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March 01, 2004
Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love
Directed by: Elza Kephart, Starring Anne Day Jones, Karl Gerhardt, and Samantha Slan.
Screenings: 3/8/04 9:45pm at SJSU Morris Dailey Auditorium, and 3/12/04 7:15pm at SJSU University Theater.
“Graveyard Alive” is one of those zombie movies that is either incredibly stylish, witty, and cutting-edge or typical, stereotyped, and poorly made. It’s hard to tell when this low-budget horror film is mocking its cheap predecessors and when it’s falling prey to the same problems.
This is the story of Patsy (Jones), a lonely nurse who is transformed into an undead sex kitten when a zombie patient infects her. She learns to get by in spite of her condition, but is soon spreading the disease and making enemies by coming on to her old sweetheart, Dr. Dox (Gerhardt). Dox is engaged to snotty nurse Goodie Tueschuze (Slan), who veers between the classic cruel popular girl and the virginal horror movie heroine stereotypes.
Shot in stylish black and white Techniscope (a technique used in old 60s westerns and horror movies), “Graveyard Alive” is unquestionably a visual pleasure to watch, particularly for fans of surrealist German cinema. However, for those who expect dialog to match the actor’s mouth movements or small details to be realistic (a Russian diploma in English? doctors who don’t notice their zombie patient has no heartbeat?) it will be a disappointment.
Posted by Ealasaid at March 1, 2004 01:55 PM
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