Dead and Gone

David Lynch meets Evil Dead 2 with some Deliverance thrown in? Trying to make sense of this film is like trying to find something worthwhile in the last eight years - it isn't going to happen.

If you are looking for typical horror with breasts and gore, it has that, although the gore is more Japanese style with the pumping blood after heads roll. You will, of course, enjoy the display by Gillian Shure (Disturbia) as the Constable.

But what the film really contains is a story of madness. Did Jack (Quentin Jones) bring the madness with him when he took his comatose wife (Kathrine Bates) to a haunted cabin, or did the ghosts of the cabin infect him to the point where he killed and killed again? It may take a couple of watchings to be sure and, even then, I doubt you will be. Good performances by Quentin Jones and Robert Herrick.

Fans will be surprised by the cameos: Kyle Gass (Tenacious D), Marilyn Ghigliotti (Clerks), Zack Ward (Freddy vs. Jason) and Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp).

As previous reviews have stated, I get what they mean completely. This film definitely had the qualities of a mystifying Lynchion that seeps in through the cracks that is Evil Dead 2's cabin hysteria and horror!

I quite enjoyed the advanced coloration and distortion of madness and reality behind the camera angles. If this was not enough to grip your collar in, there were plenty of hilarious but grotesquely distasteful characters that localize the bumpkin bliss! A pair of bumbling, troublesome brothers; a careless cop vixen; the perverted televangelist and more!

It was murder on moonshine!

This sucked, big time.

Sock puppeteering is not acceptable in art. In other words, don't toot your own horn pretending to not be associated with, and in this case, the hack-write of this piece of trash.

This film was forced, the acting dry.

Done by people who just want to build up a resume.

Why build a resume of junk? Just to have a sheet of paper to point to? Or a page on IMDb? I love B films and never take them seriously, but trying to tell people to not take it too seriously after all the bad reviews is as transparent as the plot and story.

Stick to for-the-love internet zines. That way all your buddies can pat you on the back and make you feel like you have talent.

Watched it on DVD without knowing anything about it, there was no plot synopsis, no rating, nor any comments on IMDb as I inserted this disc on its release date.

Early on it is clear that it is very low budget, I later learned that it was approx. $500,000. The video is of sharp quality but without Hollywoodesque professional lighting. That part might actually please some viewers.

An interesting shamble of actors show up for this one, several B celebrities from various professions who may or may not be known to you. I particularly liked the female law enforcer, mainly because of her looks; but also because of something else in her character. The acting in this film, while unimpressive, is not the problem. The main story is thin and its background story alike, but this isn't the problem either. Many aspects of this movie are found lacking, such as the dialogue, but not lacking enough to make me dislike the film. No, the problems I perceived were about pacing, logic and the lack of ever coming close to being scary. Because that is how I like my horror movies - scary. This one isn't.

I cannot recommend it to anyone in particular, but horror fans like myself will watch this regardless of warnings. So I wish you pleasant viewing. :)

(2008) Dead And Gone HORROR

Anybody who crave to see different versions of Kubrick's "The Shining" should be able to like this film to which is a much lower budgeted version. Story shows a previous history that occurred in an isolated cabin in the neck of the woods when a husband shoots and kills his whole family which includes wife and child before shooting himself. Then the film jumps to the present time showing a young Englishman moving in with his wife on a breathing ventilator and in a coma which is later revealed was a result of a botched plastic surgery operation and they both ended up staying in this cabin was because of a poker game that this Brit won and decided to take advantage of it since he hardly has any money left! But before some of the revelations, he's also slowly driven mad by creating other people that don't exist or different character traits on actual people, it's suspected that this was a result of living alone with no one to talk to and that the cabin itself has a lot to blame as well because of a previous incident creating delusional thoughts and the film dwells on this a lot with more unsurprising revelations toward the end. The last five minutes of the film absolutely makes no sense despite being well made.