Man, this is vicious. I’d only seen ARMY OF DARKNESS before this, and so I was expecting a kinda goofy comedy horror thing, but this is something else. It’s basically the first few minutes of AOD told movie-length, and it’s a nail-biting experience. A bunch of kids are spending a weekend (I think) in a cabin, find a tape recorder there, and play what’s on it. Turns out the previous tenants were an archaeologist and his wife who had found “the Book of the Dead” and were translating it. In doing so, they conjured up an ancient evil. But he’d read the translation on the tape recorder, so when the kids play it back…
The acting is about what you’d expect from a bunch of first-timers (even Bruce Campbell hasn’t become “Bruce Campbell” yet), but it’s the direction that grabs you. It’s a non-stop rollercoaster of zooming cameras, sharp edits, and pools of gore. Horror movies don’t get much more fun than this.
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