Vengeance of the Dead

There can be no spoilers here because there aren't any! The longer I watched the film, the more confused I got. When the end credits came, I actually sat up and said, "What? That's it? Huh??" No clue.

The only saving grace is watching this with Rifftrax.

If I could give this film less than one star, I would.

It's quite tragic when a fresh idea gets thrown out in the form of a horrific film, but this movie delivers just that. While the underlying plot is actually quite intriguing and original, the movie is simply so poorly made that one cannot forgive the creators. The opening dialogoue between the two main characters is a perfect example of what you're getting into when you view this film. You can't even understand what the two men are saying. The picture quality is worse than a fifty year old second-hand camera. The acting is horrible, the scripting is horrible, the camera work is horrible.. The movie is horrible. Don't waste your time, money, or eyesight.

A tidy horror/thriller from Wisconsin filmmakers Adams and Picardi with lots of twists and turns and many offbeat touches. A young guy goes to visit his grandpa down on the farm, and soon is spending those soft summer nights sleepwalking and torching elderly neighbors, apparently coaxed/goaded along by some restless ghosts. I watched the DVD, which was chock-full of cool extras about the filmmakers and their projects. VENGEANCE OF THE DEAD is what solid b-movie filmmaking looks like.

That flashy box-cover fooled me into thinking I was getting into a silly, fun Charles Band ride. It was all the more difficult after that to get into the mood for this very spare ghost chiller, but I was hooked in 5 minutes.

The prologue sees a young man (possibly gay ?) driving through the country to greet his grandfather after some time in the city. The farm is modest, the fields never-ending and grandpa is full of love for his grandson. Then visions of the past haunt the son's dreams, until he finds himself sleepwalking into some of his granddad's old friends' homes...to burn them.

The ghost story is simple and reminiscent of "The Nesting", and probably a few other ghost movies. The lead looks convincingly lost in the situation he's put in (and obviously lost in a few other areas of his life). The settings adequately serve the haunting storyline, as this town is clearly a town where nothing happens and secrets stay buried.

Although there was no surprise to be found, the creepy pace of the movie and a modest but distinctive direction kept me interested all the way through.

At the start of this movie you see a car driving down a deserted road. It looked like it was shot on a Camcorder. Nothing much happens until 40 minutes. Then there a couple of murders. This is the vengeance of the dead. At 50 minutes a guy checks out his grand daughter in the shower (she is 20 something). He gets it but why? He has not murdered anyone so why are the dead taking their vengeance out on him?

This movie is dull. It is badly shot. The story is muddled and confusing. On a plus side the music is sombre throughout and is good for a horror movie. Sorry about the formatting issues IMDb no longer allows shot reviews so I have to faff around with the formatting.

The UK DVD has only one extra. That being a trailer for the movie. It would have been really good if the directors commentary for the movie. Then I could have found out more about the movie and it might have made sense. So in the Uk the prism DVD is bare bones.