As you can guess by my rating I really did not enjoy this movie. I would not recommend this movie and perhaps others wouldn't give it such a low rating, but I thought the setup of this movie was bad and not fully realized. Deep inside of this movie there is actually a good movie, even an original good horror movie. But, writer/director Norman Thaddeus Vane kept leading me the viewer down the wrong paths towards a bad horror flick.
Ferdy Mayne (who interestingly looks a lot like Christopher Lee in this movie) plays Conrad Radzoff an old time actor. After we witness him kill, almost die, kill again and now he finally is dead (very poor set up in my eyes) a group of drama students (including Scott Thomson and an very early performance from horror vet Jeffrey Combs) steal his corpse and take him to an old creepy mansion where they can party for the night. Nita Talbot brings him back to life and he exacts his revenge on the youngsters. Yawn! Couldn't see that coming.
Who knows maybe I was too tired watching this sludge, but I thought it was confusing, not very well explained and the kills (other than the one involving the supposed hero in the coffin to be burned) are bad, cut away from and pretty near bloodless. There likely is an audience out there for this movie, I know it ain't me.
Ferdy Mayne (who interestingly looks a lot like Christopher Lee in this movie) plays Conrad Radzoff an old time actor. After we witness him kill, almost die, kill again and now he finally is dead (very poor set up in my eyes) a group of drama students (including Scott Thomson and an very early performance from horror vet Jeffrey Combs) steal his corpse and take him to an old creepy mansion where they can party for the night. Nita Talbot brings him back to life and he exacts his revenge on the youngsters. Yawn! Couldn't see that coming.
Who knows maybe I was too tired watching this sludge, but I thought it was confusing, not very well explained and the kills (other than the one involving the supposed hero in the coffin to be burned) are bad, cut away from and pretty near bloodless. There likely is an audience out there for this movie, I know it ain't me.