The Ghoul

Laura Clifford

Writer/director Gareth Tunleys moebius strip of a movie is a puzzle piece like Memento crossed with the satanic tone of executive producer Ben Wheatleys Kill List and Simon Rumleys The Living and the Deads unsettling portrait of mental illness. ( Read More )

Jonathan Dean

Chriss depression is well drawn out, but when the film broadens into vague questions about the occult, it becomes unfocused, before finishing up with a hammy scene that undoes much of the careful characterisation that came before. ( Read More )

David Parkinson

Deadpanning for all hes worth, Meeten makes a compelling antihero and hes ably abetted by a supporting cast intent on giving nothing away. ( Read More )

Kim Newman

Tom Meeten is a likely breakout British character star and Gareth Tunley is an ambitious, obviously talented filmmaker. ( Read More )

The Ghoul is entertaining enough for what it is, but best left in the vaults if youre not a Karloff completist. ( Read More )