Prisoners of the Ghostland - #024

What the hell even is this movie? A live action anime, a western, a samurai film, a post-apocalyptic grind house thriller, an art piece, an assault on the senses, the weirdest most annoying film I’ve watched in years? Maybe all of the above. So, strap in as we breakdown the movie Nicolas Cage says is the wildest film he’s ever made, for better or worse: Prisoners of the Ghostland.

In the frontier city of Samurai Town (not a joke) a ruthless bank robber named Hero (also not a joke) is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord whose adopted granddaughter has gone missing in a shadowy region known as the ghost land. In exchange for freedom, Hero must retrieve the girl within five days while strapped in a self-destructing suit or have his limbs blown off one by one.

Prisoners of the Ghostland reteams Nic with his Face/Off co-star Nick Cassavetes, stars Algerian Golden Raspberry nominated actress Sofia Boutella, perennial horror movie veteran Bill Mosely and of course, the only man who can have a testicle blown off and keep on going, Academy Award winner and the Hero of this bewildering pandemonium, Nicolas Kim Coppola, better known as Nicolas Cage.