Ghost Keeper, Snow Bunnies in Peril

Filmed entirely on location at Lake Louise, in Banff, Alberta. This film and "Doctor Zhivago" share that distinction. Sadly, Omar Sharif and Julie Christie are not in our film today. But wait! We do have babes! Yep, perhaps not household names, but Riva Spier and Sheri McFadden look simply sultry in their slightly tight ski suites. I guess the important question is will they stay sultry? Today we look at a really creepy horror film from 1981, "Ghost Keeper" (aka "Ghostkeeper"), directed by Jim Makichuk.

A trio of snow-mobilers are exploring the woods near Lake Louise one New Year's day. Jenny (Spier) in a shiny gray ski suit, her boyfriend Marty (Murray Ord), and the flirtatious blonde Chrissy (McFadden) in red. A storm comes in fast and the trio find an abandoned resort, Deer Lodge.  They go in to get out of the elements and find it heated. Jenny is sad because her beau pays more attention to Chrissy, the flirt. Jenny is also sad because madness runs in her family...I guess we all can claim that. Uh oh...a creepy old lady (Georgie Collins) emerges. She does not like Marty or Chrissy, but the feelings are mutual. She admires Jenny. Uh oh, she lives there with her sons.  Her sons? One is locked in the icehouse because he is an uncontrollable cannibalistic mutant.  The other son is a homicidal killer.

Okay, Jenny and Marty bicker.  Marty wants to explore other women, specifically Chrissy.  Chrissy takes a hot bath, with candles.  The old lady lets her kids out and now they converge on the trio of unwanted guests. Guess who gets it first. You ever notice what happens to nude babes in slasher films when they take baths? Now Danny (Bill Grove) grabs a chainsaw and chases Jenny through the halls. Marty goes crazy himself. The lunatic locked in the ice cellar...stays locked in the ice cellar. Huh? Then some neat twists.

Is there a catfight brewing between snow bunny Chrissy and snow bunny Jenny? Is the lunatic cannibal guy in the ice cellar going to figure in this plot, at all? Will Jenny survive the inattentive boyfriend who is going crazy, the flirtatious Chrissy, the crazy old woman, the psycho son, and the cannibal son? This is a good one and fans of early 1980s slasher films will want to give it a view. See "Ghost Keeper" and enjoy some babes in snowsuits in great peril.