Sentences with phrase «ghost towns as»

Each encounter with the infamous outlaws is preceded with navigation through varied old west staple landscapes like farms, towns, mills, mines, caves, mountains, marshes, trains, bridges and ghost towns as well as a shooting gallery of enemies ranging from outlaw gangs to native American warriors.

Tourist hotspots on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali have turned to virtual ghost towns as residents and visitors clear out en masse in response to the looming threat of Mount Agung erupting.

Flight cancellations turn airline hubs into ghost towns as winter storm Jonas approaches, reports CNBC's Hampton Pearson.

By now, though, Fethard is taking on the look of a ghost town as the trek to Cheltenham gets under way.

Giant Spoon significantly rebuilt Texas» existing J. Lorraine Ghost Town as a two - acre, real - life version of Sweetwater, a small Westworld town packed with plot hooks for visitors.

Not exact matches

Now a ghost town, Table Rock, Wyoming was founded by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town to house workers during the region's housing shortage in the late 1970s.

Foreigners are being hired to pose as celebrities by Chinese real - estate developers to help agents sell property in «ghost towns» by making them appear more animated and worldly, according to a new mini-documentary released by The New York Times.

As silver prices skyrocket, investment returns and a Texas ghost town are suddenly resurrected.

Leaving work that Wednesday evening so many moons ago as a naïve 20 - something, I thought the store would be a ghost town except for the few like myself who didn't have the day off and needed to pick up a few items.

The Great Chili Confrontation, as it was to become known, was scheduled to happen in the Texas ghost town of Terlingua.

As the restaurant grew in popularity so did the long wait times, which led to the creation of Knott's Berry Farm's first attraction - Ghost Town.

Battinus described the development as the «Ghost Town Center» as he and Stein shared ideas about new retail development that could be recruited to Buffalo Grove.

The group said that all the communities in Gbaramatu are already ghost towns because of the heavy presence of the military personnel who were already acting in commando style, stressing that the rights and privileges of the people must be respected as anything that will bring a repeat of the events of 2009 when the military invaded Gbaramatu will not augur well for the state and the country.

Bodega Ghost - town: Hundreds of Deli Owners Protest Trump's Immigration Policy by David Greene Bodegas and delis around the city shut for eight - hours, as a silent protest to President Donald Trump's «temporary» immigration ban that has so far detained or -LSB-...]

Bodega Ghost - town: Hundreds of Deli Owners Protest Trump's Immigration Policy by David Greene Bodegas and delis around the city shut for eight - hours, as a silent protest to President Donald Trump's «temporary» immigration ban that has so far detained or prevented -LSB-...]

My mother worked for nearly 20 years as a scientist at DuPont, which later became DuPont Merck, which then became DuPont Pharmaceuticals, whose campus then became a ghost town when it was bought by Bristol - Myers Squibb.

This includes cities in the US, such as his hometown of Chicago, which also becomes «a ghost town from the right angle».

Today, villages outside the plant still lie as barren as ghost towns.

«Ghost towns like Bodie,» DeLyser explains, «are a powerful draw because they are perceived as authentic — actual abandoned towns presented more or less as they were left, and therefore as they once were.»

Known as the Sands of Hell, Namibia Skeleton Coast National Park houses some incredible shipwrecks and a Ghost Town formerly known as Kolmanskop, which was founded in the early 1900s by a large German population when diamonds were found in the desert but abandoned 40 years later.

Last Christmas Eve we spent it at Knott's Berry Farm, or Knott's Merry Farm as it is called during the holiday season, and decided to make it a tradition, so this Christmas Eve found us once again walking along the beautiful lighted streets of Ghost Town, and enjoying all of the unique holiday offerings.

Rising from the dead as a demon from Hell, Bloody Bill preys on all who enter his ghost town.

He believes that the people in the town are just a bunch of backwards rubes and that there are no such things as ghosts.

Actress Radha Mitchell stars as a mother who stumbles into a ghost town where demons have stolen her child.

Echoes of Argento, Korine, Lynch, Malick in a tedious allegory of Detroit as ghost town

The movie opens with a snatch of the old Specials hit «Ghost Town,» and the title sequence that follows shortly thereafter shows Londoners sleepwalking through their dull, repetitive lives — waiting for buses, moving through checkout lines — as if they'd already been infected.

