This film is a mess and nearly incoherent; however, it also has to be in the top three films with misleading titles that make you think you are about to watch a zombie film, but you get no zombies! I think it takes the number two spot from Revenge of the Dead as Revenge of the Dead did sort of feature two zombies! However, it was unable to take the top spot from Zombie Island Massacre which features no true zombies of the flesh eating kind. This one did have a supernatural element that Massacre didn't, preventing it from taking the number one spot.
The story, kid goes to visit grandpa and his age is unclear as he could be anywhere from 12 to 21. I would say he at least has to be 16 cause he is driving, but seriously, he gets excited by a toy rocket that sucks. Well, shooting off his toy rocket leads him to find a spoon which is completely unexplained except for poor flashbacks during the film. Well we see the kid sleep and then he occasionally sleepwalks and sets things on fire. First a corpse, then a drunk guy on a bus, then a guy who was peaking in at his granddaughter and finally his own grandfather cause apparently they robbed people. They literally do not establish the one killed on the bus or the creepy incestuous one...they establish the one who is just a corpse more so than these two! The film is just trying to be arty or something and it just comes across as mind numbingly boring!
The film is for the most part just the grandson puttering around and then burning stuff, but then there are scenes that do not seem like they even fit into the film. The whole flirting girl at the hardware store seems totally pointless and adds nothing. I was thinking she would perhaps report the dude, but nope, she is totally not relevant to the plot in any way. Then there is the scene where the grandpa looks in on his granddaughter taking a shower. Not needed, I am all for some nudity to spice things up, but not like that! The girl was not even that attractive and her body was mediocre at best and then I keep having to see sweaty grandpa's face and ick!
So this film is not that good and the only reason I give it two stars is that it did keep me wondering what the heck was going to happen. I kept hoping the dead would rise or something, but it is pretty easy to see it is ghosts coming back for revenge and ruining a young man's life in the process type thing, sort of like Fever Lake only sadly, it is the much better movie! This one is number two though on misleading titles that sound like they should feature zombies! It is also number two of the horror movies featuring those rockets that aren't quite fireworks. Of course, it did not have a shot in hell at number one because The Gate is clearly number one there! Not only does it feature them, they are used to dispatch the evil and it's a pretty good horror film. This film, it kind of vanishes and it is clearly not a good movie.
The story, kid goes to visit grandpa and his age is unclear as he could be anywhere from 12 to 21. I would say he at least has to be 16 cause he is driving, but seriously, he gets excited by a toy rocket that sucks. Well, shooting off his toy rocket leads him to find a spoon which is completely unexplained except for poor flashbacks during the film. Well we see the kid sleep and then he occasionally sleepwalks and sets things on fire. First a corpse, then a drunk guy on a bus, then a guy who was peaking in at his granddaughter and finally his own grandfather cause apparently they robbed people. They literally do not establish the one killed on the bus or the creepy incestuous one...they establish the one who is just a corpse more so than these two! The film is just trying to be arty or something and it just comes across as mind numbingly boring!
The film is for the most part just the grandson puttering around and then burning stuff, but then there are scenes that do not seem like they even fit into the film. The whole flirting girl at the hardware store seems totally pointless and adds nothing. I was thinking she would perhaps report the dude, but nope, she is totally not relevant to the plot in any way. Then there is the scene where the grandpa looks in on his granddaughter taking a shower. Not needed, I am all for some nudity to spice things up, but not like that! The girl was not even that attractive and her body was mediocre at best and then I keep having to see sweaty grandpa's face and ick!
So this film is not that good and the only reason I give it two stars is that it did keep me wondering what the heck was going to happen. I kept hoping the dead would rise or something, but it is pretty easy to see it is ghosts coming back for revenge and ruining a young man's life in the process type thing, sort of like Fever Lake only sadly, it is the much better movie! This one is number two though on misleading titles that sound like they should feature zombies! It is also number two of the horror movies featuring those rockets that aren't quite fireworks. Of course, it did not have a shot in hell at number one because The Gate is clearly number one there! Not only does it feature them, they are used to dispatch the evil and it's a pretty good horror film. This film, it kind of vanishes and it is clearly not a good movie.