In the small town of Santa Loraina, California, the decrepit, long-abandoned Fowler Funeral Home has become a local legend. As the story has it, Zeb Fowler bought the land to start up a ranching business, but something killed off all the cattle. To make ends meet, Zeb became the town mortician, and the Fowler house was turned into a funeral home-complete with a cemetery for a yard. But the strangest part of the story is the Fowler's son Bobby, whose face was so hideously disfigured it was hidden beneath a burial shroud. At age eight, Bobby mysteriously vanished, and ten years later his parents were found murdered-their faces smashed in. Locals believe that Bobby is still alive. Today, the Fowler Funeral Home is the stuff nightmares are made of-backed-up sewage pooling in the yard, a house of filth, decay, coffins, embalming equipment, and a strange black fungus growing on everything-and now the Doyle family is moving in. Having recently lost her husband, Leslie Doyle is relocating her two children, Jonathan and Jamie, to Santa Loraina so she can become the town's new mortician. But the Doyles have no idea of the horror that they're in for. Soon they'll uncover what happened to the Fowlers-what evil inhabits the grounds of their estate and what happens to anyone who steps foot there...
So a family starts all over and buys a spooky old house outside of a spooky old graveyard and the Mom who is played Denise Crosby, yes the TNG Tasha Yar, Denise Crosby and man as she aged poorly; is a budding mortician. So she begins to practice her craft when some spooky old mold, fungus, vine starts taking over the spooky old dead bodies and reanimating them.
Let the spooky old antics begin.
The zombie-fungus-mold-thing-whatever starts infecting the living and a long with the dead it just doesn't look good for the uninfected living, fortunately the zombie infected are completely unaware of just how easily glass breaks, what luck. So the zombies chase the living and they chase them some more ... and more, ok enough chasing already. So with luck our hapless hero's of the living discover what they have to do to defeat the zombie (Not telling you here.) and more importantly they discover what is controlling the zombies, but can they defeat it, can they win over evil or will evil win?
The ending without giving anything away is just as goofy as the rest of the film, but over all I'm seen worse. It's a rent it at best and not a buy it. There are a few good goofy moments and there is a required bad acting and some cheesy dialog but it's not worthy of a place in the collection. Once is enough thank you.
As a review from
HORROR FANATICS said regarding this film ...
"Have you ever watched a movie where it's good most of the way, like you get
into the characters and you enjoy the plot even though it's nothing new. Then
you see the ending and it just completely ruins everything? The film that I am
currently reviewing just so happens to be one of them."
So I'll give it ...
2 stars out of 5, no more, no less.
