A greedy filmmaker Eric Hartman (John Ireland) filma in a mansion that had seven murders vreated that were occult related as he wants to make a horror film based on it all. Yet the caretaker Edgar Price (John Carradine) warns them not to mess with things in which Eric directs his cast to read black magic witchcraft which can summon up deadly situations.

Nicely focused beginning to the story in which we spot our leading character Gayle Dorian doing a satanic type of reading as well as showing pentagrams and other stuff like that. Plus some evil moments on what she was doing which was carefully shot.
Then we realise that they were acting in a scene as the obnoxious filmmaker Eric Hartman shouts cut and unsatisfied with what was going on which looked fairly strong.
The moments were attention grabbing on the aggressions and no nonsense attitude on preparing to shooting the scene again as well as planning on what to do next. This all was brought together nicely.

Then the innkeeper Edgar Price shows his cast and crew around the mansion and what had happened there. He behaves gruffly and creepily too. The moments looked mysterious as to what he shows them and so fourth.
While they look around David is holding Gayle's cat in which there's a painting on a scary looking cat with great close up shots on this picture as well as a close up on the cat's eyes while looking at this piece of art. This makes the feline go a bit wild as this was impressive to watch knowing something evil lurks in this mansion. Was definitely an eye grabber for sure.

Many interesting interactions with the cast in their rented rooms of the mansion as some are outgoing such as Christopher towards his girlfriend Anne and others a little sleazy especially with the director Eric towards Gayle with her being reluctant. Then he gets cold with her again. Seemed to work well in the story.
Meanwhile, both Anne and Christopher discovers out their window a foggy looking graveyard as well as spotting someone opening a tombstone that leads to an underground. This looked truly mysterious for a horror flick. It made me wonder as to what lurks underneath.

While they film more stuff in the mansion and spotting some satanic murders it drew me in wondering if it's actually going to happen due to what seems to be lurking in the mansion. Would there be possessions??? Who knows. It was mind boggling.

When it's late at night, Gayle's cat goes wandering off in the mansion to another part of the area while she goes looking for her pet. Things were dark and still with this happening. It for sure looked spooky as well as hearing her cat meowing adding a nice touch. While this all happens when she calls for her pet a brief moment shows what looked like evil eyes flashing. This adds more nice flavour for a flick like this.

When Eric starts to shoot an outdoors scene with Gayle doing her part, it looks mysterious on what she does. Plus she gets thrown off by what she spots as to what happened to her cat. This was a shocking moment and not for cat lovers by any means. Nothing too graphic though and we all that it's just a movie. Not real at all.

Eric confronts Gayle very aggressively by grabbing her when she is packing to life and threatening her that she will never work in the industry again if she quits and other nasty stuff. All of this looked perfectly intense to watch the outcome and emotional moments throughout all of this. Certainly draws off great tension in the story as well as the typical Hollywood attitude types.

Eric confronts Edgar in his basement accusing him on what he did to Gayle's cat and other situations in which this looked powerfully done. Also makes you wonder if the terrors will strike again before you know it by what goes on here.

When Eric starts shooting an effective moment Edgar is near the graveyard as Gayle is performing her character reading out black magic witchcraft which looked extremely well focused. While this moment happens there's a good shot on some dirt near a tombstone moving. Now this really grabbed my attention that the dead will rise.
While the actors do more scene's with one of the cast members doing something deadly, a good moment with a zombie rising out of the grave at the same time and strangling Edgar but this looked a bit amateurishly done.

It almost looked exciting when the zombie is ready to terrorise others but yet it looked uninspired at the same time as well as confusing as to why this is happening which made the story sink. It was slow as to when this being pops in and out. It shows moments with the cast finishing up after the wrap up of the film.
But some interesting brain teasers as to when Gayle spots the zombie and freaks out as well as firing at this living dead. Yet it reveals one of the people she worked with in Eric's film that she killed as he falls from a high staircase to the ground as this looked perfectly terrorising. However, it doesn't explain itself too well.

