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March 10, 2004
GraveYard Alive
GRAVEYARD ALIVE: A ZOMBIE NURSE IN LOVE
Directed by: Elza Kephart;
Starring Anne Day Jones, Karl Gerhardt, and Samantha Slan.
Screens: 03/12/04 7:15pm SJSU University Theater.
With images of previous, well-worn comic parodies (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes) and off-the-wall Sci-Fi horror films (Plan 9 from Outer Space), I approached “Graveyard Alive” with a heart filled with hope. I do enjoy a good nuts-o story now and again. Maverick filmmakers have taken this test before and I've been delighted with some of their products. However, I can sum up this flick in a single, painful sentence I uttered when the film hit fin', "I cannot believe I watched it completely through to the credits!"
Nurse Patsy, living in the land of the lonely, falls for a patient, who happens to be a walking, talking zombie. He seems quite normal, except for the scaling face, lobotomized expression, and an appetite for flesh flavored carcass parts. He dies (again?!) at the hands of the janitor (and closet doctor), but not before passing to Patsy the curse of joining the un-dead. She begins to share her condition with everyone including her heartthrob, Dr. Dox, who is engaged to Nurse Goodie Tueschuze. Well, the film goes downhill from there.
The film was shot in 50's black and white dementia and that sort of worked. Almost. But the baggage of poorly protracted acting, a pitifully unsatisfying script, and having to endure some under-the-top direction simply overcomes such slim, one-dimensional praise.
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Posted by W. Fred Crow at March 10, 2004 12:39 PM
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