Broken Ghost (2017)
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Detailed summary:
Teenager Imogen Day and her parents Samantha and Will move to Montana to escape the past. Desperate to make a new life for herself, Imogen must overcome new tormentors, old secrets, and a strange presence in the house.
Well-meaning parents Samantha (Scottie Thompson) and William (Nick Farnell) move across the country to a rural part of Maine to help their daughter Imogen (Autry Haydon-Wilson) escape the fallout from a viral video.
The family gets their new country home cheap on account of the previous owner, a seemingly normal artist, killing his wife and daughter inside before taking himself out. Unfortunately, secrets have a way of finding their way home.
As the family tries to settle into their new place,
its history begins to absorb them. Townspeople whisper and Imogen’s classmates speculate as secrets bubble to the surface.
Early on, we know the Day family is running from a scandal so salacious that Grace has changed her name and her dad has become a nervous wreck. It’s a creeper classmate who reveals to us this secret: Grace (A.K.A. Imogen) was in a sex tape. While the sex was consensual, its recording was not. But that didn’t stop bullies from pushing her to self-harm and chasing her to flee the life she knew. With a new name, a bad dye job, and some spray-tan, this teen girl tries to start over. But even if she’s ready to move on, her dad is not.
Those porn vids that Will’s been watching? That’s him trying to make sure her video hasn’t resurfaced. That doesn’t explain why he watches them with the volume on, or why he watches them at all. Thumbnails are useful! However, it is meant to explain why Will can’t perform with his wife. Being frankly faced with his daughter’s emerging sexuality, he has gone impotent. It’s a mental block that he’ll blame first on Samantha, claiming she’s not supportive enough of his work. Then he blames Grace to her face, claiming not only that her video is why he can’t bed her mom, but also why her mom sought sexual gratification with a bearded drifter. “Ever since that screwing video surfaced, I can’t function,” he yells, “I’m not a man, so I can’t work.” In this blame-throwing frenzy, Will even pulls a gun on his wife and offspring, but he fires it at the ceiling, leading to the film’s final, most shocking, and stupidest reveal.
MAJOR spoilers
Will was right. There is no ghost. Instead, it’s a squatter on the run after killing a pair of bikers who were his criminal colleagues.
Yup. This is another “boy in the walls” movie. This twist is revealed after Will fires that shot into the ceiling. The family goes to bed,
and Grace hears a raspy voice call her name while bl..d drips onto her from a light fixture. She goes to the attic and has a confoundingly casual conversation with the intruder, treating him like a trusted friend. Flashbacks reveal wanted killer Jason Adair (John Teague) creeping around the house’s crawl space to spy on porn-surveying dad, unsatisfied mom, and suicidal Grace.
Why did he torment her parents? Unclear! All he’ll say is he stuck around because Grace seemed like she could use some help. And why ask further questions of the murderous motherfucker lurking in your walls?
Ignoring a bunch of loose ends, Broken Ghost rushes to build an unlikely bond, suggesting this killer is a better father figure than Will. Which, maybe, but that’s a low bar.
Will felt impotent in his attempts to protect Grace, which impacted his creativity and sex drive. So he took out his frustrations on his wife and offspring. He is a failure as a father, husband, and a man. But Jason, who is more traditionally masculine, succeeds where Will fails. He’s a macho biker who uses his fists to protect Grace, his hard dick to please Samantha, and his gun to k..l those who invade his space. In Broken Ghost,
what defines a man is screwing and fighting. Yet putting all this aside, Jason is unexpectedly the one who encourages Grace to overcome the shame of her video.
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