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Four friends get stuck in a small Mexican town
on the first of November - the day of the dead.
This town celebrates the day of the dead a little
differently though. Each year they sacrifice a
Mexican girl to prevent the dead from coming back
to life. This year however, there will be no
female sacrifice and the dead will return from
their graves. Will the four friends be able to
make it out of the town alive before they get
eaten by the zombies?
The Sci-Fi channel gives to us one of the worst
zombie flicks since House of The Dead - All Souls
Day. This could have easily been the sequel to
House Of The Dead (which has now become my perfect
example of how a zombie movie should not be). The
special effects are just as horrible, the plot is
just as nonsense and the directing is just awful.
Another thing that this has in common with House
Of The Dead is the budget. What I mean by that is
that it tries so hard to look high budget but it's
so obvious that they've had to work hard with a
very tight one.
Isn't it funny how Ellie Cornell, the founder of
Mindfire Entertainment, has a role in all of their
movies? She's barely been active since she starred
in Halloween 5 and now all of a sudden she's in
every single low budget zombie flick out there.
Anyway, the acting is overall terrible (with Laura
Harring being the absolute worst). Marisa Ramirez
and Travis Wester do however give us relatively
strong performances which brings the movie up a
notch. Unfortunately, two averagely good actors
can only do so much.
I'm not going to say that I was disappointed in
All Souls Day because I went in with no expectations
at all. I know that most recent zombie movies are
horrible and the fact that the company behind
House Of The Dead was responsible for this as well
didn't exactly help. If you catch it at the Sci-Fi
channel, that's all right but please do your
selves a favour and don't rent this one. Hopefully
Mindfire Entertainment will either start making
better movies or go bankrupt soon.
Surprisingly little zombie gore with a cut out
tongue, a relatively dry impalement, a neck bite,
some severed limbs and very little more. Zombie
flicks should be a whole lot gorier than this!
I'm pretty sure I've heard this exact same score
in a couple of other horror flicks and while it
worked all right the first times, it just feels
very cheap this time. Typical suspense score which
fails to create any kind of atmosphere.
Luckily, All Souls Day isn't a very long movie.
The only thing this has going for it is... well,
I don't know really. It's a terrible movie with
a very dull story and incredibly bad special
effects. If you're a fan of House Of The Dead,
you might find this mildly entertaining but I
highly doubt it since this doesn't even have a
decent amount of action in it to keep one interested.
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