The Ghosts of Edendale

USA 2003
produced by
Marianne Connor, Stephen Wastell (executive) for Mixville 02
directed by Stefan Avalos
starring Paula Ficara, Stephen Wastell, Maureen Davis, Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe, Patrick Hasson, Ethan Grant, Robert Lane, Andrew Kirsanov (as Andrew Quintero), Jay Brown, Cynthia King, Nathan Lum, Arthur Guzman, Conor McCarthy, Terry A.O'Connell, Christine Charters, Scott Hale, Michael Kowalski, Casey Schatz
written by Stefan Avalos, music by Vincent Gillioz

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Rachel (Paula Ficara) and Kevin (Stephen Wastell) move to Edendale in the Hollywood Hills from the Eastcoast, hoping to get their careers as scriptwriters started. For Rachel it doesn't take long though to find the community inhabitating the Hill a tad weird and uncomforting, and thus she soon starts to suffer from writer's block. Kevin on the other hand is soon fully immersed in the community, writes almost nonstop - on a Western script, of all things - and gets a production deal before the screenplay is even half finished. Rachel eventually freaks out over everything that happens at Edendale including its weird community that she urges Kevin to leave, but he prefers to break up with her to destryoing what he has accomplished within the community - oh, and he kills her sister (Maureen Davis), who has just come by to help her pack. Rachel isn't allowed to leave unpunished either, she gets a visit from the ghosts of Edendale - cowboy characters from the time of the silent movies starring Tom Mix, who has actually once owned the hill Edendale was built on - and somehow, Tom Mix turns out to be a former incarnation of Kevin.

In the end, Rachel has gone completely bonkers and has become one of the Hollywood derelicts - while thanks to the Edendale community that looks after their own, Kevin has made it as a Hollywood bigshot ...

This is pretty much what you get if you cross-breed The Shining and The Stepford Wives - and throw a little bit of Tom Mix into the mix (excuse the pun). Unfortunately, Ghosts of Edendale is not half as good as either of the above movies, and the whole Tom Mix-angle of the story seems totally out of place within the context of the film, because apart from a few cowboy hats, there is absolutely nothing in this movie to remind one of the silent Westerns of old, and I would even go so far as to say that the director has never even seen a Tom Mix-movie - judging from this film, that is. But even when judging this film apart from its references, there is nothing much here to go for, this is a boring ghost story with a bit of mystery thrown in that's never really explored and a climax that just isn't one.

Really not worth watching.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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