Like Martyrs, though with less gore, Ghostland seems single-mindedly obsessed with the idea of making young women suffer. The structure feels fairly novel for such a B-grade fright-fest - call it Last Year at Amityville- but it’s soon outdone by the litany of torturous scenes that the director piles on one after the other. No sooner is this made clear then she receives a terrifying call from her sister, Vera (Anastasia Phillips), who still lives in that haunted house with their mom, prompting Beth to go back and visit the source of her trauma.Īnother major twist is still in store, with Laugier jumping between past and present, dream and reality, to keep catching the viewer by surprise. Not only is she a happily married mother, but she’s also a bestselling macabre author whose latest book (entitled “Incident in a Ghostland”) details the very incident seen at the start of the film. After their mother is brutally sacrificed on the kitchen table, Beth and Vera hide down in the basement as a mentally handicapped ogre (Rob Archer, credited as “Fat Man”) and his witch-like guardian with an Iggy Pop vibe (Angela Asher) subject them to an array of cruel and usual punishment.īut wait - was it all just a nightmare? That’s what we’re led to believe when Beth (Crystal Reed) wakes up screaming a decade or so later in a comfy Chicago highrise. With news reports of killings in the region, and an extremely menacing candy truck roaming the neighborhood (because, why not?), it doesn’t take long for the girls to fall victim to a prolonged and vicious attack right at their doorstep. Still, it’s neither for the faint of heart nor the sharp of mind, which should turn it into perfect VOD fodder for most territories.įollowing in the footsteps of fellow Frenchies Alexandre Aja ( High Tension), David Moreau and Xavier Palud ( Them), and Alexandre Bustillo ( Inside), Laugier tackles the well worn trapped indoors scenario with a considerable amount of carnage, trailing teenage sisters Beth (Emilia Jones) and Vera (Taylor Hickson) as they move out to the boondocks with their single mom, Pauline (Gallic pop star Mylene Farmer). Why any of this happens remains unclear, although Laugier does make some inventive narrative moves to render his Franco-Canadian, English-language effort more interesting than it should be. Like the director’s gory debut, Martyrs, which took the torture porn genre to untold levels of unpleasantness, this taut - if somewhat corny - slasher flick once again features two young women subjected to all kinds of abuse both real and imaginary (though mostly the former) as they’re locked inside by a pair of first-rate psychopaths. I imagine reading back words with the French voice and accent is better than me and my New York accent especially since I never took French in my life.Just when you thought it was safe to move to an isolated country house filled with creepy antique dolls, dead bugs and way too much floral wallpaper, in comes Ghostland, a violently twisted take on the home invasion tale from French horror junkie Pascal Laugier.
My grand-daughter is only 3, but she's already learning French. They also have other languages for downloading. Hey, I could type up keyboard shortcuts and have this appication repeat them back to me over and over again. Also would be great for on-the-go-learning on an iPod or a laptop.
With Adobe upgrading CS as often as it does it'd be nice to listen and learn instead of jumping back and forth from book to application. I'd really like this program to read tutorials. Hopefully these voices are more natural because listening to long text with an un-naturally sounding voice gets painful. Hopefully I can check out Ghostreader before the offer expires. If you have dial-up like me, expect a 1 day, 4 hour, 46 minute download.
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The download will require a separate download for voices. The pronunciation of the word "wind" was correct -and different- in each instance. "Blowing in the wind I need to wind my clock." It took me about 2 minutes to type the text and have Ryan read it.ĭue to an earlier comment I also tried this text: Using Ryan's voice is a vast improvement, at least to my ears.
I typed some of Alex's speech found here: Not all sound great, and additional languages are $25 For instance, only 5 US English voices and of those only one is an adult male. My complaints would be that the included voices are too few. I have not customized any GhostReader voices in terms of speed, volume, or pronunciation, but these features are available. I liked Narrator's ability to automatically combine different voices, but the sound quality was inferior. I compared it with Narrator and OS X's included text-to-speech, and immediately noticed GhostReader's superiority. I bought my copy in 2008, and have received multiple updates for free.
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