Ghost Town

The film constructs its eerie tale by grafting the iconography of vampire lore onto the stark, moral landscape of the classic Western. It relies on the inherent isolation of the frontier town and the settlers' fear of the unknown to explore a different kind of territorial invasion—one that is supernatural and blood-borne.

What lingers after the final showdown is not the smell of gunsmoke, but the chilling idea that some legends are real and have followed civilization into the wilderness. — MovieFinder Editorial