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Mark and
Stacey have just gotten married and decide to
go live in South Africa since Mark owns a farm there,
but there will be no "happily ever after" for this
couple as Mark soon ends up dying in a car accident.
After the funeral, Stacey decides that the best thing
for her to do is simply to stay on the farm, but she
soon finds herself impregnated by the spirit of her
dead husband. Nine months later, all hell breaks loose.
Lamberto Bava's return to the horror scene after 15
years is a quite the catastrophe. Ghost Son feels like
a poor Hallmark production with zero entertainment value.
It's drawn-out, it's spectacularly ludicrous and it's
so bland that you could never have guessed that this
was directed by the same man who brought us movies like
Body Puzzle, Demons and Delirium.
Stacey and Mark is a newly-wed couple who lives on a
farm in South Africa. One day Mark dies in a car
accident, leaving Stacey alone in the big old house.
She soon starts getting visits from her dead husband's
spirit, who at first seems relatively harmless, but
turns out to be a demon. After getting raped by her
demonic husband, she gets pregnant. Nine months later
she gives birth to a baby boy, who turns out to be
quite the handful.
Does it sound like The Omen? Well it's not, it's more
along the lines of 666: The Demon Child (not the Asylum's
Omen rip-off, but a cheap low-budget horror flick from
2004). The baby, which by the way sounds like a spider
when it runs around in the hallway for some unexplained
reason, turns out to be the reincarnation of Mark. But
what caused Mark to become an evil demon? The only
explanation we got was that he was upset that Stacey
wanted to keep on living without him, but to me that
felt a bit far-fetched (understatement of the year?).
For the first half of the movie the movie plays like a
TV-drama where we we're supposed to fall in love with
the two main characters. Something which I found very
difficult to do since the acting was incredibly bad.
The relationship between Mark and Stacey feels very
forced and poor Laura Harring (playing Stacey) looks
like she's about to throw up every time she has to
kiss a fully nude John Hannah (Mark).
I'm very disappointed with this movie and if you're a
Lamberto Bava fan, I think that you should avoid this
movie since it could damage your opinion of him as a
director. I wouldn't be surprised if this ended up
going straight to TV because it feels like a TV-movie
in every possible way. Even if the cinematography is
good and the movie is technically well-done, I see
no reason to why you should check this drama thriller out.
It's Bava, at least we get some gore right? Nope, we
get some shattered glass in ones foot and some broken legs.
The theme melody, which was either whistled or hummed
by children, was played in almost every scene. It was
okay at first but became very repetitive after a while.
It's unfortunate that the master of horror has stooped
to this level. Ghost Son is a cheesy drama-thriller
which wants to be a suspenseful horror movie in the
vein of The Omen - something which it fails badly at.
Stick to Lamberto's 80's horror flicks instead as they
are a whole lot more entertaining than this was.
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