Wednesday, September 23, 2009




Picked up the above titles in a threebee entitled ‘The Wes Craven Horror Collection’ & while these flicks are among his less notable efforts, some good cheap thrills nonetheless (however ludicrous). Haitian voodoo during the Duvalier regime (loosely based on the true story of anthropologist Wade Davis’ research into “tetrotodoxin”, a supposed zombie powder); an executed serial killer returns from the grave after getting a real charge out of the electric chair, in which (instead of being fried) being juiced turns him into a being of pure evil energy able to body-swap & travel around through people’s televisions to slaughter more families; and lastly (in a weird urbanized Grimm Fairy tale re-imagining), neighborhood burglars break into the wrong house & have to contend with the twisted slumlord-couple-owners hunting them throughout home, basement mutants moving between walls & saving a trapped virginal princess literally held hostage... Even as disjointed ventures that misfire (a LOT), there’s still considerable satisfaction in the silliness.

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