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The Dark Power (1985)

This is one worth seeing.  It's all over the place in tone and even in the set-up.  At the start it feels like they might be setting this up as a slasher, but the undead that show up never really feel slasher-like.  If anything, I would compare it to Neon Maniacs and I didn't think I'd ever have anything to compare to that movie.

The plot uses the old "ancient Indian burial ground" but the monsters when they appear are so far away from anything feeling "Indian" like that only the most sensitive of people looking to be offended would find anything wrong. 

A group of four good looking college girls, one of them black, one of them extremely racist, move into a house that was built on the previously mentioned Indian burial ground.  The racist girl invited her dickweed brother and his annoying friends to annoy the others when she finds out that she has to live with a black person. 

Then the dead rise because it's that time of year when the dead rise and because somebody removed the protective objects that were stopping that from happening.  There's an odd humor and silly slapstick even while they're killing people that feels out of place.  There's also one great kill where they grab a guy's mouth and stretch it open peeling his face away. 

And in the end the day is saved by ... an elderly Lash LaRue.  if you don't know who that is, he was a cowboy actor in the 40s and 50s famous for using a bullwhip instead of guns, dressing all in black despite being a good guy, and looking a lot like Bogart.  He even gets into a whip fight with one of the undead.  Which is honestly, kinda dull.