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Ghosts... of the Civil Dead is a 1988 movie directed by John Hillcoat and written by Hillcoat, musicians Nick Cave and Hugo Race, with Gene Conkie and producer Evan English.

Plot summary

Ghosts... is set in Central Industrial Prison, a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. An outbreak of violence within the prison has resulted in a total lockdown. A committee is appointed by the prison's governors to investigate the cause of the outbreak, but their findings are in stark contrast to the facts behind the riot. As the viewers see, both the prisoners and the guards are slowly and deliberately brutalised, manipulated and provoked into the forthcoming eruption of violence, to justify the construction of a new and more "secure" facility.

Trivia

John Hillcoat and Nick Cave would later collaborate on the 2005 film The Proposition
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The film's score was written by Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld and Mick Harvey, all members of Cave's band, The Bad Seeds. Former band member Hugo Race also wrote part of the script, and Cave and Harvey have acting roles in the film.

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