Prisoners of the Ghostland - First pictures: Nicolas Cage travels into the world of spirits

In his home country Japan, scandalous director Sion Sono has it thanks to films such as Tag or Suicide Circle already brought to a certain fame. They all pale against its English-language debut, however Prisoners of the Ghostland, which is supposed to add a lot more in terms of wildness. “And that means something,” says the filmmaker, who has a penchant for splatter and macabre horror scenarios. And where there are crazy, out-of-the-way film concepts, Nicolas Cage is not far away recently. He plays in the action horror film opposite Sofia Boutella (mummy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Atomic Blond), Ed Skrein (Deadpool), Bill Moseley (3 from Hell), Young Dais (The Outsider) and Tak Sakaguchi (Re:Born) a notorious felon sent into the spirit dimension to rescue a kidnapped girl from the clutches of dark forces and to break the curse on her. To do this, however, they have to escape from the murderous Ghostlands, which is considered to be almost impossible. So anyone in their right mind would probably avoid this assignment. However, Cage’s figure drives another motivation:

Even wilder than Sonos’ earlier works? © XYZ Films

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“The story is totally crazy,” bring Cage Prisoners of the Ghostland to the point. “I’m wearing a black leather jumpsuit with grenades all over my body. If I don’t save the governor’s daughter in time and bring her back to the state line of the spirit world, they’ll just blow me up. ”Thanks to roles in the psychedelic revenge thriller Mandy or the HP Lovecraft film adaptation Color Out of Space by Richard Stanley, Nicolas Cage is currently experiencing a small renaissance. Even in the cinema, the former action hero is from hits like Con Air or Face / Off – In the body of the enemy to be found again soon, plays in the meta-comedy The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent from Lionsgate Films itself.