Wuchak
Effective snowy setting with haunting mood, but vacuous story
Celebrating New Years in the Alberta Rockies, three snowmobilers are forced to spend the night at a mountain hotel thats been defunct for five years.
Ghost Keeper (1981) was the precursor to similar horror flicks, like the soon-to-come Curtains and, especially, Chill Factor and Shadow Lake. Unfortunately, its the least of these. The first half is promising enough, but the second half just sort of fizzles out.
The director explained that he shot it in chronological order, but the production started to run out of money half way through. Rather than putting the kibosh on it, he forsook the remaining script and made things up as they went along with the intention of at...