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The Ghost Lights
BandSAboutMovies28 August 2022
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Alex (Katreeva Phillips) is a journalist who returns home after the death of her estranged father Aurthur (John Francis McCullagh) and finds a cassette tape detailing the mysterious lights that he saw over the skies of West Texas and grew obsessed by. Her sister refuses to see her and had the funeral without her and she has no way to get closure so she decides to connect with her father by listening to the tape and following the path he went down.

As I've said before and will again about horror movies, never go back home. Never settle your family's affairs. Leave the past alone. That said, without this, we'd have no movie, so let's get into it.

Director and writer Timothy Stevens lays out this yarn in which Alex listens to the fifty-year-old tape of her father speaking to a man named Mario (Billy Blair) who sounds lucid yet explains how the ghost lights cause people to disappear and the men in black who are hunting him. As she gets closer to the true, she notices her very own man in black (Timothy Stevens) tailing her and visions of her father telling her to turn back.

It's an interesting take on a UFO movie, one that follows the stages of grief more than Majestic 12.
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The Eccchhh Files
tmccull522 December 2022
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I went into this movie with relatively low expectations. I knew that it was zero to low budget indie production with no big name stars, and that the subject was one that has been covered in countless other horror/sci-fi movies; mystery lights, possible alien abductions, and the menacing presence of Men in Black.

I has no problems with any of the performances, and found Katreeva Phillips to be oddly endearing. I liked her, liked her character. The one character that I did have an issue with was the "menacing" Man in Black that trailed and pursued her throughout the latter half of the movie. Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) would have seemed like Darth Vader compared to the man playing the Man in Black in this film. He projected all of the stoic menace of perhaps Woody Allen, or possibly Homer Simpson.

It was a decent effort, if entirely predictable and unremarkable. Seeing it once wasn't a waste of time, but seeing it again would be.
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