‘Ghost Tour’ Review

Erik Bloomquist is an up-and-coming young writer/director/actor who gained a lot of attention this summer with his short film The Cobblestone Corridor. He was also featured as a Top 200 director on Project Greenlight.

His latest offering Ghost Tour was released on Vimeo just in time for Halloween after a brief post-production stint on Kickstarter. The short video takes place on November 30th, 1973 and presents Richard Sawyer as he gives his final tour of a haunted facility that is to be demolished the following day. After many years as curator of the old school-turned-museum, he’s there when the ghosts finally reveal themselves.

Ghost Tour Short 1

The film is a brisk eight-and-a-half minutes, but it is a fully realized narrative that does not leave you wanting more. It is a perfect length for the story that Bloomquist is telling and any more time would have made the story drag. Shorts like these are a great format for horror films, and the emergence of Vimeo and YouTube as a tool for up-and-coming filmmakers as well as a spike-in anthology films like V.H.S. and The ABCs of Death have added a lot of legitimacy to the short format.

The short is shot very well. The color pallet and lighting immediately sell that the story takes place in the ’70s. It has the pacing of one of the growing, slow-burning horrors of the time which has also found a return to glory in recent years with films like House of the Devil and The Babadook. The writing and acting are also both very well done, and everyone involved should be very happy with the final product.

Ghost Tour Short 2

I would definitely recommend checking out Ghost Tour if you’re in the mood for a quick shot of horror. It definitely piqued my interest in The Cobblestone Corridor and Bloomquist’s first feature-length film Founders Day, which is currently in pre-production.

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