

Studios

Empire PicturesLexin Productions IncTrans World Entertainment

Reviews

5 reviews · 4 critics

4 fresh · 0 rotten

Keith Uhlich

RTTime OutDec 19, 2020

A rewarding portrait of the rundown Southwest Chinese town of Zhiziluo.

Nick Schager

RTSlant MagazineApr 14, 2010

Zhao Dayong's Ghost Town paints a haunting trifurcated portrait of people set adrift by forced large-scale economic and cultural transformations.

Michael Phillips

RTChicago TribuneApr 14, 2010

How does a massive, uneasily modernizing nation feeds its people? That question, in all its facets, is the river running through Ghost Town, and the waters are rarely clear.

Ethan Alter

RTNYC Film CriticMar 24, 2010

"Superficial" is one word that can't be used to describe Zhao Dayong's Ghost Town.