A sextet of youngsters - three boys, three girls - want to go to Mexico
to party, but their car breaks down on a deserted dust road, and they
think they are lucky to make it to a ghost town where a spooky caretaker
even gives them accomodation in the local hotel. Thing is, there's a ghost
roaming the ghost town, a ghost gunfighter (hence the title), and before
you know it, he has killed the caretaker and half of the teen gang. The
other half finds out the secret of the ghost gunfighter, which weirdly
enough is reenacted everyday at noon: He was a cowboy actor named Dylan
madly in love with Jessica (Stacie Randall), the leading lady of the film
they were shooting in the ghost town many years back. Jessica though was
in love with her co-star Charleston, so Dylan decided to load his gun with
real bullets for the showdown of the film and shoot pretty much everybody
on set. Fortunately for the surviving teens, one of them, Heather, looks
exactly like Jessica (and is thus also played by Stacie Randall), and when
the events are once again reenacted at noon, she dresses like her and
distracts Dylan. And since the teens were also clever enough to have his
real bullets re-replaced with blanks, the whole affair soon turns to their
favour, and ultimately they manage to kill the ghost gunfighter ... upon
which all the killed teens come back to life again and they continue their
way to Mexico to party ... Yet another cheaply made slasher
movie from a period when slasher movies have run their course and the
genre hasn't made its comeback yet. Now all this is not bad in itself, Ghost
Gunfighter the movie however is, a film that invests next to no new
ideas into its tried and true story and is carried by actors who seriously
lack talent, characters that hardly exceed cardboard quality and a
directorial effort that is at best functional. And even the Western
elements that could have meant a welcome change from the stale formula do
surprisingly little to distinguish the film from others of its ilk. Not
worth your time and money.
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