Ghostkeeper (1981)

Directed by

Jim Makichuk

Genre

horror film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

R

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three snowmobilers get lost in the Canadian Rockies and find shelter in an old abandoned hotel. The elderly woman who runs the place is hiding a malevolent spirit in the building.

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What happens

Ghostkeeper is a 1981 Canadian supernatural slasher film directed by James Makichuk, and starring Riva Spier, Georgie Collins, and Murray Ord. Its plot centers on a trio of snowmobilers in the Canadian Rockies who become stranded at an abandoned hotel where the elderly female innkeeper is hiding an evil entity within the building. The film is inspired by the Windigo legend of North America. Filmed in Banff, Alberta under a tax shelter in December 1980, the film had an unstable financial situation and the filmmakers nearly halted the production mid-way through due to depletion of its budget. The film was given a brief theatrical release in Canada and was released directly to video in the United States by New World Pictures. It has attained a cult following in the years since its release. The independent cult label Code Red Releasing later acquired the film, and released on DVD for the first time in April 2012. In August 2017, they reissued the film on Blu-ray featuring a new 2K scan of the original film elements. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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