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.
For instance, 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. There's also a
moment where they try to save the day by
killing this possessed family member of
theirs which offers nothing but awful
comedy.
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
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.
Cathrine Grace 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.
Richard Gabai 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.
Former 50's hearthrob the late Troy
Donahue 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
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 directing by
Richard Gabai and Robert Strauss
was total crap and very amateurish.
There's an interesting beginning
performed by bit part actors Jamie
James, Karen Russell and Richard
Rifkin when they bring Tom
McCammon to a isolated area but yet
there's a moment with Russell
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 corny blocking and camera shots
on McCammon getting up and
trying to walk back home with a pipe
stabbed through him which looked terribly
directed.
There's scene's with Cathrine Grace,
Allison Baron and Shannon Absher
grieving which lookedway too
directed out and not at all together.
There's camera shots on all three of them
dragging McCammon's body in the
backyard which looked fairly okay.
There's the odd good camera shots with
the three of them at the dinner table
with McCammon acting obnoxious
and gross and Gabai getting
angry at him which is not as bad as most
of the direction in this movie but still
a little trashy.
There is a good scene between Richard
Gabai acting flirtatious towards Baron
with their conversations towards one
another which is probably the best
direction of all and the only scene worth
watching.
There's also a cheesy camera shot on McCammon
towards Absher in a trailer
getting menacing and deadly towards her
by grabbing her and bringing a knife
towards her neck which looked roughly
directed and unconvincing too.
There'sm a cheesy camera shot looking
angle side towards Linnea Quigley
getting dressed preparing for a strip
show as well as an amateurish direction
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 dialogue with Quigley
talking to McCammon and not
believing it's him until he tells her
about what has happened which looked very
goofylike.
There's a good camera shot on McCammon
in front having deep thoughts with Quigley
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 McCameron's
expressions towards Grace as well as
shots on him putting her hand in a
garbage dispenser but it falls flat when
she screams in terror.
There's a good shot with Quigley
at the table joining hands with Grace,
Gabai and Barron
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 directed.
There's a shot glancing behind McCameron's
shoulder when he looks into a broken
mirror when he makes out that he is
possessed trying to portray tow
character's which looked terribly done
and unconvincing.
Yes folks sad to say the directing on
this lacked big time and not alot of
effort was put into it.
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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