User Reviews

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.

VENGEANCE OF THE DEAD is a local, shot-on-video horror story made by some amateur filmmakers in Wisconsin. Due to the extremely low budget it's not really very good at all, but fans of independent cinema might still get a kick out of it. This turgid haunted house story sees a young man heading off to his grandfather's rural farmstead, where he's haunted by dreams about falling in love with a ghost girl. Meanwhile, an unknown killer is butchering those in the vicinity. This is clearly inspired by THE AMITYVILLE HORROR et al but it's nowhere near as effective and that budget is just too low to do the subject matter justice.

Is this another US regional horror film? If so, then why do I end up with these things? I live thousands of miles away from the US.

This is another z-grade movie with non-actors and a non-budget. I'll give it some credit for trying something different, but the first full half of the film just bored me to tears. However, the film decides to grow some knackers halfway and starts throwing in some nudity and gore to keep the viewer awake.

Some guy goes to live with his grampa and finds a spoon. All spoons are evil and this one is no different, so the guy starts dreaming of a ghost kid and starts sleepwalking around the place, wasting old men (and a corpse, which seemed kind of a waste of time). Gradually (and predictably) we find out why all this is happening, although the spoon angle is kind of dropped from the plot.

Dodgy acting (the lead guy is as camp as anything) tries to drive this film into the ground, but you do see some decent pyrotechnics and gore later in the film, so you might want to give it a chance. You might like it better than I did.

I saw this movie a few years ago. It's odd. Sometimes even nasty, especially that part where that grandpa's jerking off in the basement looking at his granddaughter. I didn't expect a lot of the twists though. I remember after I saw this movie I carried around a spoon for about 3 weeks. I couldn't remember what it was called, so we called it the spoon movie. *shrug* Hehehehe. Good if you're in to cheesy horror and want to kill some time. Which is me most of the time. I like it when he sets all those people on fire. It took me a couple of times to watch it to understand what was going on with that little girl though. That was just odd.