Director Roland Emmerich isn’t known for making the best movies; but films like Independence Day, 2012, and the Puff Daddy-infused Godzilla remake seem like stone cold masterpieces compared to one of his early works; 1987’s Ghost Chase, AKA Hollywood Monster, AKA a movie that will make you beg for the logical consistency of Moonfall.
Essentially, Ghost Chase is E.T. but with a dead butler. Let me say that again: this movie is Steven Spielberg’s family classic E.T. but with a deceased manservant instead of a lovable alien. It follows two young filmmakers, Fred and Warren, as they try to make it in Hollywood – and when we say young, we mean young. They look like two 14-year-olds who conned their way into this production Catch Me if You Can-style.
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Warren inherits an antique clock from his dead grandfather – naturally, it’s haunted. Fred meanwhile starts having nightmares involving the grandfather and his diminutive butler, then he decides that their latest film project (which, by the way, is already in production) should now be about these random dead real-life characters. And instead of casting, say, a human being in the role of the butler, he builds an animatronic puppet to play the part, using whatever the opposite of Hollywood magic is.
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Centropolis Film Productions