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A soaring triumph of the cinematic imagination, conspicuously gifted first time feature director, Gareth Tunley's audaciously inventive, compellingly strange, reality-warping psychodrama,'The Ghoul' is a divinely disturbing, almost wholly interior Detective story that teasingly opens up a perception tweaking wormhole of cans, and, perhaps, if fellow agitators, Ken Russell or Donald Cammell had turned their mischievous Mise-en-scène to creating a more psychotronically-inclined Scandi-Noir it just might resemble something like 'The Ghoul'.
Both text, earnest performances, and filmmaking are all of an exemplary standard, and the dizzyingly off-kilter journey into Chris's (Tom Meeten) increasingly metaphysical madness happily proves to be a rewardingly convoluted one! Tunley's theologically trippy, deliriously circuitous, starkly intimate nightmare is moodily set to a spare, yet immersive score by composer, Waen Shepherd. Fans of 'Enemy' (2013), 'Predestination' (2014), and the similarly tweaked, 'The Rambler' (2013) are sure to find The Ghoul's assured transport into a palpably tormented mind scape not only intriguing, but one that provided a rewardingly oblique conclusion. I went into 'The Ghoul' not quite knowing what to expect from it, which ultimately made this uniquely inward experience that much more thrilling.
'At its very best, 'The Ghoul' delivers bracingly raw, paradigm-shifting midnight movie weirdness that marches to the blackened occult off-beats of its very own drum! Forbidding, psilocybin vibes and macabre metaphysics infuse each macabre, membrane mistreating frame!...probably best not to operate any heavy machinery after watching this one, dude!' - Weirdlingwolf.
Both text, earnest performances, and filmmaking are all of an exemplary standard, and the dizzyingly off-kilter journey into Chris's (Tom Meeten) increasingly metaphysical madness happily proves to be a rewardingly convoluted one! Tunley's theologically trippy, deliriously circuitous, starkly intimate nightmare is moodily set to a spare, yet immersive score by composer, Waen Shepherd. Fans of 'Enemy' (2013), 'Predestination' (2014), and the similarly tweaked, 'The Rambler' (2013) are sure to find The Ghoul's assured transport into a palpably tormented mind scape not only intriguing, but one that provided a rewardingly oblique conclusion. I went into 'The Ghoul' not quite knowing what to expect from it, which ultimately made this uniquely inward experience that much more thrilling.
'At its very best, 'The Ghoul' delivers bracingly raw, paradigm-shifting midnight movie weirdness that marches to the blackened occult off-beats of its very own drum! Forbidding, psilocybin vibes and macabre metaphysics infuse each macabre, membrane mistreating frame!...probably best not to operate any heavy machinery after watching this one, dude!' - Weirdlingwolf.