I’m looking at uploading our custom html page to a static page in the hosted version of ghost but can’t find the option of how to do a fully custom HTML page vs a story
Sounds like the dynamic routing feature could help you here:
There’s also a tutorial on how to create a custom homepage:
Hope that helps 
Thanks a lot for the quick guides that I & @mtg can go through easily, will definitely try to implement my cotomovies website and test the results immediately.