I’ve said many times here that I love horror films. I love
good ones, bad ones, in-between ones, high budget, low budget, no budget, gory
films, suspense filled films…basically I love all horror films. The problem is
that while there are many great films in this genre there are an even greater
number of bad ones out there. Some of those are downright terrible while other
show promise of budding film makers who may do something great down the line.
Such is the case with this film.
The movie opens up years ago with a small boy and his female
best friend playing together. Later on he walks off into the nearby woods and
crawls down a glowing hole in the ground only to disappear from the world. Fast
forward to the present and a bearded young man emerges from that very same
glowing hole.
For all these years Roscoe (the boy’s name) has been in a
netherworld learning magical ways from an elder demon. When he later realizes
that he’s been there for years he is angered and leaves, heading back to his
home. This angers the demon who sends out other demons with the ability to
raise an army of zombies to stalk the hillside near Roscoe’s home. With the
intent of bringing him back to the demon’s world, Roscoe does his best to avoid
the demons, find a solution and reunite with the little girl he left behind so
long ago now grown up.
There’s the story in a nutshell and also the biggest problem
with this movie. That one short paragraph sums up the entire film and trust me,
I was trying to make it longer than it really needed to be. While the film
offers some really good special effects as well as some good looking mask style
make up, on the whole it felt more like a movie made to show what the director
and crew could do rather than a movie with a significant plot.
I get it, the film is demons and zombies and bloody carnage
left and right. There doesn’t need to be all that much story. But the lack of
it here makes it quite noticeable and in the end makes for a movie that you continue
to find yourself checking your watch over. For me that’s the most unforgiveable
thing to do in any movie. If I’m checking the time with my remote of by looking
at my watch, then the movie is not entertaining me or making me feel it is
worth my time.
I did indeed watch this film from start to finish. Checking
the time frequently. While it felt like it offered me nothing new and nothing
noteworthy in a retro horror film kind of way, it did show that there was
promise for the film’s director. Who knows, with a decent script and budget he
might be capable of something great in this genre. But this film isn’t it.
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