Movie Review: Ghost Track (2022)
Ghost Track is a horror/thriller film written and directed by Jason M.J. Brown. It’s about a group of friends who, as children, crossed over some train tracks, and one of them named Morris didn’t make it. He was struck by the train and killed. Now, he’s back as a ghost and wants revenge!
The first thing we should probably address is the premise of this film. There are going to be some mild spoilers in here, but it’s not going to be easy to review this and have it make sense unless we can provide some context. The premise, as described above, is about a child (Morris) who was struck by a train. The kids didn’t push him in front of the train. They didn’t really have anything to do with his death. He just tried to cross too late and the train hit him, killing him. There is a recurring dialogue about how the other kids “left him behind”, but there wasn’t a lot that could have been done. The kid literally tripped when crossing. It was his own fault. Now years later he is haunting the rest of them as adults for his own mistake. The entire premise of this story just doesn’t make sense. To add to that, the kids didn’t just leave him behind or leave him for dead, he was splattered by a train. There was nothing anyone could have done to help him.
As the film continues, Morris keeps coming back and tries to attack members of the group with a butcher knife, because, why not? At first, he shows up in someone’s apartment, and there is actually a good creepy moment there. After that, though, there aren’t really a lot of scares. There weren’t really any times when there was much actual “horror”. There could have been some better sound effects, which would have probably added more to the atmosphere. Or just some better scoring. At times, the music didn’t fit the scene or didn’t change at all when it should have.
Overall, Ghost Track is more of a thriller than a horror film. It didn’t really have a lot going for it in the horror and scare categories. The writing could have used another set of eyes, and, while we don’t usually criticize production quality, there were some things that could have been done much better within the resources available. Even the acting wasn’t bad for what the actors were working with. We would say that this definitely had promise, but the entire movie was based on something that didn’t make sense. Even the twist at the end was not very impactful due to the same reasoning. Brown may have fallen victim to the same tunnel vision we have seen in a lot of indie projects where the writer is also the director. They probably have a vision for how perfect the script is going to transfer to film, but if it doesn’t make sense on paper, it won’t make sense on screen.
Ghost Track is available to stream here on Prime Video, and it is also available on DVD:
