"Masters of Horror" Dance of the Dead (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.2/10   

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Writers:

Mick Garris (creator)
Richard Christian Matheson (teleplay)

Series de televisión:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

11 noviembre 2005 (Season 1, Episode 3)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

In a post-apocalypse society, the seventeen years old Peggy lives with her protective mother and works in her restaurant...

Plot Keywords:

Necrophilia | Rave Culture | Dumpster | Burned Alive | Sex With The Dead

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Disappointing Episode From Hooper

Cast

Jonathan Tucker	...	Jak
Jessica Lowndes	...	Peggy
Ryan McDonald	...	Boxx
Marilyn Norry	...	Kate
Lucie Guest	...	Celia
Robert Englund	...	The M.C.
Emily Anne Graham	...	Young Peggy (as Emily Graham)
Genevieve Buechner	...	Young Anna
Margot Berner	...	Marie
Sharon Heath	...	Gerri
Don MacKay	...	Steven
Karen Austin	...	Quinn
Erica Carroll	...	Mia
Fraser Aitcheson	...	Giant Door Guy
Julia Barrick Taffe	...	Loopy Girl #1 (as Julia Taffe)

Duración:

59 min

País:

USA | Canada

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Clasificación:

USA:TV-MA | Argentina:16 | Germany:18

Company:

British Columbia Production Tax Credit

Quotes:

M.C.: Management has requested no guns, no meaningful conversations and no self-surgery during the show.

Disappointing Episode From Hooper

Tobe Hooper certainly deserves his reputation as a 'Master Of Horror', especially for his masterpiece, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" of 1974, but also for a few other films, such as "Eaten Alive" (1977) and "Salem's Lot" (1979), that certainly couldn't come up to the brilliance of TCM, but definitely were interesting Horror films. His first contribution to the "Masters Of Horror" series, the third Episode, "Dance Of The Dead", however, turned out to be a minor disappointment. The episode is certainly not entirely bad, it has some atmosphere and is very creepy at times, but it simply lacks an adequate structure of storytelling.

The story, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic America, sometime in the near future when the majority of Americans have died in a terrible war, and the anarchistic conditions only allow the strong to survive. One of the most popular gathering points for the drug addicted youths who rule the streets, is the macabre 'Doom-Room' hosted by an eerie creep named 'The M.C.' (Horror icon Robert Eglund). 16-year-old Peggy (Jessica Lowndes) runs a little restaurant with her protective mother (Marilyn Norry). Peggy is fascinated when a young hoodlum named Jak (Jonathan Tucker) shows up in the restaurant with his no-good friends one day...

The movie has some good moments, Robert Eglund is creepy as hell and Jessica Lowndes as well as Marilyn Norry deliver good performances. I couldn't ignore the fact, however, that director Hooper was obviously more interested to make the episode look as 'cooool' as possible, and focused on effects and visuals rather than on telling the story, which makes the episode look like a 1-hour video clip. Over all I was disappointed with "Dance Of The Dead", although I admit it was macabre and entertaining at times and has some qualities. 5/10