13 Nights of Halloween: Night #12: The Gravedancers

Tonight, as promised, I have another movie from After Dark Films
and their 8 Films to Die For that was a part of the annual independent horror film festival Horrorfest in 2006. The movie is "The Gravedancers" and apparently it is the one (of the eight) with stars in it you may have heard of, starting with Dominic Purcell who can be seen currently in "Prison Break" on TV. Up next is Clare Kramer who you Buffy fans will recognise as Glory/Glorificus from season five. Then we have Josie Maran who was in "Van Helsing". Also, Tchéky Karyo, who played the parapsychologist, is a respected and popular actor in French movies.

When I was seeing the commercials for the 8 Films to Die For there were short bits with one or more pale monstrous looking people--not seen together, don't want to give the wrong impression--that immediately grabbed my attention and made me say I have to see the movie that those flashes of scenes are from, have to. Well when I ordered a pair of the eight movies, and I popped the first one in, I found that movie, and its "The Gravedancers". I was not disappointed, those figures are awesome and this movie rocks. I expected something of a different kind of haunting story than what I got, but the actual difference more than made up for it. Enjoy!

Mood: thrilled.
Music: Halloween by Aqua.

13 Nights of Halloween: Night #8: Unrest

Tonight we delve into the horrors from After Dark Films with their
movie "Unrest". After Dark Films is the one responsible for the 8 Films to Die For that was a part of the annual independent horror film festival Horrorfest. Here's a little hint, there's another one of these eight horror movies yet to come. Tonight though, we have something that's a bit different, somewhat unique. That is a really hard thing to find any more, but once you've seen this movie I think you will agree. What is this new thing? Where other recent horror movies involve elements of the current trend toward reality television, this one involves elements of popular crime shows like CSI.

One thing I do want to point out about "Unrest" is something that cropped up in the trailers. The trailer claims that there are real corpses in this movie. I can't say one way or another if there is but it was filmed in a real morgue. I didn't know what to make of this before seeing the movie because sometimes films will do improper things, but rest assured I saw nothing untoward or troubling. The corpse that the story revolves around isn't real because it would take some doing to find the perfect specimen, and one that would look like the live actress in the flashbacks. That out of the way, the movie is interesting, different as I said, and I was greatly pleased with buying it.

Mood: serious.
Music: Hotel California by the Eagles.