A man named Roy Flowers
(Todd McCammon) is killed by three jewel
thieves and buried in an isolated area.
Then he is brought back to life by a
sporot of a serial killer named Blade who
possesses his body.
His poor family who lives ina trailer is
inherited by his life insurance but when
he comes hom to a nice house his family
isn't sure whether or not to really kill
him in which they keep it a secret from
their landlord Barry Hefna (Troy
Donahue).
Blade has deadly things up his sleeve as
he plans to kill this family one by one
and letting everyone know that he is back
for revenge as well as inviting his
stripper girlfriend over named Wanda
Dance (Linnea Quigley) over for some fun
and kink. Wanda also tries to help save
this family due to his wrath on her and
the rest.
I was downloading
this movie which took me 4 days to fully
download and trust me this film is not
worth glancing for the second time. I
thought Murder Weapon was a bad horror flick but this one
really took the toll of that. It's barely
even a horror flick as most of it showed
black comedy and was hard to tell if it
just had horror elements in it. It was total crap I can tell you that.
There's an interesting beginning
with some people bringing someone to a isolated area but yet
there's a moment with one of them whacking him with a shovel which doesn't
look convincing at all. There's good
camera shots looking up at the three of
them looking down at him though.
There's scene's with some people grieving which looked way too
performed out and not at all together.
Some of the real corny moments for instance, is when the lead character returns
from the grave with a steel pipe impaled
in his body and has a hard time walking
through a doorway to get someone to help
him cut the steel pipe. Another corny
moment was with the family grieving and
then he returns to see them and they get
money invested from his death so they
don't know whether or not to kill him for
good with the slapstick one liners
involved. There's also people knocking at
the family door which are the people
about to prepare their pool in the
backyard and the mother always tells them
to come back another time. Also we spot a
moment where they try to save the day by
killing this possessed family member of
theirs which offers nothing but awful
comedy.
There's the odd good camera shots with three of the character's at the dinner table
with Roy Flowers acting obnoxious
and gross and Danny getting
angry at him which is not as bad as most
of the work in this movie but still
a little trashy.
There's a cheesy camera shots looking
angle side towards Wanda Dance getting dressed preparing for a strip
show as well as an amateurish moment
on her looking into some sort of a
crystal ball calling for her lover and
where he is which is laughable but not in
a good way.
There's a trashy discussion with Wanda talking to Roy and not
believing it's him until he tells her
about what has happened which looked very
goofy like.
There's a good camera shot on Roy in front having deep thoughts with Wanda behind him at a bed acting kinky in a
topless cowboy suit but yet their actions
on this was lacking big time.
There's a good shot on Roy's expressions towards Mom Flowers as well as
shots on him putting her hand in a
garbage dispenser but it falls flat after this.
A good shot with Wanda at the table joining hands with some of the others but yet when the ceremony happens it
looks extremely sloppy and too hokey with
everyone's actions that amateurish isn't
the word for how this scene was performed.
There's a shot glancing behind Roy's shoulder when he looks into a broken
mirror when he makes out that he is
possessed trying to portray two
character's which looked terribly done
and unconvincing.
But here's some of the stuff that made
this film just pass as a horror flick.
There's goons killing this lead actor and
later on in the story he is evil towards
his girlfriend and is about to kill her
and then he puts his mother's hand in a
garbage disposer or him bashing someone
with a baseball bat or the real person
trying to control himself from being
possessed. That's about it folks and it's
not at all scary.
Bottom line is the film sucks the big one
and everything about this film is
amateurish which barely was released onto
VHS and a hard one to find and it's not a
big loss folks. Dead Alive did
something almost like this but theirs was
alot better. It was just an excuse to
make a movie and did it with very little
money.
The acting was in
terrible shape as it looks like the cast
didn't care to put any effort into this
terrible film and I can't blame them.
Lead actor Todd McCammon (Roy Flowers) seems to show great insane and angered
expressions with his character as someone
returning from the dead and acting
possessed but he is very melodramatic
whenever he performs like this by getting
into an evil rage. He is corny with his blocking getting up and
trying to walk back home. He's also a bit trashy while acting obnoxious. He was unconvincing with his blocking when he gets a knife and holds it to someone's neck along with being menacing about this. Very unconvincing and roughly done. He performs in a certain situation when he looks into a broken
mirror when he makes out that he is
possessed trying to portray two
character's which looked terribly done
and unconvincing.
Cathrine Grace (Mom Flowers) was quite annoying as
a nagging Mom in the flick and she tried
to pull off some energy into her part but
she really falls flat. She was not a true
character actress even if she tried to do
so with what she had. She also doesn't scream too well on camera for a terrifying moment that occurs.
Richard Gabai (Danny) who
co-directed this film too usually isn't
too bad as an actor but here he seems to
slack off a little but yet he seemed to
try and bring up the energy with his
character whenever he gets anxious or
acting charming in which he did quite
well. He does well acting flirtatious in a scene of the film.
Former 50's hearthrob the late Troy
Donahue (Barry Hefna) seemed to act like a robot
almost with his character and just seemed
to be saying his lines and showing very
little effort with his part in the film
as a landlord. During this time period
the plug was pulled on his hey day and
was accepting roles in direct to video
junk like this.
There's of course a good supporting role
by sexpot/scream queen Linnea Quigley (Wanda Dance) who tried her best to act kinky in the
film as a stripper and yet she comes
across being that way but even she fell
flat on trying to act funny and outgoing
with her role. Her skin did most of the
talking as usual in these terrible films.
Linnea Quigley is
changing into a top breasts revealed.
Later on she is topless wearing a cowboy
uniform trying to act kinky. Her boobs
seem to be the drawing card to this
story.
A steel pipe is
impaled in a person's body
A hand is mangled in a garbage disposer
A finger is cut off
The gore effects were awful and not too
graphic looking
The music was brought
together by a synthesizer with nothing
too spectacular but cheesy violin sounds
and other technical stuff which was
sounded terribly trashy all put together
by Larry Berliner and Michael
Morrell.
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