Ghosts in the Hollow is an atmospheric short film by author and photojournalist, Jim Lo Scalzo, which documents the abandoned coal towns of Appalachia. The imagery here pressed pretty much all of my buttons. These forlorn places are creepy, filmic and elegiac.
Ghosts in the Hollow from Jim Lo Scalzo on Vimeo.
I found the short film very nostalgic, as a tribute to the coal miners who worked hard in those towns. In my opinion the creepy abandoned rooms were seen more as shrines as sites with a lot of story to tell, instead of old scary places. I kept trying envisioned how they would have looked back in the day. The music was the factor which helped understand the short film this way.
ReplyDeleteIndeed - the final shots certainly make you personalise the locations. Problem is I've seen one too many 'red neck' anxiety horror movies: Deliverance, The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, The Descent, TBWP, Cabin Fever, Friday the 13th (the list does indeed go on) - in which this kind of rural backwoods US of A is not a place in which to get lost or have your car break down...
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