Horrorfest -- The Gravedancers
Nov. 18th, 2006 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzI did it again. I went to the movies to see a pretty full showing of The Gravedancers at AMC on the Levee.
Three friends come together for the funeral of a fourth. The three end up at their friend's grave at night to toast him one last time, getting drunk and finding a card on the grave that directs them to dance for the living. As they dance around, they inadvertently dance on other graves, causing the spirits of the desecrated to later come after them once they've gotten home.
Unlike the last two movies I saw, this one has some familiar faces. The leads are Dominic Purcell (from FOX's Prison Break) and Claire Kramer ("Glory" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who play a married couple terrorized by the ghost of a female axe murderer. The movie is actually very creepy, causing me to jump once or twice, and even raised the hair on my arms in one scene. It relies heavily on atmosphere and relatively easy special effects in most of the movie.
Towards the end the producers must have gotten an influx of money to add more special effects because they went from mild to wild. This is the point where the movie kind of "jumped the shark" (if a movie can actually do that). I think it would have been better... and creepier... if they'd left it toned down. Overall, the movie was very good, the best of the three that I've seen so far.
Did I enjoy it? Very much!
Would I watch it again? Definitely.
Buy the DVD? I plan on it.
Three friends come together for the funeral of a fourth. The three end up at their friend's grave at night to toast him one last time, getting drunk and finding a card on the grave that directs them to dance for the living. As they dance around, they inadvertently dance on other graves, causing the spirits of the desecrated to later come after them once they've gotten home.
Unlike the last two movies I saw, this one has some familiar faces. The leads are Dominic Purcell (from FOX's Prison Break) and Claire Kramer ("Glory" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who play a married couple terrorized by the ghost of a female axe murderer. The movie is actually very creepy, causing me to jump once or twice, and even raised the hair on my arms in one scene. It relies heavily on atmosphere and relatively easy special effects in most of the movie.
Towards the end the producers must have gotten an influx of money to add more special effects because they went from mild to wild. This is the point where the movie kind of "jumped the shark" (if a movie can actually do that). I think it would have been better... and creepier... if they'd left it toned down. Overall, the movie was very good, the best of the three that I've seen so far.
Did I enjoy it? Very much!
Would I watch it again? Definitely.
Buy the DVD? I plan on it.
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