All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos...2005...88 minutes...(TVMA)...starring Marisa Ramirez, Travis Wester, Nicole Hiltz, Laz Alonso, David Keith, Danny Trejo, and an appearance by Jeffrey Combs...written by Mark A. Altman...directed by Jeremy Kasten
Some towns just have all the trouble. Some towns also seem to attract people passing through like flies. In the horror paradigm , these two qualities are linked...the more trouble, the more people just have to pass through at the wromg time. Take Alicia and Joss, for example, who are on a road trip to meet Alicia's parents. The couple manage to come through at a same time a procession is carrying a casket...which they nearly hit, and the contents of which come spilling out. Too bad the contents turn out to be a young girl with her tongue cut out. It only gets worse for the couple from this point, with tracherous sheriffs, failed sacrifices, strange innkeepers, and the dead rising from their graves.
I selected this movie off my OnDemand from Starz, so I missed the fact that this was a movie made for SyFy. My mistake. I'm not going to belabor this particular review, because I've already wasted enough time on this selection by watching it. Suffice to say that with the last three names involved (Hey, David Keith is a local guy done good, so I root for him.) the movie still hasn't been saved. It's not a traditional zombie movie, at all, and honestly never finds its way. The gore is light, and honestly the movie comes off as so boring, you fall asleep and thusly miss some of the large plot holes.
The summary: don't go here. Just don't.
I give it 1.5 weird skeleton carvings out of 5.
I wish OnDemand were a bit more clear about the source of movies. I get grumpy when I sit down to watch a movie only to find that it's "edited for television" (read cut to hell and riddled with commercials).
ReplyDeleteThat being said, not all SyFy movies suck -this- badly. The over-the-top ones sometimes make it into the "so bad it's actually good" category. Sorry this was not one of them.