A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Acting
Meeten's unraveling is mesmerizing, unbearable, unforgettable
Direction
Tunley stretches 81 minutes into infinite unease
Sound
The score breathes underneath your skin
Director
Gareth Tunley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tom Meeten and Gareth Tunley developed the character of Chris through years of comedy sketches, making his dramatic breakdown even more disorienting.
The film's title references T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'—the 'ghoul' being the unburied dead, the trauma that possesses the living.
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