Miles Creighton (Michael Beck, Xanadu) is frozen at the point of death, but begins to thaw ten years later. His mother decides to see if he can be saved and a miracle surgery brings him back - without a soul! His mother Marion Creighton (Beatrice Straight) doesn't believe that her son could be evil, much less be killing people, yet it's true. He even tries to kill friend of the family Reverend Penny (Paul Sorvino) and his stepsister Stacey (Jill Schoelen) is next on his list.
Directed by Wes Craven - this came out on VHS as Wes Craven's Chiller - and written by J. D. Feigelson (Dark Night of the Scarecrow), Chiller has an amazing moment when the zombie CEO tells the priest ""I'll tell you what's on the other side. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You die and there's simply darkness. No streets of gold. No harps. No halos. No angels and saints. It's all here, so you better live it up, holy man, because this is all there is."
I tend to prefer Craven's small screen movies to so many of his big screen efforts. This one has a pretty bad script, to be honest, that has some interesting ideas of the beyond and never really shows us some important things, like why everyone thinks Miles is so great. Instead, we only know the blue-faced tyrant strip-mining his father's company.
That said, if you're up late, it's certainly a good movie to be half-awake to.
Directed by Wes Craven - this came out on VHS as Wes Craven's Chiller - and written by J. D. Feigelson (Dark Night of the Scarecrow), Chiller has an amazing moment when the zombie CEO tells the priest ""I'll tell you what's on the other side. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You die and there's simply darkness. No streets of gold. No harps. No halos. No angels and saints. It's all here, so you better live it up, holy man, because this is all there is."
I tend to prefer Craven's small screen movies to so many of his big screen efforts. This one has a pretty bad script, to be honest, that has some interesting ideas of the beyond and never really shows us some important things, like why everyone thinks Miles is so great. Instead, we only know the blue-faced tyrant strip-mining his father's company.
That said, if you're up late, it's certainly a good movie to be half-awake to.