We’ve got Ghost Town, the movie!

The Asheville Film Festival is proud to announce that “Ghost Town, the movie” will be playing at the 2007 Asheville Film Festival. This movie has gotten quite a bit of buzz on our discussion boards and we’re happy to have it in Asheville come November.

This unique “eastern” Western is North Carolina native Dean Teaster’s tribute to his father Robert Doyle Teaster and the Ghost Town In The Sky theme park. 

Combining factual information about his great-great-grandfather Harold and the best elements of the staged gunfights at Ghost Town In The Sky, the story paints a picture of the beautiful mountain region settled by the Celtic people, whose rich traditions and true grit allowed them to survive and thrive during the rugged 1800’s.  With a slight romantic edge, the film is full of messages about love, hate, family, forgiveness, redemption and sacrifice.

For the trailer for “Ghost Town,” along with more information about the movie, visit our Features section.


Posted by David Forbes | Posted on 10/03/07 | 12 Comments Below digg Digg Link

This movie honestly rocks. I heard they were making this movie at Ghost Town and I thought...great a kiddie movie BUT I went to a showing and...it was beyond what I thought it would be. I read the description above and it is Harmon Teaster not Harold:) Bill McKinney best know from First Blood, The Green Mile, Outlaw Josey Wales steals the show and I like the actor who played his son. I looked him up and he actually had quite a few credits. I know Robert Bradley or I should say I’ve met him along witha million people at the park and he is 100% convincing. I will be coming to Asheville from Canton home of the Cowboy! Will he be coming?

Billy Corwin

Oct 03, 2007
at 09:31 PM


Ha! I saw that they have the wrong name as well. Harmon Teaster is a true folk hero and I think it is great that someone made a movie of him even if it is fictionalized. I really like the story...I did see it at the Eagle Nest and look forward to seeing it at the festival. I liked the love story and also was excited to see Renee O’Connor in a western. She looks great! The father actor McKinney was scary and it wasn’t until I read it in the paper that he was the actor from DELIVERANCE with Cowboy Coward. I’ve seen him at his booth in Canton and he was sweet as pie. Good to see him play a hero like Harmon Teaster!

Carol Lynn Hesslop

Oct 08, 2007
at 02:24 AM


Ever since I was a child, my family and I traveled to Maggie Valley just for Ghost Town in the Sky. I cannot tell you how much fun it was for me and my sister, grams and gampy, and my parents. So you can imagine my shriek inducing delight when I saw it was being made into a movie. But then, dot dot dot my delight turned to disdain when I saw a movie that can only be described as a bunch of retards high on cough syrup with a handicam. If you could take feces and mold it into a film, it might resemble the crap-splosion that is Ghost Town the movie.

joe blow

Oct 10, 2007
at 08:01 PM


I too enjoyed Maggie Valley as a child and am glad that the Ghost Town theme park will be immortalized forever on celluloid.  As I never had the chance to visit such theme parks as Disney, Six Flags and Dollywood, Maggie Valley was a home away from home (Blowing Rock, NC) every summer, at least after my father settled his lawsuit with a candy corn company during the worst Halloween of history. The sweet smell of fudge and salt water taffy filled the air overpowering the rank aroma of inebriated native american stunt men falling off of sheds and down wells every thirty minutes as that sweet old train made it round the bend. My uncle actually was the man drug by the horse at the two and four o clock shows. Unfortunately, while drunk on potent Haywood County moonshine and fell off of the chair lift and died instantly, three days later. Now in response to the cinematic degenerate known as Joe Blow, this movie is so epic and wonderful I have to create a new word to describe it. That word is awesome-tatious!!! The performance of Bill McKinney is so awesome-tatious it makes Sir Lawrence Olivier, Yul Brenner and Douglas Fairbanks look like a heap of talentless, child molesting half wits! Renee O’Connor’s acting was mediocre considering her only other acting credit was a Mesopotamian-lesbian on a crappy syndicated adventure show.  In summary, this film is so awesome-tatious I may start a religion based on it. Peace out, don’t let the white man keep you down! Jane Schweisselberg. Knibb High Football Rules!

Jane Schweisselberg

Oct 11, 2007
at 01:24 PM


I am very excited to see the screening of Ghost Town this November. Thanks to the Asheville Film Festival.

Sheila Nesbitt

Oct 11, 2007
at 05:39 PM


I am excitied to see this film take off.  It was an awesome dipiction of an Eastern/Western story. I know of Harmon Teaster and his family, and Ghost Town.  I didn’t have the priveldge of going there when it was in full swing, but knowing the history behind makes me feel like I have been there.  The movie is great!! The actors did an awesome job.  To think Bill McKinney was on set, how cool is that.  Anyway, Good luck to “Ghost Town the Movie” Hope for many great rewards!!!Hats off to all the actors, directors, producers, and film crew. GREAT JOB!

RJK

Oct 12, 2007
at 08:47 AM


I was privileged to be on the set while “Ghost Town” was filmed and published Bob Terrell’s novelization of the script. So I know a lot about the story and how the movie was put together, which was very professional. It’s a GOOD movie, made passionately and with great actors, both longtime ‘name’ pros and some good ole Haywood County locals. I highly recommend it—the mountain allegory couched in the genre terms of a Western REALLY works big time.

Ralph Roberts

Oct 12, 2007
at 10:29 AM


I was privileged to be on the set while Ghost Town was filmed and published Bob Terrell’s novelization of the script. So I know a lot about the story and how the movie was put together, which was very professional. It’s a GOOD movie, made passionately and with great actors, both longtime ‘name’ pros and some good ole Haywood County locals. I highly recommend it—the mountain allegory couched in the genre terms of a Western REALLY works big time.

Ralph Roberts

Oct 12, 2007
at 10:30 AM


I saw this movie and I thought is was “ok”, could have been better but I will come to see it again. I loved Rance Howard as the Sheriff and I love Sammy Kershaw and thought it was really cool they put him in this film, if only for a minute (he looked great as always).

I also thought Renee O’Connor, Bill McKinney and Fred Griffith did really good jobs as the bad guy-girl gang. A hot chic with a gun, who is bad ass (Little Jack), a sharp dressed, good looking but mean, “whiskey” drinking, poker playing, fast draw (Walters) and the fierce, hard nosed boss and father (Victor) are all very believable in the roles.

Can the “Doctor” look any more like his real father, Walter Matthau?

I’m glad to see films being made in NC and telling a story about
our hertiage with some great shots of how beautiful our mountains really are.

Like I said this movie could have been a lot better but I would recommend seeing for what it is.

Tammy Fisher

Oct 20, 2007
at 12:04 AM


WOW! Joe Blow must have been the retard on cough syrup...The movie was good. It didn’t have the action of 3:10 to Yuma that I just saw but it had drama that was just as good. I loved the relationship between Victor and his son Will. The love story with Will and Violet made me cry about what could have been. I also read about handicam and while I think he is talking about a home video recorder that is where I question his motives. The camera work was so beautiful and I think represents are area well. I love that I saw Cold Mountain in there which I can see from my house. I will be there and hope to meet some of the stars. I’m also sorry for Jane’s loss.

I’m going to Ghost Town!

Lorie Masters

Oct 25, 2007
at 02:19 PM


Haha! Joe Blow sounds like a pouty actor wanna be who didn’t get a job. All one has to do is watch the trailer to see he is full of bull@#%#! Keep trying buddy but get a better attitude. So says Kenny of Canton.

Kenny Jacobs

Oct 25, 2007
at 02:24 PM


this is the best movie ever made

dorkman

Nov 01, 2007
at 10:02 PM


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