Ever wanted to see Greenpeace play Ghostbuster? Ghost Rig can provide.
Ghost Rig
DVD
**
Directed by Julian Kean
Writing credits - Sally Charlton, Graeme Clapperton
Heather Peace .... Iona
Jaason Simmons .... Vincent
Noel Fitzpatrick .... Crawford
90min
R
2003
We
start off with this really choice visual of a helicopter in the middle
of a cloud bank. Seriously, it's beautiful, looking at this lone dot of
a helicopter in this sea of clouds.
The beauty doesn't last long
as the chopper lands on the deck of a massive oil rig, and the folks
onboard the chopper climb out and search the rig.
Ah, here we
go...the PLOT has arrived. Seems this particular rig, the "Janus", is
to be toppled over and sunk to the sea bed, where it will form a
"natural reef." The folks in the chopper belong to an environmental
activist group called "Action Planet," which sounds like a bad cable
network. "Action Planet" does not LIKE the idea of the Janus being sunk
to the sea bed to become project housing for tuna, and is occupying the
rig to prevent it from being sunk.
And, by the way...every one
of these "Action Planet" folks is very Scottish. It's no small
coincidence that the movie was funded by the Scottish Screen
lottery--their accents are thicker than fog on the moors.
"Action
Planet" discovers a fairly big problem--there's a bad storm coming up
on the "Janus" and the power's off throughout the rig. A party goes
forth to fix the latter problem, and manages to, after a fashion...the
backup generator only powers CRUCIAL systems.
And another
problem has cropped up for our beleaguered ecoterrorists--the crew is
missing. Somehow, a crew of twenty or so people has just plain vanished
off the deck of this oil rig, and can't be found anywhere!
Things
only get worse for "Action Planet" when their own people start dying
off in various attacks. Even the ground around them is tainted--the
reef was quarantined before "Action Planet" even arrived. AND, in the
basement, a giant pentagram has been drawn on the floor with chalk.
Boy, sounds like "Action Planet" should've just gone to the rain forests and stayed THERE, no?
"Action
Planet" becomes a smaller and smaller world after all, with members
steadily dying off until they begin to get a grasp on the situation.
The "Action Planet" survivors learn that their membership has been
possessed, repeatedly, by some form of ghost. The only way to tell
who's possessed? Well, look for the guy killing people left and right.
But for those who don't want to wait for the bloodbath, there's another
way to tell. Just look for the person with the rapid healing
capabilities. Apparently, the ghost doesn't like to be in a damaged
body--he's got to knit it back together before he can take it for a
spin.
And then, a fairly well put together ending takes place that I can't tell you about, other than to say that it's not half bad.
The
extra features are simple enough, Spanish-only subtitles and a trailer
gallery for "Jane White is Sick and Twisted," "Icebreaker," "Without
Evidence," "Atlantis Conspiracy," and of course, "Ghost Rig."
So,
all in all, Ghost Rig may be low-budget, but it's still pretty well
done, with even a pleasant homage to John Carpenter's "The Thing."
Ghost Rig
DVD
**
Directed by Julian Kean
Writing credits - Sally Charlton, Graeme Clapperton
Heather Peace .... Iona
Jaason Simmons .... Vincent
Noel Fitzpatrick .... Crawford
90min
R
2003
We
start off with this really choice visual of a helicopter in the middle
of a cloud bank. Seriously, it's beautiful, looking at this lone dot of
a helicopter in this sea of clouds.
The beauty doesn't last long
as the chopper lands on the deck of a massive oil rig, and the folks
onboard the chopper climb out and search the rig.
Ah, here we
go...the PLOT has arrived. Seems this particular rig, the "Janus", is
to be toppled over and sunk to the sea bed, where it will form a
"natural reef." The folks in the chopper belong to an environmental
activist group called "Action Planet," which sounds like a bad cable
network. "Action Planet" does not LIKE the idea of the Janus being sunk
to the sea bed to become project housing for tuna, and is occupying the
rig to prevent it from being sunk.
And, by the way...every one
of these "Action Planet" folks is very Scottish. It's no small
coincidence that the movie was funded by the Scottish Screen
lottery--their accents are thicker than fog on the moors.
"Action
Planet" discovers a fairly big problem--there's a bad storm coming up
on the "Janus" and the power's off throughout the rig. A party goes
forth to fix the latter problem, and manages to, after a fashion...the
backup generator only powers CRUCIAL systems.
And another
problem has cropped up for our beleaguered ecoterrorists--the crew is
missing. Somehow, a crew of twenty or so people has just plain vanished
off the deck of this oil rig, and can't be found anywhere!
Things
only get worse for "Action Planet" when their own people start dying
off in various attacks. Even the ground around them is tainted--the
reef was quarantined before "Action Planet" even arrived. AND, in the
basement, a giant pentagram has been drawn on the floor with chalk.
Boy, sounds like "Action Planet" should've just gone to the rain forests and stayed THERE, no?
"Action
Planet" becomes a smaller and smaller world after all, with members
steadily dying off until they begin to get a grasp on the situation.
The "Action Planet" survivors learn that their membership has been
possessed, repeatedly, by some form of ghost. The only way to tell
who's possessed? Well, look for the guy killing people left and right.
But for those who don't want to wait for the bloodbath, there's another
way to tell. Just look for the person with the rapid healing
capabilities. Apparently, the ghost doesn't like to be in a damaged
body--he's got to knit it back together before he can take it for a
spin.
And then, a fairly well put together ending takes place that I can't tell you about, other than to say that it's not half bad.
The
extra features are simple enough, Spanish-only subtitles and a trailer
gallery for "Jane White is Sick and Twisted," "Icebreaker," "Without
Evidence," "Atlantis Conspiracy," and of course, "Ghost Rig."
So,
all in all, Ghost Rig may be low-budget, but it's still pretty well
done, with even a pleasant homage to John Carpenter's "The Thing."
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