Ghostkeeper

Ghostkeeper (1981)

Marty et Jennie, accompagnés par l’exubérante Chrissy, font une randonnée en motoneige dans les montagnes canadiennes. Leur périple les amène à découvrir un vaste hôtel perdu au beau milieu de nulle part et qui semble abandonné. Le trio est forcé de s’installer dans l’hôtel pour la nuit. Un petit jeu de séduction s’établit entre Marty et Chrissy tandis que Jennie ne se sent pas rassurée, persuadée qu’une présence rôde alentours. Ils ne vont pas tarder à faire la connaissance de la gardienne de l’hôtel, une vielle dame qui ne semble pas avoir toute sa tête et qui prétend vivre seule ici avec son fils...

Date de sortie
1981-12-01
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (55)
Durée
1 h 29 min
Genres
Horreur, Thriller
Réalisateur
Jim Makichuk

Distribution

Anecdotes

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.

Production

Ghostkeeper was co-written and directed by James Makichuk in his directorial debut, having started his career as a camera operator for local television stations before directing commercial ads. After three years of this, Makichuk would later admit that he had grown tired of the job and decided to make his next project a feature film.

Early on in the development process, the filmmakers chose the Deer Lodge, a winter hotel in Banff, Alberta as the primary filming location. For the film's antagonist, filmmakers drew inspiration from the Native American legend of the Wendigo, a cannibalistic spirit that possessed humans, roaming the wilderness in search of human flesh.

The majority of the cast were locally-hired actors in the Calgary area, with the exception being lead Riva Spier, who was an actress hired out of Montreal. For the majority of the cast, Ghostkeeper was their first and final film credit; Georgie Collins was primarily a well-known stage actress in Calgary, and was cast in the role of the mysterious elderly hotel proprietor.

John MacMillan, who stood 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) in stature, was cast in the role of the Windigo.

Ghostkeeper was filmed on location in Lake Louise and the Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The Deer Lodge Hotel in Banff was used as the primary shooting location, which was facilitated by screenwriter Doug MacLeod, who had previously worked at the hotel. Filming began on November 30, 1980, and finished on December 23, 1980. The film was photographed by cinematographer John Holbrook.

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