You’d be forgiven for not expecting much of a Christopher Smith film as the opener to FrightFest’s ‘09 schedule, what with him being the chap who made the lacklustre Creep and the amusing but silly Severance.
Author Archives: Swineshead
DVD: Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore)
5 CommentsJuly 9, 2009 – 7:21 am
Sometimes you can be forgiven for suspecting the movie you’re about to sit through is going to be woeful claptrap. Cemetery Man seems, from the cover, to satisfy every criteria for this kind of low expectation. It stars Rupert Everett, for Christ’s sake. But then, through sheer insanity and stupidity, it three-sixties into one of the most wonderfully over-the-top showcases for madness you’re ever going to see. When a film goes so far out of its way to make you look at the screen aghast, it has to have something going for it. And it’s this kind of care-free idiocy that marks Cemetery Man as a cut above other overlooked zombie flicks. It simply doesn’t seem to care what you think of it. It’s a bloody-minded lunatic of a film.
The Unborn
3 CommentsJune 14, 2009 – 6:05 pm
The Unborn arrives still-born, confused, overwhelmed by its influences and riddled with incidental music that seems designed to inflict the viewer with its own brand of barbarous audio-vandalism.
Classic horror, this is not.
