Prisoners of the Ghostland to stream on Shudder

Director Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland, which “might be the wildest movie” star Nicolas Cage has ever made, is coming to DVD and Blu-ray on November 16th, and Amazon is accepting pre-orders at THIS LINK. But if you don’t want to own a copy of the film right away, if you’d rather check it out on a streaming service before deciding whether or not to buy it, we have some very good news: it’s going to be streaming just three days after its physical media release date. On November 19th, Prisoners of the Ghostland will begin streaming exclusively on Shudder and AMC+.

Described as a “delirious mash-up of Western, samurai, and post-apocalyptic thriller”, the film was written by Aaron Hendry and Reza Sixo Safai. It’s set

in the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, where a ruthless bank robber (Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within three days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman — and his own path to redemption.
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Bernice has “disappeared into a dark supernatural universe”, and Sono has said that “There are samurais, there are ninjas, and ghosts are part of the story as well.” Sono wouldn’t promise that this is Cage’s wildest film, but said if viewers “think that this is the wildest movie that he’s ever made, the craziest movie that he’s ever made, then I would be really really happy to hear that.”

Cage, Moseley, and Boutella are joined in the cast by Tak Sakaguchi, Yuzuka Nakaya, and Nick Cassavetes.

Our reviewers were a little split on this one. Chris Bumbray gave Prisoners of the Ghostland a 5/10 “below average” review that you can read HERE, while The Iceman thought the movie was worthy of an 8/10 “great” rating. You can read his review HERE. I haven’t watched it yet myself, but I definitely will be streaming Prisoners of the Ghostland on Shudder in November.

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