Screaming Dead (2003) (V)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Brett Piper

Writer:

Brett Piper (writer)

Release Date:

30 March 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Plot Keywords:

Fetishism | Bondage | Screaming | Fear | Tied Up

Cast

Rob Monkiewicz	...	Sam Rogan
Rachael Robbins	...	Maura Holloway
Misty Mundae	...	Bridget
Joseph Farrell	...	Roger Neale
Heidi Kristoffer	...	Lauren
Kevin G. Shinnick	...	Rossiter
A.J. Khan	...	Model in Opening Sequence
Sylvianne Chebance	...	Receptionist
Marc Gettis	...	Doc

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence, sexual content and language.

Runtime:

USA:88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Marlboro, New Jersey, USA

Company:

E.I. Independent Cinema

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments" (2004)

Cheesier Than A Cheese Pizza With Extra Cheese

If you like bad, low budget, unintentionally funny films, seek no more. This is the movie for you.

It has nudity, some horror, and really bad acting. The special effects are embarrassing. For example, a nude woman receives a series of "cuts", and it looks like someone just squirted red paint on to her body. There is no cut of any kind. She's just being basted in tobasco sauce.

Yes, it's shlock. Shlocky shlock. Super shlocky shlock.

At best, you'll laugh. There were some scenes where I laughed out loud. Not because the film was funny, but because the film was so very bad.

At worst, you'll become bored and shut off the movie. There were a few times I was tempted to do so, but I waited out my boredom, and was rewarded with more terrible dialogue, needless nudity, ridiculous special effects, and filming mistakes. Hooray!

The film stars Misty Mundae. Having never heard of her before, I laughed when I saw her name in the credits. The moniker has "soft core porn star" written all over it. The bonus material to the DVD assures me she is a famous horror movie actress who has been in many magazine articles -- Fangoria, for example. And she has, they assure me, "star quality".

Well, no. She doesn't. Not really. But she is willing to take off all her clothes. She is sort of cute, I guess, if scrawny and small.

Rob Monkiewicz plays the male hero, Sam Rogan, and he's amazingly bad. He delivers is lines like he's delivering a pizza -- each sentence comes coated in Luke warm cheese, served in a cardboard box. More than once, his hamfisted lines made me giggle. He's supposed to play a muscle bound romantic, but comes across as a bouncer who occasionally "acts".

Now you know what you're in for -- bad, bad, bad, bad film. But so bad it can be entertaining. Get your friends together, get drunk, and maybe you'll enjoy the film. Watch for the scene where a crew member is accidentally filmed by the doorway. Laugh as the mike once again swings into the scene. Boggle at computer special effects that you would be embarrassed to use as a screen saver.

This, my friends, is a great, bad film.