[Once
again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for
the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The
Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded. Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can
pull it off this year.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
In 2008, Pascal Laugier wrote and directed MARTYRS, a
visually stunning, thought provoking, and transgressive horror classic. Laugier
was hailed as a new icon of horror cinema. There was an English language remake
of MARTYRS, and there was talk that Laugier would helm a remake of his
own, of Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER. But the MARTYRS
remake fared poorly, and due to disputes with the producers, Laugier left the HELLRAISER remake.
Instead, for his first English language film he made
the stylish but disappointing thriller THE TALL MAN in 2012, which deservedly went
straight to video. Still, I was hoping INCIDENT IN A GHOSTLAND
might be a return to form.