Perhaps the very definition of a guilty pleasure, Paxton's directorial debut Frailty owes at least a passing fancy to the Garth Ennis - penned comic «Preacher» in its assignation of the Holy Ghost to something so mundane as a small - town axe murderer.

As the sun sets on this radioactive ghost town, inhuman cries cut through the night air.

After a ghost - town - foraging prologue that introduces the Abbott clan as a tight unit, but then deals them a horrific tragedy, «A Quiet Place» settles in nearly a year later at their forest - enclosed homestead, where a system of lights, soft household items (they eat on leaves instead of plates), sanded pathways and padded spaces ensure a base level of safety for Lee (Krasinski), Evelyn (Blunt, sublimely good), Regan, and Marcus (Noah Jupe, «Wonder»).

The color footage used in the film is primarily of Auschwitz in 1955, coming off as a ghost town of ghastliness; the older, black - and - white scenes are the ones inspiring anger and revulsion, showing in rapid succession the rise of the Third Reich, the building of the camps, and the atrocities committed therein.

Director: Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) Why It's Great: Deep into Arizona along the Mexican border, the mining town of Bisbee exists as a ghost of its former self.

The film gets darker as it goes on, up to a point where Jimmy is impersonating cowboys for Chinese events and gets lost in the ghost towns of China's excruciating economy and post-millennial life.

All you hear is your footsteps as you walk around the town and hearing all of the ghosts wailing in the back.

Ghost Town is, ultimately, a purely entertaining diversion that comes off as a refreshing change of pace from the gloomy, deliberately - paced fare that tends to dominate film festivals.

The ghosts of James Whale, Maya Deren and Peter Weir smoke a blunt as Griffen becomes a sort of spirit - hero in a town worm - squirming with self - laceration, incest, S&M, and the killer bogeyman of failing machismo.

However overall, Ghost Town is a gentle romantic «date movie» that is saved from becoming a total «chick flick» by Gervias» delightful and at times gleeful turn as the cranky yet in the end likable Dr. Pincus and by comedic dialog so well written by David Koepp and John Kamps and delivered under the deft direction of David Koepp that you just can't stop laughing.

You wouldn't expect little Ghost Town to have come from someone who's had a hand in the screenplays for such high - profile blockbusters as Jurassic Park, Spider - Man, War of the Worlds, and the latest Indiana Jones movie.

«Don't Breathe» paints this ghost town with a bigger budget, and cinematographer Pedro Luque observes its wreckage with graceful camerawork, as in a long, uninterrupted shot that leads us on an elegant tour of the blind man's neglected Victorian home.

Unable to live with the guilt of trusting the embezzler with his friends» life savings, Josh concocts a plan to reclaim the missing cash, with the assistance of small time criminal Slide (Eddie Murphy, Imagine That) and impoverished tower resident Mr Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick, Deck the Halls) necessary as sympathetic Special Agent Denham (Tea Leoni, Ghost Town) watches on.

Shelley always refers to a books page on Amazon with no reviews as being a ghost town — no one is there.

Park City was settled in 1870 as a mining community but nearly became a ghost town when the mines of the area penetrated the water table and flooded.

This town has nearly as many ghost stories as there are coves around Mount Desert Island.

Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, [2] the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962.

When we first set out to book this holiday we tried to do it all ourselves, but now we realise how much we would have missed: the tours, the first class guides, the scenery and the extra places we never even considered ourselves such as The Old Historic Route 66, The Massive Hoover Dam, The night's stay on the RMS Queen Mary (complete with our very own ghost) and the beautiful towns of Carmel and Monterey.

In his book about the journey, he describes the «sleepy little coast village of Hueneme» as a «ghost of a once flourishing town» due to the establishment of a beet sugar factory.

This ghost town was built by Mughal Emperor Akbar as his new capital but was abandoned 10 years after its construction due to the threats of enemy attacks.

As we climbed, we reached the abandoned houses of Wadi Gul, glued to the mountain side, some still inhabited, but the majority turned into a ghost town.

Our first stop is the ghost town of Farina, which was set up in 1882 as a farming centre and railhead for wool and cattle.

From here we head to the ghost town of Farina, which was set up in 1882 as a farming centre and railhead for wool and cattle.

The town is now a «ghost town» with frontier buildings still standing intact as if stuck in time.