The Western film has long been a Hollywood staple genre since the days when real cowboys would congregate at the corner of Sunset and Gower (Known as Gower Gulch) in Los Angeles to get a day’s work as an extra. In the early morning, the film companies would pass by on their way up into the hills for a long day of shooting. Not every company could afford to have a huge cast to tell its story of sod busting, save the girl, and range riding chicanery. The stories were small yet effective moments of humanity or, in the case of today’s Ghost Town, a healthy dose of the supernatural.

“…a spider emerges from her mouth and runs into her hair.”
Ghost Town would be considered an offbeat Western film taking place in a town that was formerly booming. The film opens with disheveled Solomon playing Owen Conway, who also wrote and directed the film, walking alone in sagebrush towards the sun. Solomon drops to his knees, cackling with laughter as the camera moves into a Film Noir style flashback.
Turns out Solomon wakes up in a boarding house or, in this case, a boarding room of a dead town. He is hungover and needs work, so he is advised by the crusty proprietor (Michael Harrelson), who is sitting in a chair outside, to go to the local saloon and joy house. His horse has died, and his gun has gone missing. Finding the Boss of the Saloon Hagan (Robert Sprayberry) and getting hired, all is well till one of the customers is shot dead while they’re talking to him. The events begin to unravel as Solomon starts hearing growling from bushes and seeing strange things. The following day, as he’s talking to one of the saloon girls, Stella (Becky Jo Harris), a spider emerges from her mouth and runs into her hair.