{"id":40783,"date":"2025-12-17T05:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40783"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:47:47","slug":"prisoners-of-the-ghostland-starring-nicholas-cage-sofia-boutella-and-bill-mosley-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40783","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Prisoners of the Ghostland&#8221; starring Nicholas Cage, Sofia Boutella and Bill Mosley \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z121725zview_prisonersghostland.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Prisoners of the Ghostland <\/strong><\/em>(2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Sion Sono<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley, Tak Sakaguchi<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an apopalyptic future, a bank robber known as Hero is saved from execution by the Governor of Samurai Town.\u00a0 Samurai Town is a settlement that is a mixture of Japanese and cowboy cultures.\u00a0 Outside of Samurai Town lies a barren wilderness known as Ghostland.\u00a0 Those that live in Ghostland are crazed outcasts who kill intruders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Governor offers Hero the option to survive.\u00a0 All Hero has to do is venture into the wasteland, find the Governor&#8217;s grown <em>&#8220;granddaughter&#8221;<\/em> (sex slave) who has run away, and safely return her to Samurai Town.\u00a0 Hero will have five days to complete the mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hero will wear a specially designed suit that contains explosive charges.\u00a0 Should he violate one of the rules explained by the Governor, a charge will explode.\u00a0 Should Hero fail to return in five days with the Governor&#8217;s <em>&#8220;granddaughter&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>all of the explosives in the suit will detonate.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I saw the trailer for <em>Prisoners of the Ghostland<\/em>, I thought it would be either a fun<em> Escape from New York<\/em> type movie or something just too weird for me.\u00a0 Sadly it was the latter.\u00a0 I tapped out at about 35 minutes when one of Hero&#8217;s test-e-quels is blown off.<\/p>\n<p>Not even Sofia Boutella was enough to make me want to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Cage has been quoted as saying that <em>Prisoners of the Ghostland<\/em> &#8220;might be the wildest movie I&#8217;ve ever made, and that&#8217;s saying something.&#8221; Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>As always, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Prisoners of the Ghostland <\/strong><\/em>(2021) rates 1 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_f.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z121725zview_prisonersghostland2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) Director: Sion Sono Screenplay: Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40784,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40783\/revisions\/40784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}