...it is not the gross-out factor that turns me off from Laugier’s second attempt at martyrdom, it is the casual virulence towards his characters...

| Dec 13, 2023

Laugier makes many questionable choices regarding the film's villains, but those issues aside he has still managed to craft a bleak, visceral and deeply upsetting horror film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 31, 2022

While Laugier delivers a fantastically tense home invasion thriller, the politics - from the misogyny, to the transphobic villain, to the reverence for H.P. Lovecraft - make his creative decisions virtually unforgivable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 28, 2022

Shock value for the sake of it, wrapped up in a half-baked story.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 27, 2021

The lighting in this film is amazing and... the set design was so fun and really interesting.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 9, 2021

Violent, creative, direct, scary, and even a bit sordid. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2019

...a shockingly incompetent effort from a once-promising director.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 25, 2019

Incident In A Ghostland feels especially ill-advised and disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 30, 2019

Beautiful, fascinating and overwhelming. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2019

With some aesthetic finding of merit, Laugier again exposes his tortures with a determination that is hardly bearable. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 23, 2019

Ghostland is a journey through known tropes... to satiate the [horror] fanatic's always demanding thirst. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2019

Incident in a Ghostland is a stunning look at the bonds of sisterhood and dealing with trauma.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 16, 2019

'Ghostland' gives us 91 minutes of a bloody, suffocating and simply fair nightmare that seems to belong to another era. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2019

A totally different animal to Laugier's Martyrs - and with much bigger teeth - but equally troubling and difficult to watch. An absolute must for fans of the genre's darkest side.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 5, 2019

Laugier's film is frightening and has much to say about trauma, as well as the various ways in which storytelling functions as a means of both escape and survival.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2019

Some great instances of violence and a clever script prove that Pascal Laugier is more than a one-trick pony.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2018

Ghostland manages to render conventional jump scares and plot twists original and fresh, instead of worn out.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 4, 2018

Desperately difficult to watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2018

The twist in Pascal Laugier's narrative is undermined by plot holes so large you could drive an ice cream truck through them, and the frankly silly ending only makes things worse.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2018

[The film] is a bad story, with a whiff of "we are too smart for the viewer", which only ends up proving otherwise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 23, 2018