More confusing moments when Eric is struggling against one of his actors at the graveyard and then this person falls into a dug up pit. This grabbed my attention when I saw his hands rising up and wondering if he will spring into action again.
What confused me is how this came to be but I almost figured was due to them reading out loud the black magic witchcraft that caused all sorts of havoc such as the living dead, possessions and deadly incidents. More of this happens near the end as we wonder who to trust with these survivors. Are they now part of the evil at the mansion????

During the end Eric loses his mind on his film being destroyed which is a real psychological feel to everything as well as leading to his death which almost looks like a suicide. This was confusing to understand too.

Bottom line is that this film has some fun touches but ends up as a drag. It's not a full time zombie flick like we would think. It was a mess of all sorts of horror genres which really doesn't explian itself too well. Or maybe it does and I'm missing something but am certain I paid close attention to it. It's a bit of a bore and somewhat a party flick not meant to be taken seriously. I could see why this one was obscure as it was forgettable.

The acting was dated but not terrible in which John Ireland (Eric Hartman) certainly drew across nicely as an obnoxious filmmaker with his grouchy and sleazy behavior. Also does a nice job when being forceful in a certain scene bringing it to a punch. Plus does well acting devasted in the end of his performance. Yes he brought alot onto the screen and is probably the best in the cast.

Faith Domergue (Gayle Dorian) shows it off well by when she portrays an actress acting vicious and so fourth. Also reacts believably devasted when she spots something as well as doing a good job crying in separate scene's. Reacts well to stuff as well as doing a great job by acting scared or shocked.

Carole Wells (Anne) shows off a nice innocence as well as showing off a nice girl type of personality. Does well by acting concerned or fearful on her surroundings. She drew off well onto the camera with all she did here and a fair choice for the part.

Charles Macaulay (Christopher Milan) who played the boyfriend showed off a nice clean cut boy next door appeal. Does a nice job with his mr. nice guy atttiude as well as showing good energy while acting alerted with what goes on. Plus shows a decent versatality when becoming possessed and vicious as he rolls with the punches big time here.

Jerry Strickler (David) was fairly okay in his role in which he seemed to show off a somewhat cocky attitude in his part. He was mediocre in his performance. Yet when he portrays as an actor when is on set as what seems like a zombie with him rising and slowly getting creepy he seemed to have nailed it on that certain scene.

John Carradine (Edgar Price) had a real effective supporting role and stood out the most. Shows off a great gruff and eccentric attitude but like in most of his work he often played these types of roles. Was great at acting mysterious the way he did stuff.

The music sounded great as there's alot of choral music sounding very strong with the vocal harmony and fitting the scene that it was used for. It certainly packs a suspense big time. I had to admit it sounded better than the story itself. The choral composing was done by Robert Emenegger. The classica score done by Dominic Frontiere and Richard LaSalle sounded fair with some mellow clarinet, violin and flute playing with the touching moments as well as the mysterious one's which fit quite okay. The music was perfectly sharp when the zombie from the grave attacks having a decent screechy sound. Sometimes it grows incredibly intense for the shocking deadly incidents.

Eric Hartman: [Gayle is being difficult and is telling the director how she wants to quit the picture] "I, I, I"... everything for Gayle, the hell with everyone else!
Eric Hartman: [angrily grabs her] Listen, baby, what you're pulling might have worked in the studios ten years ago, but not here, and not now, and sure as hell not on *my* picture!
Gayle Dorian: Eric, you're hurting me!
Eric Hartman: [unhands her, calms down] Okay, go on, leave. But you're walking, all right. And when you get there you're gonna' find just how tough it is for a middle-aged beauty queen to get a job in the acting profession... or even in the profession I first found you in.
Eric Hartman: I'll expect you on the set in ten minutes - in your wardrobe! [walks out; Gayle breaks down, sobbing]