Nasty piece of business from director John McNaughton has atheist scientist Ernst Haeckel(Derek Cecil)finding out that his father is gravely ill, and as he is returning to his home runs into a couple who have had dealings with a man he knows from his past..a necromancer named Montesquino(Jon Polito)who can bring the dead back to life. There's a catch, however, and that is the dead remain in their same condition..and thirst for flesh as all zombies apparently always do.
The couple Haeckel meets on his journey home is an old man named Wolfram(Tom McBeath)and his lovely, very young wife, Elise(Leela Savasta, who has an incredible body). Elise has need of the necromancer as her love and devotion is to one man..her dead husband! So here is Haeckel in amongst all this madness ceaselessly trying to find out how to send the dead back to their graves, but understanding futilely that there is no way.
This yucky MOH offering has some wild sex scenes between Elise,who really lets go and makes the sexual love-making with a corpse erotic in the disgusting sense. There is gut-munching for zombie fans and even a homage to FRANKENSTEIN thanks to an inspired Mick Garris teleplay. Garris uses a narrative device from an old female necromancer telling some poor sad soul(who has returned from his beloved wife's funeral and wishes her resurrected)this tale of what Haeckel experienced. There's an ending only a horror fan could love..it is indeed a unique twist to cap it off.
I'm not real fond of the idea showing sex with corpses, but there is a built in audience for this sort of thing. McNaughton relies on some mediocre filler scenes designed to make a person jump(such as a dead pederast hanging from a noose or a stones falling from a hole in the wall housing rats)which take away from the overall story. This shows signs of a mini-film having to work through a plot rather quickly instead of giving it the proper development it really does need.
The couple Haeckel meets on his journey home is an old man named Wolfram(Tom McBeath)and his lovely, very young wife, Elise(Leela Savasta, who has an incredible body). Elise has need of the necromancer as her love and devotion is to one man..her dead husband! So here is Haeckel in amongst all this madness ceaselessly trying to find out how to send the dead back to their graves, but understanding futilely that there is no way.
This yucky MOH offering has some wild sex scenes between Elise,who really lets go and makes the sexual love-making with a corpse erotic in the disgusting sense. There is gut-munching for zombie fans and even a homage to FRANKENSTEIN thanks to an inspired Mick Garris teleplay. Garris uses a narrative device from an old female necromancer telling some poor sad soul(who has returned from his beloved wife's funeral and wishes her resurrected)this tale of what Haeckel experienced. There's an ending only a horror fan could love..it is indeed a unique twist to cap it off.
I'm not real fond of the idea showing sex with corpses, but there is a built in audience for this sort of thing. McNaughton relies on some mediocre filler scenes designed to make a person jump(such as a dead pederast hanging from a noose or a stones falling from a hole in the wall housing rats)which take away from the overall story. This shows signs of a mini-film having to work through a plot rather quickly instead of giving it the proper development it really does need.