With eerie atmosphere to spare, and an emphasis on communal terrors and long-buried secrets, this surprisingly wistful film hews closer to folk horror, suggesting Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man by way of Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz’s Messiah of Evil.
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The PlaylistJason Bailey
The PlaylistJason Bailey
Elegantly constructed, wittily executed, delightfully ruthless, and scary as hell.
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A town where tourists and hapless visitors are murdered, and the dead are revived by a big band-loving mortician, descends into gore and madness. [16 Mar 2007, p.C5]
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Time Out
Time Out
Gruesome almost to a fault, but not quite, it emerges as an efficient shocker.
Most of the plot twists are confusing and haphazardly developed, leaving the movie as little more than an excuse to show off Stan Winston's admittedly effective gore effects.