Review: Ghost Team One


Carlos Santos and horndog roommate J.R. Villarreal (but you can call them Harold and Kumar) are told by the beautiful Fernanda (Fernanda Romero) that a ghostly spirit is haunting their house. A crazy, slutty Asian ghostly spirit. The trio decide to set up video cameras everywhere to try and capture some ghostly goings on, whilst Santos and Villarreal also try to get into Fernanda’s pants. Tony Cavalero plays their mean-spirited, racist, recovering drug addict roommate who is currently going through a phase of hating…well, everyone and everything.

 

If it weren’t for the charming and sexy Fernanda Romero, this 2013 horror comedy from directors Ben Peyser and Scott Rutherford would be truly unbearable. I’m not going to claim that Romero is the next big thing, but she’s interesting enough and hot enough to be remembered in this otherwise utterly forgettable film.

 

There’s something potentially amusing about the ineptitude of these characters, but not enough to make the grade. Scripted by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli there just isn’t enough material here for a full-length film. It should’ve been a fake trailer in another movie or a sketch/segment. Or better yet, one and all should’ve realised “A Haunted House” already did this and just pack up and go home.

 

None of the performances are bad, although I would’ve gotten rid of Tony Cavalero’s drug addict character, who really only serves a purpose at the climax. How it took two people to direct this film and two separate people to write it is beyond me. This just isn’t much of anything and most of it is like a wedding video shot by your drunken uncle (Just because you’re going for pseudo doco, doesn’t give you licence to shoot things appallingly badly). The camerawork is so bad early on that you don’t even really know that something paranormal is supposed to be going on.

 

But that Fernanda Romero, boy she’s got something. My heart for starters. Seriously, I think I’m in love and she needs to be in every movie ever made from this day forward. I won’t let this one little career mistake come between us.

 

Rating: D

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