Cleopatra Entertainment, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has set Jan. 24 as the release date for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of director Francesco Cinquemani’s The Ghosts of Monday.
A good magician uses misdirection to set up a good trick and that’s what Cinquemani (Christmas Thieves, Beyond the Edge, Lockdown Generation) uses in this classic haunted house thriller. The obvious … and then the twist!
First, we have the haunted house. The Hotel Gula on the Island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean, where a series of unexplained deaths have occurred over the years. Perfect.
Next, you have the “victim pool,” which comes packaged as a television production crew on location to shoot a reality show about the aforementioned unexplained killings.
So how do you make something we’ve likely seen several times before interesting … magic and misdirection.
It begins with the tension between the show’s producer, Eric (Mark Huberman — Vikings: Valhalla, Band of Brothers), and the show’s star/host Bruce (Julian Sands — Warlock, Arachnophobia, Naked Lunch, etc.), who just so happens to be the father of Eric’s ex-wife, Sofia (Marianna Rosset), who is also part of the production. Bruce just wants to get this segment shot and in-the-can, suggesting that they fake it … a few spirits (some CGI) and call it a day.
That doesn’t sit well with Eric. And, it doesn’t help that Sofia is getting bad vibes from the new owners of this horror hotel … and starts seeing “things.”
From the beginning, Eric just doesn’t seem “right” … there is something off about him. There is something definitely off about Sofia. But, that’s to be expected in a haunted house thriller.
It’s the third act is where the misdirection of filmmaker Francesco Cinquemani pays off … the twist; the reveal; the terror.
The Ghosts of Monday on DVD and Blu-ray on Jan. 24 to learn the film magician’s secret.
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